Angelo Forte (University of Aberdeen), Richard Oram (University of Stirling), Frederik Pedersen (University of Aberdeen)

Viking Empires

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Produktbeschreibung

Viking Empires, first published in 2005, is a definitive history of the Viking World and the first study of the global implications of its expansion, integration, and reorientation. From the first contact in the 790s the book traces the political, military, social, cultural and religious history of the Viking Age from Iceland to Lithuania.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 462
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 1070g
• ISBN-13: 9780521829922
• ISBN-10: 0521829925
• Artikelnr.: 12949851

Autorenporträt

Angelo Forte is Chair of Commercial Law at the University of Aberdeen and a specialist in maritime law.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Viking raiders, Scandinavian Kingdoms and the wider world; 2. The Beginnings; 3. First contact: England and the continent; 4. Ireland and Scotland; 5. A Water World; 6. Conquest and integration, c. 9501260; 7. The second Viking age in England, c. 9701066; 8. The Irish Sea; 9. Scotland and the Vikings; 10. Orkney and Shetland; 11. Crossing the North Atlantic; 12. Sailing the North Atlantic; 13. Scandinavia and European integration: reform and rebirth; 14. Conclusion.

Rezensionen

'... this bold new history of the Vikings.' Scotland on Sunday