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Author : Jon Vidar Sigurdsson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501760483
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scandinavia in the Age of Vikings written by Jon Vidar Sigurdsson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Scandinavia in the Age of Vikings, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson returns to the Viking homeland, Scandinavia, highlighting such key aspects of Viking life as power and politics, social and kinship networks, gifts and feasting, religious beliefs, women's roles, social classes, and the Viking economy, which included farming, iron mining and metalworking, and trade. Drawing of the latest archeological research and on literary sources, namely the sagas, Sigurðsson depicts a complex and surprisingly peaceful society that belies the popular image of Norsemen as bloodthirsty barbarians. Instead, Vikings often acted out power struggles symbolically, with local chieftains competing with each other through displays of wealth in the form of great feasts and gifts, rather than arms. At home, conspicuous consumption was a Viking leader's most important virtue; the brutality associated with them was largely wreaked abroad. Sigurðsson's engaging history of the Vikings at home begins by highlighting political developments in the region, detailing how Danish kings assumed ascendency over the region and the ways in which Viking friendship reinforced regional peace. Scandinavia in the Age of Vikings then discusses the importance of religion, first pagan and (beginning around 1000 A.D.) Christianity; the central role that women played in politics and war; and how the enormous wealth brought back to Scandinavia affected the social fabric—shedding new light on Viking society.

Author : Henry Goddard Leach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American-Scandinavian Review written by Henry Goddard Leach and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 14, no. 5 (May 1926) is special issue devoted to John Ericsson.

Author : Berkshire Athenaeum and Museum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quarterly Bulletin written by Berkshire Athenaeum and Museum and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 864 pages
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Download or read book The American Year Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Knut Gjerset
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1276 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Norwegian People written by Knut Gjerset and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Viki McCabe
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1317767217
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Event Cognition written by Viki McCabe and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series of volumes is dedicated to furthering the development of psychology as a branch of ecological science. In its broadest sense, ecology is a multidisciplinary approach to the study of living systems, their environ m ents, and the reciprocity that has evolved between the two. The purpose of this series is to form a useful collection, a resource, for people who wish to learn about ecological psychology and for those who wish to contribute to its development. The series will include original research, collected papers, reports of conferences and symposia, theoretical monographs, technical handbooks, and works from the many disciplines relevant to ecological psychology.

Author : Charlotte A. Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780750914833
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology of Disease written by Charlotte A. Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text shows how scientific and archaeological techniques can be used to identify the common illnesses and injuries from which humans suffered in antiquity. Charlotte Roberts and Keith Manchester study evidence gleaned from written records and works of art as well as from ancient human remains, and they combine a clinical interpretation of prevalent diseases with a graphic description of thier social, economic, and cultural consequences. This edition includes case studies from around the world and gives an account of the rapid technical advances that have dramatically increased our knowledge of illness in the distant past.

Author : Brent Dean Robbins
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349953563
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Medicalized Body and Anesthetic Culture written by Brent Dean Robbins and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how modern medicine’s mechanistic conception of the body has become a defense mechanism to cope with death anxiety. Robbins draws from research on the phenomenology of the body, the history of cadaver dissection, and empirical research in terror management theory to highlight how medical culture operates as an agent which promotes anesthetic consciousness as a habit of perception. In short, modern medicine’s comportment toward the cadaver promotes the suppression of the memory of the person who donated their body. This suppression of the memorial body comes at the price of concealing the lived, experiential body of patients in medical practice. Robbins argues that this style of coping has influenced Western culture and has helped to foster maladaptive patterns of perception associated with experiential avoidance, diminished empathy, death denial, and the dysregulation of emotion.

Author : John Castell Hopkins
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1046 pages
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Download or read book The Canadian Annual Review of Public Affairs written by John Castell Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sabrina P. Ramet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139487507
Total Pages : 601 pages
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Download or read book Central and Southeast European Politics since 1989 written by Sabrina P. Ramet and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-18 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only textbook to provide a complete introduction to post-1989 Central and Southeast European politics, this dynamic volume provides a comprehensive account of the collapse of communism and the massive transformation that the region has witnessed. It brings together 23 leading specialists to trace the course of the dramatic changes accompanying democratization. The text provides country-by-country coverage, identifying common themes and enabling students to see which are shared throughout the area, giving them a sense of its unity and comparability whilst strengthening understanding around its many different trajectories. The dual thematic focus on democratization and Europeanization running through the text also helps to reinforce this learning process. Each chapter contains a factual overview to give the reader context concerning the region which will be useful for specialists and newcomers to the subject alike.