Viking Britain A History
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Author |
: Thomas J. T. Williams |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0008171939 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780008171933 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Viking Britain by : Thomas J. T. Williams
A new narrative history of the Viking Age, interwoven with exploration of the physical remains and landscapes that the Vikings fashioned and walked: their rune-stones and ship burials, settlements and battlefields.
Author |
: Hazel Maskell |
Publisher |
: History of Britain |
Total Pages |
: 64 |
Release |
: 2015-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1409599663 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781409599661 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Anglo-Saxons and Vikings by : Hazel Maskell
Library Friendly Edition of original- A fascinating account of how Britain emerged from the Dark Ages, from bloodshed on the battlefield and kings in crisis, to monks and murder.
Author |
: Thomas Williams |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages |
: 452 |
Release |
: 2017-09-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780008171940 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0008171947 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Viking Britain: A History by : Thomas Williams
A new narrative history of the Viking Age, interwoven with exploration of the physical remains and landscapes that the Vikings fashioned and walked: their rune-stones and ship burials, settlements and battlefields.
Author |
: Henry Loyn |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 141 |
Release |
: 1995-02-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780631187110 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0631187111 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Vikings in Britain by : Henry Loyn
Drawing from recent archaeological and linguistic evidence, as well as more traditional literary and narrative sources, the author distinguishes between the initial phase of migrations in the ninth and tenth centuries, and the secondary period of settlement up to c. 1100 AD. He emphasizes, too, the differences in nature and intensity of the Viking impact on the societies that were slowly developing into the historic kingdoms of England and Scotland, and the more complex political structures of Wales and Ireland. Throughout the book, the effects of the Scandinavian invasions on Britain are set within the wider European context.
Author |
: Max Adams |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 437 |
Release |
: 2018-08-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781681778440 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1681778440 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Viking Wars by : Max Adams
A history of Britain in the violent and unruly era between the first Scandinavian raids in 789 and the final expulsion of the Vikings from York in 954. In 865, a great Viking army landed in East Anglia, precipitating a series of wars that would last until the middle of the following century. It was in this time of crisis that the modern kingdoms of Britain were born. In their responses to the Viking threat, these kingdoms forged their identities as hybrid cultures: vibrant and entrepreneurial peoples adapting to instability and opportunity. Traditionally, Alfred the Great is cast as the central player in the story of Viking Age Britain. But Max Adams, while stressing the genius of Alfred as war leader, law-giver, and forger of the English nation, has a more nuanced narrative approach to this conventional version of history. The Britain encountered by the Scandinavians of the ninth and tenth centuries was one of regional diversity and self-conscious cultural identities, depicted in glorious narrative fashion in The Viking Wars.
Author |
: Cat Jarman |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 2022-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781643138701 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1643138707 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis River Kings by : Cat Jarman
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 used cutting-edge forensic techniques to spark her investigation into the history of the Vikings who came to rest in British soil. By examining teeth that are now over one thousand years old, she can determine childhood diet—and thereby where a person was likely born. With radiocarbon dating, she can ascertain a death-date down to the range of a few years. And her research offers enlightening new visions of the roles of women and children in Viking culture. Three years ago, a Carnelian bead came into her temporary possession. River Kings sees her trace the path of this ancient piece of jewelry back to eighth-century Baghdad and India, discovering along the way that the Vikings’ route was far more varied than we might think—that with them came people from the Middle East, not just Scandinavia, and that the reason for this unexpected integration between the Eastern and Western worlds may well have been a slave trade running through the Silk Road, all the way to Britain. Told as a riveting history of the Vikings and the methods we use to understand them, this is a major reassessment of the fierce, often-mythologized voyagers of the North—and of the global medieval world as we know it.
Author |
: Bryan Sykes |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 343 |
Release |
: 2007-12-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393079784 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393079783 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland by : Bryan Sykes
From the best-selling author of The Seven Daughters of Eve, a perfect book for anyone interested in the genetic history of Britain, Ireland, and America. One of the world's leading geneticists, Bryan Sykes has helped thousands find their ancestry in the British Isles. Saxons, Vikings, and Celts, which resulted from a systematic ten-year DNA survey of more than 10,000 volunteers, traces the true genetic makeup of the British Isles and its descendants, taking readers from the Pontnewydd cave in North Wales to the resting place of the Red Lady of Paviland and the tomb of King Arthur. This illuminating guide provides a much-needed introduction to the genetic history of the people of the British Isles and their descendants throughout the world.
Author |
: Katherine Holman |
Publisher |
: Signal Books |
Total Pages |
: 300 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1904955347 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781904955344 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Northern Conquest by : Katherine Holman
"This book reveals another very different side of Viking society. It claims that the Viking legacy was not simply one of 'rape and pillage', but included law and order, agriculture and trade, as well as language and heroic literature. It also provides evidence that the influence of Scandinavians in the British Isles continued well after 1066"--Jacket.
Author |
: W. B. Bartlett |
Publisher |
: Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages |
: 612 |
Release |
: 2019-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781445665955 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1445665956 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Vikings by : W. B. Bartlett
A comprehensive new history of the infamous Vikings. Those men and women raided and traded their way into history whilst at the same time helping to build new nations in Scandinavia and beyond.
Author |
: Anders Winroth |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 327 |
Release |
: 2014-09-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400851904 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400851904 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Age of the Vikings by : Anders Winroth
A major reassessment of the vikings and their legacy The Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by myth. It is true that they pillaged, looted, and enslaved. But they also settled peacefully and traveled far from their homelands in swift and sturdy ships to explore. The Age of the Vikings tells the full story of this exciting period in history. Drawing on a wealth of written, visual, and archaeological evidence, Anders Winroth captures the innovation and pure daring of the Vikings without glossing over their destructive heritage. He not only explains the Viking attacks, but also looks at Viking endeavors in commerce, politics, discovery, and colonization, and reveals how Viking arts, literature, and religious thought evolved in ways unequaled in the rest of Europe. The Age of the Vikings sheds new light on the complex society, culture, and legacy of these legendary seafarers.