1. 493: British Triumph at Mount Badon or Braydon, Wiltshire; 2. 537: Arthur's death at Camlan or Castlesteads, Cumbria; 3. 573: Legends of Merlin and Arfderydd or Arthuret, Cumbria; 4. C. 590: Picts at Gwen Ystrad or the River Winster, Cumbria; 5. 603: Carnage at Degsastan by Wester Dawyck, Borders; 6. 613: Chester and the Massacre of Welsh Monks; 7. 633: Hatfield Chase and British Victory at Doncaster; 8. 634: Hefenfeld and British Defeat in Northumberland; 9. 642: Maserfelth and King Oswald's Death at Forden, Powys; 10. 655: Treasure Lost on the Uinued or River Went, Yorkshire; 11. 844: Vikings, ‘Alluthèria’ and a Bridge at Bishop Auckland; 12. 893: Vikings Liquidated at Buttington, Powys; 13. 937: ‘Brunanburh’ and English Triumph at Lanchester, County Durham; Index.
Correctly locates for the first time conflicts from Mount Badon to Brunanburh
Andrew Breeze, FSA, FRHistS, has taught since 1987 at the University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
Senchus Blog -- Review
"This book offers a good overview of the extensive and sometimes
conflicting scholarship on the thirteen conflicts, it presents
Breeze’s own insights, based on previous articles and extensive
research, and is thus a stimulating read irrespective of whether or
not one agrees with Breeze’s conclusions. — Nicole Meier, Archiv
für 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 today’s 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
493–937, 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 specialists—historians, archaeologists, geographers, should
pay attention to. — Stephen Morillo, Wabash College, The Medieval
Review (2021)
This collection focuses on thirteen battles from an onomastic
perspective. At the outset, Breeze suggests that the
identifications might be used in three main ways. First, to acquire
a better historical understanding of the battles. Second, to seek
archaeological traces of the battles. Third, to offer an onomastic
methodology for use in other instances. ‘This book is about war,
and specifically about early battlefields in Britain’. Rather, it
is about the etymology of names, the links between names and
places, and the identification of the places at which battles
occurred. — Thomas Pickles, Northern History.
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