British Battles 493937: Mount Badon to Brunanburh

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Correctly locates for the first time conflicts from Mount Badon to Brunanburh.

Correctly locating for the first time conflicts from Mount Badon to Brunanburh, British Battles493937revolutionizes our understanding of early British history.

British Battles 493937is one of the most revolutionary books ever published on war in Britain. It deals with thirteen conflicts, either locating them correctly or explaining some of their aspects which have puzzled historians. They include the following: Mount Badon (493) at Braydon, Wiltshire; battles of the British hero Arthur (the legendary 'King Arthur') (5367) in southern Scotland or the borders; 'Degsastan' (603) at Dawyck, on the River Tweed, Scotland; Maserfelth (642) at Forden, on the Welsh border; the Viking victory of 'Alluthlia' (844) at Bishop Auckland, near Durham; and the English triumph of Brunanburh (937) was at Lanchester, also near Durham.

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"This book offers a good overview of the extensive and sometimes conflicting scholarship on the thirteen conflicts, it presents Breezes own insights, based on previous articles and extensive research, and is thus a stimulating read irrespective of whether or not one agrees with Breezes conclusions. Nicole Meier, Archiv fr das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, 258, no. 173 (2021)"

"A book that anyone with an interest in locating the lost battlefields of early medieval Britain will find enlightening and thought-provoking. It provides the reader a good measure of background information, while placing the author's own contribution in a broader context, as well as signposting additional resources and alternative theories. Tim Clarkson, https://senchus.wordpress.com/2020/05/28/british-battles-493-937/, accessed 3 June, 2020"

Here Andrew Breeze combines his expertise in toponymy with a lively engagement in previous scholarship to locate early British battles, some involving or not involving King Arthur, others less familiar. His results cannot fail to set the archaeologists off in search of material evidence. Brian Murdoch, Professor Emeritus, University of Stirling, UK

Andrew Breeze is a veteran scholar of early medieval British history, with an encyclopedic knowledge of the sources. He is also willing to make daring connections, to illuminate what were long thought of as the darkest of ages. Every page of this rewarding book offers fresh insights, and opens the way to new questions, new framings, of that story. Philip Jenkins, Distinguished Professor of History, Institute for Studies of Religion, Baylor University, USA

Dr. Andrew Breeze, among the foremost of todays place-name scholars, has written a lucid and learned series of studies providing rich insight into British onomastics and military history. J. R. Hall, Professor of English Emeritus, University of Mississippi, USA

Andrew Breeze is a polymath and a pioneer. In British Battles 493937, he uses his immense learning in Latin, Celtic and Germanic to reach brilliant solutions to longstanding historical problems. His book shows how the combination of onomastics, topography and textual criticism can transform our understanding of early medieval history and literature. Leonard Neidorf, Professor of English, Nanjing University, China

There is much worthwhile analysis here, leading to conclusions that various specialistshistorians, archaeologists, geographers, should pay attention to. Stephen Morillo, Wabash College, The Medieval Review (2021)

Author Bio

Andrew Breeze, FSA, FRHistS, has taught since 1987 at the University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.