Author: Charles Haliday
Publisher:
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Category : Dublin (Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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Author: Charles Haliday
Publisher:
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Category : Archaeology, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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Author: Charles Haliday
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Category : Dublin (Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Katherine Holman
Publisher: Signal Books
ISBN: 9781904955344
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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"This book reveals another very different side of Viking society. It claims that the Viking legacy was not simply one of 'rape and pillage', but included law and order, agriculture and trade, as well as language and heroic literature. It also provides evidence that the influence of Scandinavians in the British Isles continued well after 1066"--Jacket.

Author: Judith Jesch
Publisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 1843837285
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Ethnographic studies trace the background to and impact of urbanisation and Christianisation, and the development of royal power, which stimulated the transition from the Viking age to the medieval period. Using the evidence of archaeology, poetry, legal texts and annals, this volume investigates the social, economic and symbolic structures of early Scandinavia at the time of the Viking expansion. The contributors provide an outlineethnography, covering dwellings and settlements, kinship and social relations, law, political structures and external relations, rural and urban economies, and the ideology of warfare. The topics are discussed through case-studies, illustrating the changing scholarly interpretations of this formative period in Scandinavian history. By addressing these key research questions, the contributions trace the background to and the impact of urbanisation and Christianisation, and the development of royal power, which stimulated the transition from the Viking age to the medieval period in Scandinavia. JUDITH JESCH is Professor in Viking Studies at the University of Nottingham. Contributors: LENA HOLMQUIST OLAUSSON, BENTE MAGNUS, E. VESTERGAARD, BIRGIT ARRHENIUS, STEFAN BRINK, LISE BENDER JORGENSEN, SVEND NIELSEN, FRANDS HERSCHEND, NIELS LUND, DAVID N. DUMVILLE, JUDITH JESCH, DENNIS H. GREEN.

Author: Benjamin T. Hudson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195162370
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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This book studies two Viking families who appear in the records of the Atlantic littoral as pagan raiders and reinvent themselves as established Christian rulers.

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Category : Antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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Author: Tom Horne
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100053314X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Viking-Age trade, network theory, silver economies, kingdom formation, and the Scandinavian raiding and settlement of Ireland and Britain are all popular subjects. However, few have looked for possible connections between these phenomena, something this book suggests were closely related. By allying Blomkvist’s network-kingdoms with Sindbæk’s nodal market-networks, it is argued that the political and economic character of Viking-Age Britain and Ireland – my ‘Insular Scandinavia’ – is best understood if Dublin and Jórvík are seen as being established as nodes of a market-based network-kingdom. Based on a dataset relating to the then developing bullion economies of the central and eastern Scandinavian worlds and southern Scandinavia in particular, it is argued that war-band leaders from, or familiar with, ‘Danish’ markets like Hedeby and Kaupang transposed to Insular Scandinavia the concept of polities based on establishment of markets and the protection of routeways between them. Using this book, readers can think of interlinked Dublin and Great Army elites creating an Insular version of a Danish-style nodal market kingdom based on commerce and silver currencies. A Viking Market Kingdom in Ireland and Britain will help specialist researchers and students of Viking archaeology make connections between southern Scandinavia and the market economy of the Uí Ímair (‘descendants of Ívarr’) operating out of the twin nodes of Dublin and Jórvík via the initial establishment of Hiberno-Scandinavian longphuirt and the related winter-camps of the Viking Great Army.

Author: Allen Mawer
Publisher:
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Category : Vikings
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Author: A. Mawer
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113

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This is a concise but comprehensive history of the Viking era. The Vikings, one of Europe's most mystical and fascinating civilizations, have intrigued the West for centuries. Aside from being perceived as a strikingly distinct culture among its European counterparts, what is known and unknown about the Vikings' achievements has added an intriguing aura to the historical narrative. Were they ferocious and terrifying warriors? Were they the first Europeans to set foot in North America? Some legends appear to be true, while others appear to be just that: legends.