Danes in Wessex, the Scandinavian impact on southern England c.800 - c.1100
- Submitting institution
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University of Winchester
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 28RL2
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Oxbow Books
- ISBN
- 9781782979319
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Danes in Wessex is an approximately 164,000-word multi-author volume. Lavelle organised the day conference on which the volume is based and, as the principal editor, commissioned additional papers to ensure the coherence of the theme of a thirteen-chapter volume which brings together the historical and archaeological evidence from the early Middle Ages. Lavelle and his fellow editor, a colleague in Winchester University’s archaeology department, Simon Roffey, worked together to ensure that the volume has a coherence and relates to issues of geographical identity arising from scholarship on early medieval identity in Britain and Europe. The editors provide 4,000-word introductory chapter to the volume, addressing the paradoxes and problems of addressing the Wessex region in ‘Danish’ terms (in comparison to the ‘normal’ consideration of ‘Danelaw’ identities), and, in an 18,000-word jointly-authored chapter (chapter 2), they offer a more detailed consideration of textual markers of identity and their negotiation. As the historian in a cross-disciplinary chapter, Lavelle is the principal author of the first two main sections, on ‘Terminology and Identity’ (7,600 words total), which analyse a range of primary source texts in detail. Lavelle also had a key role in the discussion of allegiance further on in that chapter. He is also the sole author of a 15,000-word chapter on the context of the peace agreement of 993/994, written specially for the volume and linking to themes associated with a number of chapters in the volume.
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- Non-English
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