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Viking Camps Case Studies and Comparisons

Viking Camps Case Studies and Comparisons

This book is the coming together of several disciplines under the thematic umbrella of Viking Camps and provides the very latest research presented by the leading researchers in the field making it the most comprehensive compilation of the phenomenon of Viking camps to date. Compiling the current state of research on encampments across the Viking world and their impact on their surroundings this volume provides an all-encompassing analysis of their characteristics—functions form inner workings and interaction with the landscape and the local population. It initiates a wider discussion on the features and functions that define them making it possible to identify and understand new sites also broadening the geographical scope. Sites in Ireland England Sweden Frankia and Iberia are presented and explored allowing the reader to understand the camp phenomenon from a comparative more inclusive perspective. The combination of geographically bound case-studies and in-depth analyses of specific themes such as economy and religion bring together an abundance of methodologies and approaches. The volume introduces new interdisciplinary approaches to define and identify Viking encampment sites combining archaeology historical documents metal detecting landscape analysis and toponymic research. It builds the methodological foundations for future research on Viking camps the armies inhabiting them and their interaction with the surrounding world. Viking Camps contributes to a better understanding of the functioning of Viking expeditionary groups both on campaign and during the early stages of settlement and will be of use to researchers in Viking archaeology history and Viking Studies. | Viking Camps Case Studies and Comparisons

GBP 130.00
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Vikings Across Boundaries Viking-Age Transformations – Volume II

Vikings Across Boundaries Viking-Age Transformations – Volume II

This volume explores the changes that occurred during the Viking Age as Scandinavian societies fell in line with the larger forces that dominated the Insular world and Continental Europe absorbing the powerful symbiosis of Christianity and monarchy adapting to the idea of royal lineage and supremacy and developing a buzzing urbanism coupled with large-scale trade networks. Presenting research on the grand context of the Viking Age alongside localised studies it contributes to the furthering of collaborations between local and ‘outsider’ research on the Viking Age. Through a diversity of approaches on the Viking homelands and the wider world of the Vikings it offers studies of a range of phenomena including urban and rural settlements; continuity in the use of places as well as new types of places specific to the Viking Age; the social significance of change; the construction and maintenance of social identity both within the ‘homelands’ and across large territories; ethnicity; and ideas of identity and the creation and recreation of identity both at home and abroad. As such it will appeal to historians and archaeologists with interests in Viking-Age studies as well as scholars of Scandinavian studies. | Vikings Across Boundaries Viking-Age Transformations – Volume II

GBP 38.99
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Viking Silver Hoards and Containers The Archaeological and Historical Context of Viking-Age Silver Coin Deposits in the Baltic c. 800–1050

Viking Silver Hoards and Containers The Archaeological and Historical Context of Viking-Age Silver Coin Deposits in the Baltic c. 800–1050

It is widely accepted that the Viking Age (c. 800–1050) stimulated the development of long-distance regional and local trade and exchange networks. The clearest archaeological evidence for these contacts is mainly in the form of silver artefacts predominantly found in hoards in Northern and Central Europe – the Baltic zone. However beyond occasional national- or regional-level research there have been no attempts at a historically guided comparative archaeological survey of the Baltic zone as a whole. By investigating silver hoards and the context of their deposition Viking Silver Hoards and Containers seeks to understand the variety of functions performed by hoards; the differences in function within regions; the hoards’ relationship with trade; and the nature and function of emporia. It also examines the extent to which the findings mesh with literary evidence and the nature of the different societies benefiting from the influx of silver in the Viking Age. Crucially the book features a catalogue which provides a thorough overview and update of Baltic-zone hoards. Viking Silver Hoards and Containers is intended for use by students of and specialists in early medieval Viking and Slavic history and archaeology. However it will also be a useful teaching resource for other general courses in archaeology anthropology and material culture numismatics economic history religious studies GIS and statistics. | Viking Silver Hoards and Containers The Archaeological and Historical Context of Viking-Age Silver Coin Deposits in the Baltic c. 800–1050

GBP 39.99
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Viking-Age Transformations Trade Craft and Resources in Western Scandinavia

Viking-Age Transformations Trade Craft and Resources in Western Scandinavia

The Viking Age was a period of profound change in Scandinavia. As kingdoms were established Christianity became the encompassing ideological and cosmological framework and towns were formed. This book examines a central backdrop to these changes: the economic transformation of West Scandinavia. With a focus on the development of intensive and organized use of woodlands and alpine regions and domestic raw materials together with the increasing standardization of products intended for long-distance trade the volume sheds light on the emergence of a strong interconnectedness between remote rural areas and central markets. Viking-Age Transformations explores the connection between legal and economic practice as the rural economy and monetary system developed in conjunction with nascent state power and the legal system. Thematically the book is organized into sections addressing the nature and extent of trade in both marginal and centralized areas; production and the social legal and economic aspects of exploiting natural resources and distributing products; and the various markets and sites of trade and consumption. A theoretically informed and empirically grounded collection that reveals the manner in which relationships of production and consumption transformed Scandinavian society with their influence on the legal and fiscal division of the landscape this volume will appeal to scholars of archaeology the history of trade and Viking studies. | Viking-Age Transformations Trade Craft and Resources in Western Scandinavia

GBP 42.99
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Norse Greenland: Viking Peasants in the Arctic

Norse Greenland: Viking Peasants in the Arctic

How could a community of 2000–3000 Viking peasants survive in Arctic Greenland for 430 years (ca. 985–1415) and why did they finally disappear? European agriculture in an Arctic environment encountered serious ecological challenges. The Norse peasants faced these challenges by adapting agricultural practices they had learned from the Atlantic and North Sea coast of Norway. Norse Greenland was the stepping stone for the Europeans who first discovered America and settled briefly in Newfoundland ca. AD 1000. The community had a global significance which surpassed its modest size. In the last decades scholars have been nearly unanimous in emphasising that long-term climatic and environmental changes created a situation where Norse agriculture was no longer sustainable and the community was ruined. A secondary hypothesis has focused on ethnic confrontations between Norse peasants and Inuit hunters. In the last decades ethnic violence has been on the rise in Eastern Europe the Middle East and parts of Africa. In some cases it has degenerated into ethnic cleansing. This has strengthened the interest in ethnic violence in past societies. Challenging traditional hypotheses is a source of progress in all science. The present book does this on the basis of relevant written and archaeological material respecting the methodology of both sciences. | Norse Greenland: Viking Peasants in the Arctic

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Viking-Age Trade Silver Slaves and Gotland

Viking-Age Trade Silver Slaves and Gotland

That there was an influx of silver dirhams from the Muslim world into eastern and northern Europe in the ninth and tenth centuries is well known as is the fact that the largest concentration of hoards is on the Baltic island of Gotland. Recent discoveries have shown that dirhams were reaching the British Isles too. What brought the dirhams to northern Europe in such large numbers? The fur trade has been proposed as one driver for transactions but the slave trade offers another – complementary – explanation. This volume does not offer a comprehensive delineation of the hoard finds or a full answer to the question of what brought the silver north. But it highlights the trade in slaves as driving exchanges on a trans-continental scale. By their very nature the nexuses were complex mutable and unclear even to contemporaries and they have eluded modern scholarship. Contributions to this volume shed light on processes and key places: the mints of Central Asia; the chronology of the inflows of dirhams to Rus and northern Europe; the reasons why silver was deposited in the ground and why so much ended up on Gotland; the functioning of networks – perhaps comparable to the twenty-first-century drug trade; slave-trading in the British Isles; and the stimulus and additional networks that the Vikings brought into play. This combination of general surveys presentations of fresh evidence and regional case studies sets Gotland and the early medieval slave trade in a firmer framework than has been available before. | Viking-Age Trade Silver Slaves and Gotland

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In Search of Vikings Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Scandinavian Heritage of North-West England

In Search of Vikings Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Scandinavian Heritage of North-West England

The Viking Age lasted a little over three centuries but has left a lasting legacy across Europe. These dynamic warrior-traders from Scandinavia who fought and interacted with peoples as far apart as North America Russia and Central Asia are some of the most recognizable historical figures in the western world. In the modern imagination they represent ruthlessness heroism adventurousness and a unique prestige embellished by the wondrous tales and poetry of the sagas. Yet the sum of evidence for the Viking presence is far less clear than their reputation implies. In Search of Vikings presents a collection of papers from experts in a broad range of disciplines including history archaeology genetics and linguistics to provide a detailed understanding of the Vikings in peace and in war. This book focuses on one particularly exciting area of the Viking world namely the north-west region of England where they are known to have settled in large numbers. North-west England was the crossroads between Ireland Scotland Wales the Isle of Man and the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. It was a battleground for distant powers and dynasties and its Irish Sea coastline created opportunities for trading and settlement. Silver hoards burials and Old Norse place-names attest to the Viking presence and Scandinavian DNA is detectable amongst the modern population. The 12 integrated studies in this book are designed to reinvigorate the search for Vikings in this crucial region and to provide must-reading for anyone interested in Viking history. | In Search of Vikings Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Scandinavian Heritage of North-West England

GBP 175.00
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Vikings of the Steppe Scandinavians Rus’ and the Turkic World (c. 750–1050)

Vikings of the Steppe Scandinavians Rus’ and the Turkic World (c. 750–1050)

This book explores the relationship between Vikings Rus’ and nomadic (mostly Turkic) steppe dwellers during the course of the Viking Age (c. 750–1050) in a geographical area stretching from Eastern Scandinavia through the Kievan Rus’ Byzantium the Islamic world to the Western Eurasian steppes. The primary focus is the steppe influence on the development of Scandinavian-Rus’ culture. It illustrates the effects of Turkic (nomadic) cultures on the evolving Scandinavian-Rus’ communities in their military technology and tactics as well as in everyday customs ritual traditions and religious perceptions whilst paying attention to the politico-commercial necessities and possible communication channels tying these two cultures normally considered to be distinct together. The arguments are supported by a multi-disciplinary analysis of diverse historical and archaeological materials occasionally supplemented with linguistic evidence. The result is a comprehensive evaluation of the relations of the Scandinavians active in the ‘East’ with Turkic groups and brings (the so far neglected) steppes into Viking studies in general. The book will fill a serious scholarly gap in the field of Viking studies and will be read by both academics and students interested in the archaeological and historical sources concerned with the traditions of the ‘Eastern Vikings’. | Vikings of the Steppe Scandinavians Rus’ and the Turkic World (c. 750–1050)

GBP 130.00
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Routledge Revivals: Medieval Scandinavia (1993) An Encyclopedia

Routledge Revivals: Medieval Scandinavia (1993) An Encyclopedia

First published in 1993 Medieval Scandinavia: An Encyclopedia covers every aspect of the region during the Middle Ages including rulers and saints overviews of the countries religion education politics and law culture and material life history literature and art. Written by a team of expert contributors the encyclopedia offers those who lack command of the various Scandinavian languages a basic tool for the study of Medieval Scandinavia from roughly the Migration Period to the Reformation. With full-page maps useful supplementary photos cross-references and a comprehensive index this work will be a valuable and absorbing volume for students of the Norse sagas the Viking age and Old English history and literature and for anyone interested in the cultural and historical heritage of Scandinavia. | Routledge Revivals: Medieval Scandinavia (1993) An Encyclopedia

GBP 54.99
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Contesting the Middle Ages Debates that are Changing our Narrative of Medieval History

Contesting the Middle Ages Debates that are Changing our Narrative of Medieval History

Contesting the Middle Ages is a thorough exploration of recent arguments surrounding nine hotly debated topics: the decline and fall of Rome the Viking invasions the Crusades the persecution of minorities sexuality in the Middle Ages women within medieval society intellectual and environmental history the Black Death and lastly the waning of the Middle Ages. The historiography of the Middle Ages a term in itself controversial amongst medieval historians has been continuously debated and rewritten for centuries. In each chapter John Aberth sets out key historiographical debates in an engaging and informative way encouraging students to consider the process of writing about history and prompting them to ask questions even of already thoroughly debated subjects such as why the Roman Empire fell or what significance the Black Death had both in the late Middle Ages and beyond. Sparking discussion and inspiring examination of the past and its ongoing significance in modern life Contesting the Middle Ages is essential reading for students of medieval history and historiography. | Contesting the Middle Ages Debates that are Changing our Narrative of Medieval History

GBP 36.99
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The North Atlantic Frontier of Medieval Europe Vikings and Celts

The North Atlantic Frontier of Medieval Europe Vikings and Celts

Discussion of medieval European expansion tends to focus on expansion eastward and the crusades. The selection of studies reprinted here however focuses on the other end of Eurasia where dwelled the warlike Celts and beyond whom lay the north seas and the awesome Atlantic Ocean formidable obstacles to expansion westward. This volume looks first at the legacy of the Viking expansion which had briefly created a network stretching across the sea from Britain and Ireland to North America and had demonstrated that the Atlantic could be crossed and land reached. The next sections deal with the English expansion in the western and northern British Isles. In the 12th century the Normans began the process of subjugating the Celts thus inaugurating for the English an experience which was to prove crucial when colonizing the Americas in the 17th century. Medieval Ireland in particular served as a laboratory for the development of imperial institutions attitudes and ideologies that shaped the creation of the British Empire and served as a staging area for further expansion westward. | The North Atlantic Frontier of Medieval Europe Vikings and Celts

GBP 48.99
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Ancestor Worship and the Elite in Late Iron Age Scandinavia A Grave Matter

Ancestor Worship and the Elite in Late Iron Age Scandinavia A Grave Matter

Ancestor worship is often assumed by contemporary European audiences to be an outdated and primitive tradition with little relevance to our societies past and present. This book questions that assumption and seeks to determine whether ancestor ideology was an integral part of religion in Viking Age and early medieval Scandinavia. The concept is examined from a broad socio-anthropological perspective which is used to structure a set of case studies which analyse the cults of specific individuals in Old Norse literature. The situation of gods in Old Norse religion has been almost exclusively addressed in isolation from these socio-anthropological perspectives. The public gravemound cults of deceased rulers are discussed conventionally as cases of sacral kingship and more recently religious ruler ideology; both are seen as having divine associations in Old Norse scholarship. Building on the anthropological framework this study introduces the concept of ‘superior ancestors’ employed in social anthropology to denote a form of political ancestor worship used to regulate social structure deliberately. It suggests that Old Norse ruler ideology was based on conventional and widely recognised religious practices revolving around kinship and ancestors and that the gods were perceived as human ancestors belonging to elite families. | Ancestor Worship and the Elite in Late Iron Age Scandinavia A Grave Matter

GBP 38.99
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The Vikings

The Vikings

The Vikings provides a concise but comprehensive introduction to the complex world of the early medieval Scandinavians. In the space of less than 300 years from the mid-eighth to the mid-eleventh centuries CE people from what are now Norway Sweden and Denmark left their homelands in unprecedented numbers to travel across the Eurasian world. Over the last half-century archaeology and its related disciplines have radically altered our understanding of this period. The Vikings explores why we now perceive them as a cosmopolitan mix of traders and warriors craftsworkers and poets explorers and settlers. It details how over the course of the Viking Age their small-scale rural tribal societies gradually became urbanised monarchies firmly emplaced on the stage of literate Christian Europe. In the process they transformed the cultures of the North created the modern Nordic nation-states and left a far-flung diaspora with legacies that still resonate today. Written by leading experts in the period and exploring the society economy identity and world-views of the early medieval Scandinavian peoples and their unique religious beliefs that are still of enduring interest a millennium later this book presents students with an unrivalled guide through this widely studied and fascinating subject revealing the fundamental impacts of the Vikings in shaping the later course of European history.

GBP 31.99
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