The defence of Wessex : the Burghal Hidage and Anglo-Saxon fortifications
After defeating Guthrum's Vikings at Edington, King Alfred initiated a great programme of building to defend southern England from Viking attack. This book is a comprehensive analysis of the Burghal Hidage, the early 10th-century document which gives details of these extraordinary fortifications.
Print Book, English, 1996
Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1996
xx, 256 s. : ill.
9780719032189, 0719032180
1141697729
Part 1 Introduction, David Hill and Alexander R. Rumble. Part 2 The development of Burghal Hidage studies - a bibliographical review, David Hill. Part 3 An edition and translation of the Burghal Hidage, together with Recension C of the Tribal Hidage, Alexander R. Rumble. Part 4 The manuscript evidence - the known manuscript of the Burghal Hidage, Alexander R. Rumble; BL Cotton MS. Otho B. xi - a supplementary note, Patrick Wormald. Part 5 The Burghal Hidage as a document: diplomatic sub-sections, Alexander R. Rumble; the nature of the figures, David Hill; the West Saxon hidage and the "appendix", Nicholas P. Brooks; the calculation and the purpose of the Burghal Hidage, David Hill. Part 6 The Burghal Hidage place-names: a linguistic analysis of the place-names of the Burghal Hidage, John McN. Dodgson; a collation of the Burghal Hidage place-name forms, Alexander R. Rumble. Part 7 The administrative background to the Burghal Hidage, Nicholas P. Brooks. Part 8 The fortifications and their shires, David A. Hinton. Part 9 Mints, burhs and the Grately code, cap. 14.2, Mark Blackburn; gazetteer of Burghal Hidage sites, David Hill. Appendices: OU wealstilling, John McN. Dodgson; OE waru, Alexander R. Rumble; the Tribal Hidage - an annotated bibliography, Alexander R. Rumble; the historical context of the Tribal Hidage, N.J. Higham; the County Hidage, David Austin.