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Youth and Age in the Medieval North
This interdisciplinary volume explores social, cultural and biological definitions of youth and age specific to the medieval north, and changing mentalities towards youth and age as a result of political, cultural, and religious transformations in the north.
Viking Heritage and History in Europe
Viking Heritage and History in Europe presents new research and perspectives on the use of the Vikings in public history, especially in relation to museums, re-creation, and re-enactment in a European context. Taking a critical heritage approach, the volume provides new insights into the re-creation of history, imagining the past, interpretation, ambivalence of authenticity, authority of History, remembrance and memory, medievalism, and public history. Highlighting the complexity of the field of public history today, the fourteen chapters all engage with questions of historical authenticity and authority. The volume also critically examines the public’s reception, engagement with, and inte...
Decolonizing the Viking Age
"This is an archaeological study of burials and cemeteries datable to the ""Viking Age"" in the present South Scandinavian provinces of Scania, Blekinge, Halland, Bornholm, Oland and south Smaland. White burials of the time studied here have previously been "
Small Things – Wide Horizons
This publication honours Birgitta Hardh on her 70th birthday. Birgitta Hardh is one of the leading experts on European Viking Age, engaged in diverse research projects, and also a vital collaborator in various networks specializing in the period. Through time, Birgitta has extended her research to comprise other periods of the Iron Age.
Vikings Across Boundaries
This volume explores the changes that occurred during the Viking Age, as Scandinavian societies fell in line with the larger forces that dominated the Insular world and Continental Europe, absorbing the powerful symbiosis of Christianity and monarchy, adapting to the idea of royal lineage and supremacy, and developing a buzzing urbanism coupled with large-scale trade networks. Presenting research on the grand context of the Viking Age alongside localised studies, it contributes to the furthering of collaborations between local and ‘outsider’ research on the Viking Age. Through a diversity of approaches on the Viking homelands and the wider world of the Vikings, it offers studies of a ran...
The Viking Age
The majority of literature about the Viking period, based on artifacts or written sources, covers battles, kings, chiefs and mercenaries, long distance travel and colonization, trade, and settlement. Less is said about the life of those that stayed at home or those that immigrated into Scandinavia, whether voluntarily or by force. This book uses results from the examination of a substantial corpus of Swedish osteological material to discuss aspects of demography and health in the Viking period – those which would have been visible and recognizable in the faces or physical appearances of the individuals concerned. It explores the effects of migration, from the spread of new diseases such as...
Hur blir det med julen?
Systrarna Anki, Susanne och Jenny har trots sina olikheter alltid stått varandra nära. Men när deras pappa går bort och sista länken till barndomen försvinner blir det tydligt att de haft vitt skilda relationer till honom. Det är första advent och julen har alltid firats traditionsenligt i det stimmiga och trivsamma föräldrahemmet men i år – hur blir det med julen? Mitt bland julförberedelser och bodelning får systrarna ett besked som får deras värld att gunga. Kan det finnas syskon som de inte känt till? Medan snön faller över deras lilla stad och systrarna helst vill mysa med julklappsinslagning och glögg tvingas de att öppna dörren till sin pappas förflutna. Hur många kommer att samlas runt julbordet i år? Hur blir det med julen? är en varm och rolig julroman om familjehemligheter och olikheter. Jessika och Annika Devert är systrar, och har skrivit flera romaner tillsammans.
Tusen år i Uppåkra : en järnåldersmetropol uppgång och fall
I Uppåkra utanför Lund breder odlingsfälten ut sig över den skånska slätten. Men i över tusen år fanns här ett rikt maktcentrum stort som en stad, med hövdingahall, tempel och mängder av hantverkshus och gårdar. Det var en unik plats i den skandinaviska järnålderns historia, betydligt större än de mer kända Birka och Hedeby, med långväga kontakter ut i världen. Än har bara ett par promille av området grävts ut, ändå har fantastiska fynd hittats som förändrar vår syn på historien. I "Tusen år i Uppåkra" berättar Dick Harrison om staden som försvann och föll i glömska och ger samtidigt en levande bild av livet i Norden, så som det såg ut på sagornas och hjältedikternas tid – från förromersk järnålder till vikingatid.
The Various Models of Lordship in Europe between the Ninth and Fifteenth Centuries
The status of lord represented one of the most original solutions to the political and social transitions of the Medieval period. Questions still remain unanswered and require further investigation, thus many scholars have collaborated to produce this collection which offers a synthesis of the most recent scholarship. This book relates the workings of seigneurial systems in different areas of Europe, from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, from Castile to Pontus. In this way, the perspective remains the same, institutional and material. This book emphasises both the institutional and informal forms of lordship identified and crystallised by social and political actors (for example, communities, sovereigns, nobles, bishops, and abbots). It offers a general framework for those approaching the subject for the first time and a useful in-depth tool with numerous regional cases for long-term scholars.
