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...position in the axis of a communication system of Roman roads, Winchester can certainly be judged an important Roman country town. Winchester's prominence in British history grew after the Anglo-Saxon invasions as Winchester became the capital city of the Kings of Wessex, and, in effect, the capital of England. The legends of King Arthur and his Round Table Knights are associated with sixth-century Winchester, and in the tenth century, Winchester prospered as a continentally known precinct of learning and education under Alfred the Great...
...grassy, sheep-grazing county of "Wessex" - England's Dorsetshire -lives Bathsheba Everdene (Julie Christie), a typical calamity-prone Hardy heroine. Willful, flirtatious, she is pursued by men with names as solid as a Chippendale sideboard. They are Gabriel Oak (Alan Bates), an impoverished sheepman; Boldwood (Peter Finch), a strange, eroded landowner of whom people whisper, warns Bathsheba's servant girl, that "he has no passionate parts"; and Troy (Terence Stamp), a seducer-soldier who has his way with any lass who meets his come-hither eyes...
...Brixton, England." On the other hand, Burke's-which sends the Queen a free copy of the $32.34 book specially bound in her favorite blue goatskin-devotes 45 pages of minute type to the royal family's doings since the days of its ancestor Egbert, King of Wessex (d. 839), who was one of England's first kings and grandfather of Alfred the Great...
...thee to Gloucester, Essex. Do you to Wessex, Exeter...
...Great, the strategist who let the peasant woman's cakes burn, is the latest hero to receive the full Duggan treatment. Historical Novelist Duggan pays his respects to legend, but he is more concerned with the larger issues behind King Alfred's precarious defense of 9th century Wessex against the pagan Danes. Alfred never crushed them. But he repeatedly checked and harried them until more and more Danes turned from unprofitable raiding to settle on the land, and from their war gods to the gentle Christ. Alfred's message, and presumably its relevance for today, is that...