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In the time of the great Anglo-Saxon kings like Alfred and Athelstan, Aethelred and Edmund Ironside, what was warfare really like how were the armies organized, how and why did they fight, how were the warriors armed and trained, and what was the Anglo-Saxon experience of war? As Paul Hill demonstrates in this compelling new study, documentary records and the growing body of archaeological evidence allows these questions to be answered with more authority than ever before. His broad, detailed and graphic account of the conduct of war in the Anglo-Saxon world in the unstable, violent centuries before the Norman Conquest will be illuminating reading for anyone who wants to learn about this key stage of medieval history.The role of violence and war in Anglo-Saxon society is explored, in particular the parts played by the king and the noblemen, and the means by which, in times of danger, the men of the fyrd were summoned to fight. The controversial subject of the Anglo-Saxon use of cavalry is also explored. Land and naval warfare are central sections of Paul Hill s book, but he also covers the politics and diplomacy of warfare the conduct of negotiations, the taking of hostages and the use of treachery.The weapons and armor of the Anglo-Saxons are described the spears, the scramsaxes, axes, bows, swords, helmets, shields and mail that were employed in the close-quarter fighting of the day. Among the most valuable sections of the study are those dealing, in vivid detail, with actual experience of battle and siege with the brutal reality of combat as it is revealed by campaigns against the Danes, in the battles of Ashdown, Maldon and Stamford Bridge, and sieges at Reading and Rochester.

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Table of Contents Appendix Rulers of the English c 8711066 Western - photo 1
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Appendix
Rulers of the English, c. 8711066
Western Mercia

Burgred, c. 852c. 874. Driven out by the Danes.

Ceolwulf II, c. 874c. 880. English puppet ruler appointed by the Danes.

Ealdorman thelred, the Lord of the Mercians, c. 880911.

thelfld, the Lady of the Mercians, 91118. In conjunction with Edward the Elder, her brother.

Eastern Mercia

Controlled by the Danes and variously settled between c. 877 and the early tenth century. Incorporated the leading jarls from the Danish Five Boroughs of Lincoln, Nottingham, Stamford, Leicester and Derby.

East Anglia

Edmund (St), 85569.

thelred and Oswald, c. 875. Possibly Danish puppets.

Guthrum (baptised as Athelstan by Alfred the Great), c. 88090.

Eohric the Dane, c. 890c. 902. Died at the Battle of the Holme.

thelwold, son of thelred I of Wessex, c. 902. Died at the Battle of the Holme.

Kingdom taken over by Edward the Elder in 917.

Viking Kingdom of York

Halfdan I, c. 875c. 877.

Guthfrith I, c. 883c. 895.

Sigfrith, fl. c. 895.

Cnut, fl. c. 895.

thelwold, son of thelred I of Wessex, c. 900c. 902.

Eowils and Halfdan II, c. 90210. Both killed at the Battle of Tettenhall. Aldred of Bamburh, c. 913c. 919.

Ragnald I, son of Sihtric, king of Dublin, c. 91920.

Sihtric II (the one eyed), 9207.

Olaf I Cuaran, 927.

Guthfrith II, c. 927. Driven out by King Athelstan. d. 934.

King Athelstan, king of the English, 92739.

Olaf II, 93941.

Olaf I Cuarn (again), 9414.

Ragnald II, 9434.

King Edmund, king of the English, 9446.

King Eadred, king of the English, 9467.

Eric Bloodaxe, 9478.

King Eadred, king of the English (again), 94850.

Olaf I Cuaran (once again), 9502.

Eric Bloodaxe (again), 9524. Killed at Stainmore.

Thereafter, in varying degrees, the kingdom of York was absorbed into the Kingdom of the English.

The Kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons (c. 880927)

The combination of Western English Mercia and the ancient Kingdom of

Wessex, this kingdom was the vision of Alfred the Great and the beginning of what would become the kingdom of England.

Alfred the Great, 871900.

Edward the Elder, 90024.

lfweard, 924. Son of Edward the Elder, recognised in Wessex. d. 924.

Athelstan, 92439. Son of Edward the Elder, recognised in Mercia and then in the whole kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons after lfweards death. In 927 the expanded kingdom under Athelstan became known as the Kingdom of the English.

The Kingdom of the English, 9271066

Athelstan, 92739.

Edmund I, 93946.

Eadred, 94655.

Eadwig, 9559.

Edgar the Peaceable, 95975. After ruling north of the Thames as king of the Mercians and Northumbrians from 955.

Edward the Martyr, 9759.

thelred II Unrd, 9791016. With brief interlude under Swein Forkbeard the Dane in 1014.

Edmund II Ironside, son of thelred II, 1016.

Cnut, 101635.

Harold I Harefoot, 103740. Having ruled only north of the Thames until 1037.

Harthacnut, 10402. After a brief nominal recognition south of the Thames, 10357.

Edward the Confessor, 104266. Son of thelred II and Emma of Normandy.

Harold II Godwinson, 1066.

William I, 106687.

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