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Danevirke: construction phases With all the evidence measured, examined and weighed, it is now time to put raiding into the narrative of early medieval warfare, where we now know it belongs. Many saintsâ lives, chronicles and histories contain references to âbattlesâ, but this is possibly because decisive set-piece actions were of more significance to chroniclers than small-scale forays. Although there…
With the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the latter fifth century A.D. the rule of empire vanished in northern Europe, and with it for a time an integrated market economy in the Mediterranean, North Africa, and Asia. The absence of the legions to provide security in the countryside…
Date: August 717â15 August 718. Location: on the Sea of Marmara, modern Istanbul. Forces Engaged: Byzantine: unknown. Commander: Emperor Leo the Isaurian. Muslim: 210,000. Commander: Maslama. Importance: Defeat of Muslim forces in their first serious attempt to overpower the Byzantine Empire led to another seven centuries of Christian power in…
Danelaw encompassed the areas of northeast England where Danish customs had a strong political and cultural influence throughout much of the early Middle Ages. The area included Yorkshire (southern Northumbria), East Anglia, and the Five Boroughs, named for its main centers of settlement: Lincoln, Stamford, Nottingham, Leicester, and Derby. All…
Theodoric entering Rome. Theodericâs empire at the height of its power in 523, with territory marked in pink ruled directly by Theoderic and stippled areas under his hegemony. One of the greatest of the barbarian kings and the greatest of the Gothic kings, Theodoric the Great, or the Amal as…
Two Saxon warriors â realistic portrayal of the sort of warrior farmers who entered the former Roman province of Britannia in numbers, in the fifth century AD. âSaxon warriors, southern England, 6th century CEâ, Angus McBride It is obvious that the sequence pagan EnglandâAugustine of CanterburyâChristian England is hardly an…
A contemporary portrayal of King Edgar in the New Minster Charter. The events of 1006 were typical of the calamity that befell England between 980 and 1016: a generation of escalating misery during which time Viking armies roamed practically unopposed across the rolling hills of southern England, looting and burning…
Danevirke: construction phases With all the evidence measured, examined and weighed, it is now time…
655 Battle of Winwaed: Penda of Mercia was defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria. Although the…
Dark Age weaponry is the subject of several books currently in print. The subject has…
The Frankish caballarii or protoknights had been modeled directly on the klibanarioi of the Byzantine…
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