The Battle of Brunanburh: A Casebook (Liverpool Historical Casebooks) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0859898636 ISBN 13: 9780859898638

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 2011

Synopsis

This casebook fills a major gap in our cultural knowledge of the Middle Ages. It gathers together for the first time the key historical and literary primary sources for the study of the Battle of Brunanburh (AD 937); a key moment in the history of the British Isles. Produced by an international team of experts, the volume offers the sources in their language of origin - Old English, Old Norse, Welsh, Irish, Latin, Anglo-Norman, Middle English, Early Modern English - with facing-page translations and explanatory notes. Many of the sources are translated here for the first time.In addition, the volume includes a substantial introduction from Michael Livingston and ten wide-ranging essays that provide cultural contexts and lay to rest many of the most controversial questions about the conflict - including the key matter of where the battle likely took place, identified here . The essays show the lasting significance of this nation-defining battle - both in terms of history and in terms of its impact across more than a thousand years of literature.

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Livingston is assistant professor of English at The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina.

Review:

"... a massive and admirable volume on the Battle of Brunanburh. It is designed as a casebook - a teaching tool and a scholarly examination in one. It is as definitive as it is possible to be about the battle and succeeds admirable as a case study of how to examine an obscure medieval battle."--Journal of Military History

"This will be the definitive text."--Fortean Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0859898636
• ISBN 13: 9780859898638
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 458
• Editor: Livingston Michael