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THE WINCHESTER POWER-HOUSE

Anthony Paice

ISBN 978-1-83574-083-5

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Publication: 28 NOVEMBER 2024
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ISBN: 9781835740835
Price: £16.99

Binding: Hardback
Format: 234 x 156 mm

Extent: 232 pp
Thema: DNC Memoirs

Author location: Surrey
Comparative title: 9781915352439 Overkill or Under-kill

• Set between AD634-1070, The Winchester
Power House presents portraits of the
Winchester bishops down to the Norman
Conquest.
• Born and brought up in Winchester, the
author, from an early age, inculcated its long
historical tradition and importance.
• The second book from Anthony Paice, the
author of Overkill and Under-Kill.

Presenting portraits of the Winchester bishops down to the
Born in Winchester, Anthony Paice was educated at Peter Symonds Norman Conquest, The Winchester Power-House is the first
School and King’s College, London. A long-serving intelligence volume of a study covering the lives of some one hundred
officer, at home and abroad, his account of the 1990 Kuwait crisis holders of the high ecclesiastical office.
and legacy, Overkill or Under-kill, was published in 2023. He had
previously published The Professional Beggar, biography of an Characterised overwhelmingly by benevolence, the pre-
excellent parish priest in 2009. Conquest prelates were at the forefront of the reconversion of
southern Britain to Christianity.

Beyond their spiritual role, however, they also helped to make
Winchester – rather than London or Canterbury –
the powerhouse of the expanding kingdom of Wessex and
eventually of all England; they helped ensure that it
remained the most prized and prestigious diocese in England
down to the Reformation.
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