The Age of the Vikings (eBook)

Anders Winroth (Autor)

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2014
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-5190-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Anders Winroth is the Forst Family Professor of History at Yale University.

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A major reassessment of the vikings and their legacyThe 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.

Autor

Anders Winroth is the Birgit Baldwin Professor of History at Yale University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.9.2014
• Zusatzinfo: 15 color illus. 30 halftones. 2 maps.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Æthelstan • Agriculture (Chinese mythology) • Ansgar • archaeology • Arm ring • Baltic Sea • Birka • Bread • Brooch • burial • Byrhtnoth • Cemetery • Central Asia • Christianity • Circumlocution • Cnut the Great • Continental Europe • courtesy • danegeld • Danes (Germanic tribe) • Danevirke • Dorestad • Eastern Europe • einar • Eric Bloodaxe • Erik Bloodaxe (hacker) • Eriksson • Erik the Red • Farmhouse • Gotland • Graf • Harald Bluetooth • hearth • Hedeby • heorot • High Middle Ages • Hrothgar • Hymir • Iceland • Institution • Iron Age • Jutland • Lejre • Literature • longship • Mead hall • mercenary • Middle Ages • Missionary • Nantes • narrative • Neil Price (archaeologist) • North America • Northern Europe • Northmen (Middle-earth) • Odin • Of the Farm • Olaf Tryggvason • Old Norse • Olof (I) of Sweden • Orkney • Paganism • plough • Poetry • Posthole • Prose • Reric • Retinue • Rimbert • Runes • runestone • Runic inscriptions • Rurik • Saga • Sagas of Icelanders • Scandinavia • Scandinavians • Scania • Shirt • Sigurd • Silver coin • skald • Snorri • Sven • Swedes • sweyn forkbeard • Tax • The Various • Trade Route • treasure trove • Tumulus • Ulfberht swords • Unni (bishop) • Varangian Guard • Varangians • Viking Age • vinland sagas • warfare • Western Europe • William the Conqueror
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-5190-4 / 1400851904
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-5190-4 / 9781400851904