The Baltic will decide the course of the West in the coming years.These nine borderlands are not only the historical battleground of Russian aggression; they are also a factory of ideas for how to revive Europe. Shaped by the past o...Lasīt vairāk
The Baltic will decide the course of the West in the coming years.These nine borderlands are not only the historical battleground of Russian aggression; they are also a factory of ideas for how to revive Europe. Shaped by the past o...Lasīt vairāk
Analyzes the lives, roles, and experiences of Viking women, highlighting their societal contributions through interdisciplinary perspectives.This edited volume brings together an international group of scholars to address the lives, ro...Lasīt vairāk
For many years, historians have not given due attention to the relations between the Nordic countries and Israel. As a consequence, the existing body of research on this topic is almost entirely conducted by scholars from the social sciences, espe...Lasīt vairāk
Forgotten Vikings is a chronological overview book of the Viking Age (793-1066 AD) and quite a lot of history on either side of that arbitrary date. Arbitrary? This book aims to explore the phenomenon of the Vikings from new angles, familiar to aca...Lasīt vairāk
Factology: Vikings is a fact-packed introduction to the Age of the Vikings, including their culture, mythology, battle tactics and lasting impact on the history of Europe.Did you know that the Vikings werent just one people?...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the relationship between Vikings, Rus and nomadic (mostly Turkic) steppe dwellers during the course of the Viking Age (c. 7501050) in a geographical area stretching from Eastern Scandinavia through the Kievan Rus, Byzantium,...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the intellectual grounds of Scandinavianist ideology and its political development into a national unification movement. Denmark, Norway and Sweden were nearly annihilated during the Napoleonic Wars. The lesson learned was that...Lasīt vairāk
This volume offers an interdisciplinary and geographically wide-ranging approach to understanding the emergence of towns and commerce in Viking-age Scandinavia and their eventual demise by the end of the period. It tracks the diverging characteristi...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 25-Jan-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009298056)
The Viking Age, from c.750 to 1050 CE, was an era of major social change in Scandinavia. By the end of this period of sweeping transformation, Scandinavia, once a pagan periphery, had been firmly integrated into occidental Europe. Archaeological rema...Lasīt vairāk
Defining the Identity of the Younger Europe launches an eye-opening journey into emerging cultures and civilizations of the Younger Europe - Byzantine-Slavic and Scandinavian territories - from the fall of Constantinople (1453) to the dawn of the...Lasīt vairāk
The viking berserkr is an iconic warrior normally associated with violent fits of temper and the notorious berserksgangr or berserker frenzy. This book challenges the orthodox view that these men went berserk in the modern English...Lasīt vairāk
This critical and empirically based volume examines the multiple existing Nordic models, providing analytically innovative attention to the multitude of circulating ideas, images and experiences referred to as Nordic. It addresses related...Lasīt vairāk
Follow an epic story of the Viking Age that traces the historical trail of an ancient piece of jewelry found in a Viking grave in England to its origins thousands of miles east in India.An acclaimed bioarchaeologist, Catrine Jarman has...Lasīt vairāk
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An acclaimed bioarchaeologist traces the path of an ancient piece of jewelry found in a Viking grave in England back to eighth-century Baghdad and India, explaining that the Vikings route may have been far more varied than previously known....Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the relationship between Vikings, Rus and nomadic (mostly Turkic) steppe dwellers during the course of the Viking Age (c. 7501050) in a geographical area stretching from Eastern Scandinavia through the Kievan Rus, Byzantium,...Lasīt vairāk
Follow an epic story of the Viking Age that traces the historical trail of an ancient piece of jewelry found in a Viking grave in England to its origins thousands of miles east in India.An acclaimed bioarchaeologist, Catrine Jarman has...Lasīt vairāk
Ever since Tolkiens famous lecture in 1936, it has been generally accepted that the poem Beowulf is a fantasy, and of no use as a witness to real history. This book challenges that view, and argues that the poem provides a plausible, det...Lasīt vairāk
This wide-ranging study offers a new understanding of Old Norse kinship in which the individual self was expanded to encompass its kin. Family interactions in Old Norse myth and legend were often fraught, competitive, even violent as well as...Lasīt vairāk
