Julian D. Richards (The University of Yo Department of Archaeology

The Vikings: A Very Short Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Very Short Introductions
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Revised ed
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 175mm x 110mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 146g
• ISBN-13: 9780192806079
• ISBN-10: 0192806076
• Artikelnr.: 14415623

Autorenporträt

Julian Richards is Professor of Archaology 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).

Inhaltsangabe

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