The Vikings
A Very Short Introduction
(Sprache: Englisch)
The Viking reputation is of bloodthirsty seafaring warriors, yet they were also traders, settlers, and farmers, who have been variously perceived as poets, explorers, democrats, and statesmen.
Julian Richards uses the latest archaeological evidence to...
Julian Richards uses the latest archaeological evidence to...
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The Viking reputation is of bloodthirsty seafaring warriors, yet they were also traders, settlers, and farmers, who have been variously perceived as poets, explorers, democrats, and statesmen.
Julian Richards uses the latest archaeological evidence to reveal the whole Viking world, and examines their legacy - from medieval sagas to 19th Century nationalism.
Julian Richards uses the latest archaeological evidence to reveal the whole Viking world, and examines their legacy - from medieval sagas to 19th Century nationalism.
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The Viking reputation is of bloodthirsty seafaring warriors, repeatedly plundering the British Isles and the North Atlantic throughout the early Middle Ages. Yet Vikings were also traders, settlers, and farmers, with a complex artistic and linguistic culture, whose expansion overseas led them to cross the Atlantic for the first time in European history. Highlighting the latest archaeological evidence, Julian Richards reveals the whole Viking world: their history, society and culture, and their expansion overseas for trade, colonization, and plunder. We also look at the Viking identity, through their artistic expression, rune stones, their ships, and their religion. The Viking story is also brought up to date, by examining their legacy from the medieval Icelandic sagas to 19th Century nationalism, Wagner, and the Nazis.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Vikings “
- List of illustrations
- 1: Vikings then and now
- 2: Early Scandinavian kingdoms
- 3: Pagans and Christians
- 4: Changes in the countryside
- 5: Towns and trade
- 6: Across the ocean: ships and seafaring
- 7: Expansion overseas
- 8: Vikings in England
- 9: Raiders and settlers around the Irish Sea
- 10: Vikings and Picts: genocide or assimilation?
- 11: Landnám in the North Atlantic
- 12: The edge of the world: Greenland and North America
- 13: Re-inventing the Vikings
- Further reading
- Index
Autoren-Porträt von Julian D. Richards
Julian Richards is Professor of Archaeology at the University of York, and co-director of the Centre for Medieval Studies. He specialises in the archaeology of Anglo-Saxon and Viking Age England, and has directed several excavations of Viking settlements, including the only Viking cremation cemetery in the British Isles. Previous publications include Viking Age England (Tempus, 2000).Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Julian D. Richards
- 2005, 176 Seiten, Maße: 17,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0192806076
- ISBN-13: 9780192806079
Sprache:
Englisch
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