Название: The Vikings (Peoples of the Ancient World)
Автор: Neil Price, Ben Raffield
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2024
Страниц: 241
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 14.5 MB

The Vikings provides a concise but comprehensive introduction to the complex world of the early medieval Scandinavians. In the space of less than 300 years, from the mid-eighth to the mid-eleventh centuries CE, people from what are now Norway, Sweden, and Denmark left their homelands in unprecedented numbers to travel across the Eurasian world. Over the last half-century, archaeology and its related disciplines have radically altered our understanding of this period. The Vikings explores why we now perceive them as a cosmopolitan mix of traders and warriors, craftsworkers and poets, explorers, and settlers. It details how, over the course of the Viking Age, their small-scale rural, tribal societies gradually became urbanised monarchies firmly emplaced on the stage of literate, Christian Europe. In the process, they transformed the cultures of the North, created the modern Nordic nation-states, and left a far-flung diaspora with legacies that still resonate today.

Автор: Robert Ferguson
Название: The Hammer and the Cross, A New History of the Vikings
Издательство: London: Penguin
Год: 2010
Язык: English
ISBN: 978-0713997880
Формат: pdf
Размер: 23,4 mb
Кол-во страниц: 464

For those living outside Scandinavia, the Viking Age effectively began in 793 with an attack on the monastery at Lindisfarne, a characteristically violent harbinger of what was in store for Britain and much of Europe for the next 300 years. This is Robert Ferguson's account of those tumultuous days.