Название: Viking-Age Trade: Silver, Slaves and Gotland
Автор: Jacek Gruszczynski
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: 1138293946
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 274
Размер: 14,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

That there was an influx of silver dirhams from the Muslim world into eastern and northern Europe in the ninth and tenth centuries is well known, as is the fact that the largest concentration of hoards is on the Baltic island of Gotland. Recent discoveries have shown that dirhams were reaching the British Isles, too. What brought the dirhams to northern Europe in such large numbers? The fur trade has been proposed as one driver for transactions, but the slave trade offers another – complementary – explanation.

Название: Viking Warriors
Автор: Коллектив
Издательство: Independently published
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB, AZW3, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 185
Размер: 1,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

University Press returns with three short and captivating books in one volume – a brief history of three Viking Warriors: Ragnar Lothbrok, Björn Ironside, and Ivar the Boneless.

Название: Monarchs and Hydrarchs: The Conceptual Development of Viking Activity across the Frankish Realm
Автор: Christian Cooijmans
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: 036720214X
Год: 2020
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 292
Размер: 47,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

As the politico-economic exploits of vikings in and around the Frankish realm remain, to a considerable extent, obscured by the constraints of a fragmentary and biased corpus of (near)contemporary evidence, this volume approaches the available interdisciplinary data on a cumulative and conceptual level, allowing overall spatiotemporal patterns of viking activity to be detected and defined – and thereby challenging the notion that these movements were capricious, haphazard, and gratuitous in character.