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Born in Winchester, Anthony Paice was educated at Peter Symonds School and King%u2019s College, London. A long-serving intelligence officer, at home and abroad, his account of the 1990 Kuwait crisis and legacy, Overkill or Under-kill, was published in 2023. He had previously published The Professional Beggar, biography of an excellent parish priest in 2009.Publication: 28th NOVEMBER2024ISBN: 9781835740835Price: %u00a316.99Binding: HardbackFormat: 234 x 156 mmExtent: 232 ppThema: DNC MemoirsAuthor location: SurreyComparative title: 9781915352439 Overkill or Under-kill%u2022 Set between AD634-1070, The Winchester Power House presents portraits of the Winchester bishops down to the Norman Conquest. %u2022 Born and brought up in Winchester, the author, from an early age, inculcated its long historical tradition and importance. %u2022 The second book from Anthony Paice, the author of Overkill and Under-Kill. Presenting portraits of the Winchester bishops down to the Norman Conquest, The Winchester Power-House is the first volume of a study covering the lives of some one hundred holders of the high ecclesiastical office.Characterised overwhelmingly by benevolence, the preConquest prelates were at the forefront of the reconversion of southern Britain to Christianity.Beyond their spiritual role, however, they also helped to make Winchester %u2013 rather than London or Canterbury %u2013the powerhouse of the expanding kingdom of Wessex and eventually of all England; they helped ensure that itremained the most prized and prestigious diocese in England down to the Reformation.As key counsellors to the Wessex kings, as reformers, even warriors on occasion, these men exerted a strong influence on the introduction of successive Saxon legal codes and judicial process. Indeed, during the development of an embryonic royal chancery in the early 11th century, the bishop was invariably the choice for chancellor, the king%u2019s chief minister. It is no accident that the last bishop, Stigand, was both bishop of Winchester and archbishop of Canterbury.ISBN 978-1-83574-083-59 7 8 1 8 3 5 7 4 0 8 3 5THE WINCHESTER POWER-HOUSEAnthony PaiceSales: Star Book Sales LLP T: 01404 515050E: enquiries@starbooksales.comOrders: Troubador Publishing Tradeorders@troubador.co.uk0116 279 2299Prices and specifications are provisional and are subject to change without notice. 19/06/2024