Richard Abels (born 1951) is an American educator, historian, and professor emeritus at the United States Naval Academy. Abels is a specialist in the military...
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politician from New Hampshire Richard F. Abel (1933–2022), brigadier general in the United States Air Force Richard Abels (born 1951), American historian...
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Colonel Richard Francis Abel Smith DL (11 October 1933 – 23 December 2004) was a British Army officer. He was the son of Colonel Sir Henry Abel Smith (1900–1993)...
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Historian Richard Abels sees Alfred's educational and military reforms as complementary. Restoring religion and learning in Wessex, Abels contends, was...
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p. 431. Nelson 2004. Abels 1998, p. 31. Stenton 1971, p. 244. Swanton 2000, p. 64. Abels 1998, pp. 89–94. Miller 2004. Abels 1998, p. 67 n. 57. Nelson...
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King Alfred the Great. p. 21 Abels. Alfred the Great: War. Kingship, and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England. p. 113 Richard Abels. "Alfred the Great, the micel...
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464–67. Abels 1998, p. 62. Abels 1998, pp. 62, 67. Abels 1998, p. 67, n. 57. Kirby 2000, pp. 164–65. Nelson 1997, pp. 144–46; Nelson 2004a. Abels 1998,...
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of the tribal divisions of the Mercians. According to the historian Richard Abels, Eadburh was a descendant of King Cenwulf of Mercia. The scholar, Ford...
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The English defeated renewed Viking attacks in 893 to 896, and in Richard Abels' view, the glory belonged to Æthelred and Edward rather than Alfred...
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Lapidge, p. 322; Nelson, p. 60 Nelson, pp. 47, 59–62 Abels, pp. 48, 97 n.27, 272 Abels, Richard (1998). Alfred the Great: War, Kingship and Culture in...
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particularly the sons or brothers of the reigning king. According to historian Richard Abels, "King Alfred transformed the very principle of royal succession. Before...
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reject it as a useful concept for understanding society. Historian Richard Abels notes that "Western civilization and world civilization textbooks now...
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Abels, Richard (1998). Alfred the Great: War, Kingship and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England. Harlow, UK: Longman. p. 129. ISBN 0-582-04047-7. Abels, pp...
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Richard Abel Musgrave (December 14, 1910 – January 15, 2007) was an American economist of German heritage. His most cited work is The Theory of Public...
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Richard Abel (born 1955) is a Canadian instrumental musician and pianist. He is one of the best selling Canadian instrumental artists of all time. He has...
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244. Keynes and Lapidge 1983, p. 68. Miller 2004; Abels 1998, pp. 70–71. Firth 2024, pp. 179–181. Abels 1998, pp. 75, 85; Nelson 2004. Keynes and Lapidge...
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both kings of Mercia, Ealhswith was probably a member of this family. Richard Abels goes further, stating that she was descended from King Coenwulf. This...
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Richard Owen Abel (born 1941) is a professor of Comparative Literature in the University of Michigan, United States. He has presented several anthologies...
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Modern historians also disagree about her status. Simon Keynes and Richard Abels believe that leading figures in Wessex were unwilling to accept Æthelstan...
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Britain, England, Scotland and Wales, c.500–c.1050, and in the comment by Richard Abels in 1998 that the greatness of Alfred the Great "was the greatness of...
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Robertson 1925, p. 11. Trousdale 2013, p. 288. Abels 1988, pp. 81–87; Wormald 1999, p. 12; Robertson 1925, p. 13. Abels 1988, pp. 84, 87. Williams 1999, pp. 94–95...
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Edward's mistress is accepted by some historians, such as Simon Keynes and Richard Abels, but Yorke and Æthelstan's biographer, Sarah Foot, disagree, arguing...
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their campaigns against the Vikings. Æthelred's descent is unknown. Richard Abels describes him as "somewhat of a mysterious character", who may have...
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Problem of Translation.” In The Normans and Their Adversaries at War, ed. Richard Abels and Bernard Bachrach, 167–84. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2001. 天正拾九年六月廿三日付...
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Stevenson's edition. Boston: Ginn and Company. p. 1. Abels, Alfred the Great, p. 328. Richard Abels (Alfred the Great, p. 328) describes Keynes and Lapidge's...
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will, which probably dates to the 880s. One of Alfred's biographers, Richard Abels, describes the text as "rather tendentious", and another, Alfred P....
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had been in the west country defending Devonshire, and in the view of Richard Abels: "King Alfred had little to do directly with the great victories enjoyed...
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Verne and Adolphe d'Ennery in the second half of the nineteenth century. Richard Abel describes the film as belonging to the féerie genre, as does Frank Kessler...
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Abel Gance (French: [gɑ̃s]; born Abel Eugène Alexandre Péréthon; 25 October 1889 – 10 November 1981) was a French film director, producer, writer and...
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separate political entity within the kingdom of Wessex. According to Richard Abels in his biography of Alfred the Great, the region gained much of whatever...
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