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Author : Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson
Publisher : Allen & Unwin Australia
ISBN 13 : 9780049400498
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Viking Road to Byzantium written by Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson and published by Allen & Unwin Australia. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H.R. Ellis Davidson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000921271
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Viking Road to Byzantium written by H.R. Ellis Davidson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-10 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Viking Road to Byzantium (1976) is a major study of the Vikings who travelled east, based on the evidence of written sources and archaeology. Clues to the movements of the eastern Vikings may be found not only in Icelandic skaldic verse and runic inscriptions on memorial stones, but in such unexpected places as a Romanian chalk quarry near the Black Sea, among the carved stones of ancient Thrace and in Constantinople itself, the Miklagard of northern literature.
Author : H. R. Davidson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780874718348
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Viking Road to Byzantium written by H. R. Davidson and published by . This book was released on 1976-06-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H.R. Ellis Davidson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000921239
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Viking Road to Byzantium written by H.R. Ellis Davidson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-10 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Viking Road to Byzantium (1976) is a major study of the Vikings who travelled east, based on the evidence of written sources and archaeology. Clues to the movements of the eastern Vikings may be found not only in Icelandic skaldic verse and runic inscriptions on memorial stones, but in such unexpected places as a Romanian chalk quarry near the Black Sea, among the carved stones of ancient Thrace and in Constantinople itself, the Miklagard of northern literature.
Author : Russell Andrew McDonald
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442601485
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Viking Age written by Russell Andrew McDonald and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uitgebreide geschiedenis van het volk van de Noormannen, die de zeeën bevoeren en in de Middeleeuwen West-Europa plunderden en deels overheersten.
Author : Jonathan Clements
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1472107756
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Brief History of the Vikings written by Jonathan Clements and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'From the Fury of the Northmen deliver us, O Lord.' Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, the Vikings surged from their Scandinavian homeland to trade, raid and invade along the coasts of Europe. Their influence and expeditions extended from Newfoundland to Baghdad, their battles were as far-flung as Africa and the Arctic. But were they great seafarers or desperate outcasts, noble heathens or oafish pirates, the last pagans or the first of the modern Europeans? This concise study puts medieval chronicles, Norse sagas and Muslim accounts alongside more recent research into ritual magic, genetic profiling and climatology. It includes biographical sketches of some of the most famous Vikings, from Erik Bloodaxe to Saint Olaf, and King Canute to Leif the Lucky. It explains why the Danish king Harald Bluetooth lent his name to a twenty-first century wireless technology; which future saint laughed as she buried foreign ambassadors alive; why so many Icelandic settlers had Irish names; and how the last Viking colony was destroyed by English raiders. Extending beyond the traditional 'Viking age' of most books, A Brief History of the Vikings places sudden Scandinavian population movement in a wider historical context. It presents a balanced appraisal of these infamous sea kings, explaining both their swift expansion and its supposed halt. Supposed because, ultimately, the Vikings didn't disappear: they turned into us.
Author : B. Gasparov
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520079458
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)
Download or read book Slavic Cultures in the Middle Ages written by B. Gasparov and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acceptance of Christianity in the tenth century is the most significant cultural event in the history of modern Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. A vast reservoir of cultural concepts, expressions, and iconographic images has developed within the Eastern Orthodox tradition, and now Slavic specialists, theologians, historians, and literary scholars can turn to a collection which examines the majestic sweep of a thousand years of Slavic Christianity. This three-volume collection brings together essays from two international conferences. The present volume explores the history and influence of Christianization from the tenth to the seventeenth century. Volume II will examine cultural history from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, and Volume III will examine literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The acceptance of Christianity in the tenth century is the most significant cultural event in the history of modern Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. A vast reservoir of cultural concepts, expressions, and iconographic images has developed within the Eastern Orthodox tradition, and now Slavic specialists, theologians, historians, and literary scholars can turn to a collection which examines the majestic sweep of a thousand years of Slavic Christianity. This three-volume collection brings together essays from two international conferences. The present volume explores the history and influence of Christianization from the tenth to the seventeenth century. Volume II will examine cultural history from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, and Volume III will examine literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Author : Angus A. Somerville
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442605227
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Vikings and Their Age written by Angus A. Somerville and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Vikings and Their Age offers a quick overview of the chronology and major themes of the Viking period. Written in an accessible manner, it also provides a great introduction to some of the most interesting and significant figures in Viking lore, such as Harald Bluetooth, Eirik the Red, Leif Eiriksson, and Gudrid Thorbjarnardottir, a female Viking traveller. Insights and evidence from such diverse disciplines as archaeology, philology, linguistics, and genetics are provided.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004499245
Total Pages : 591 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Companion to Byzantium and the West, 900-1204 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the complex history of contact and exchange between Byzantium and the Latin West over a formative period of more than three hundred years, with a focus on the political, ecclesiastical and cultural spheres.
Author : Marianne Vedeler
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1782972161
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)
Download or read book Silk for the Vikings written by Marianne Vedeler and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The analysis of silk is a fascinating topic for research in itself but here, focusing on the 9th and 10th centuries, Marianne Vedeler takes a closer look at the trade routes and the organization of production, trade and consumption of silk during the Viking Age. Beginning with a presentation of the silk finds in the Oseberg burial, the richest Viking burial find ever discovered, the other silk finds from high status graves in Scandinavia are discussed along with an introduction to the techniques used to produce raw silk and fabrics. Later chapters concentrate on trade and exchange, considering the role of silk items both as trade objects and precious gifts, and in the light of coin finds. The main trade routes of silk to Scandinavia along the Russian rivers, and comparable Russian finds are described and the production and regulation of silk in Persia, early Islamic production areas and the Byzantine Empire discussed. The final chapter considers silk as a social actor in various contexts in Viking societies compared to the Christian west.
