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Writing the Welsh borderlands in Anglo-Saxon England /

An ambitious book which argues that the March of Wales, as it existed as a legally defined space in the period after 1066, had a long pre-history as a place of encounter and interchange from the early Anglo-Saxon period. It is argued that this frontier space was not inevitably a zone of ethnic confl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brady, Lindy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
Colección:Artes liberales (Manchester, England)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Writing the Welsh borderlands in Anglo-Saxon England; Contents; List of maps ; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: the Dunsæte Agreement and daily life in the Welsh borderlands; 2 Penda of Mercia and the Welsh borderlands in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica; 3 The Welsh borderlands in the Lives of St Guthlac; 4 The 'dark Welsh' as slaves and slave raiders in Exeter Book riddles 52 and 72; 5 The Welsh borderlands in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; 6 The transformation of the borderlands outlaw in the eleventh century; 7 Conclusion: Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon in the Welsh borderlands.