Hannah Whittock

The Viking Blitzkrieg

AD 789-1098

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If the Viking Wars had not taken place, would there have been a united England in the tenth century? Martyn Whittock believes not, arguing that without them there would have been no rise of the Godwin family and their conflict with Edward the Confessor, no Norman connection, no Norman Conquest and no Domesday Book. All of these features of English history were the products, or by-products, of these conflicts and the threat of Scandinavian attack. The wars and responses to them accelerated economic growth; stimulated state formation and an assertive sense of an English national identity; created a hybrid Anglo-Scandinavian culture that spread… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Whittock, Martyn

ISBN: 978-0-7524-9726-6
EAN: 9780752497266
Produktnummer: 15139520
Verlag: The History Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'123 KB

Über den Autor

HANNAH WHITTOCK read Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic at Cambridge University and completed her Masters there in Anglo-Saxon history in 2012. She now works for the Devolved Welsh Government. Her published works include papers on the Annexation of Bath into Wessex and the Anglo-Saxon frontier of north-western Wiltshire (2012).