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Vikings of the Steppe
This book explores the relationship between Vikings, Rus’ and nomadic (mostly Turkic) steppe dwellers during the course of the Viking Age (c. 750–1050) in a geographical area stretching from Eastern Scandinavia through the Kievan Rus’, Byzantium, the Islamic world to the Western Eurasian steppes. The primary focus is the steppe influence on the development of Scandinavian-Rus’ culture. It illustrates the effects of Turkic (nomadic) cultures on the evolving Scandinavian-Rus’ communities in their military technology and tactics, as well as in everyday customs, ritual traditions and religious perceptions, whilst paying attention to the politico-commercial necessities and possible comm...
The Varangians
This book is the history of the Eastern Vikings, the Rus and the Varangians, from their earliest mentions in the narrative sources to the late medieval period, when the Eastern Vikings had become stock figures in Old Norse Romances. A comparison is made between sources emanating from different cultures, such as the Roman Empire, the Abbasid Caliphate and its successor states, the early kingdoms of the Rus and the high medieval Scandinavian kingdoms. A key element in the history of the Rus and the Varangians is the fashioning of identities and how different cultures define themselves in comparison and contrast with the other. This book offers a fresh and engaging view of these medieval sources, and a thorough reassessment of established historiographical grand narratives on Scandinavian peoples in the East.
Exploring Ireland’s Viking-Age Towns
Exploring Ireland’s Viking-Age Towns discusses the emergence of towns, urban lifestyles, and urban identities in Ireland. This coincides with the arrival of the Vikings and the appearance of the post-and-wattle Type 1 house. These houses reflect this crucial transition to urban living with its attendant changes for individuals, households, and society. Exploring Ireland’s Viking-Age Towns uses household archaeology as a lens to explore the materiality, variability, and day-to-day experiences of living in these houses. It moves from the intimate scale of individual households to the larger scale of Ireland’s earliest urban communities. For the first time, this book considers how these h...
Viking Camps
This book is the coming together of several disciplines under the thematic umbrella of Viking Camps and provides the very latest research presented by the leading researchers in the field, making it the most comprehensive compilation of the phenomenon of Viking camps to date. Compiling the current state of research on encampments across the Viking world and their impact on their surroundings, this volume provides an all-encompassing analysis of their characteristics—functions, form, inner workings, and interaction with the landscape and the local population. It initiates a wider discussion on the features and functions that define them, making it possible to identify and understand new sit...
Medieval Animals on the Move
This book investigates relations between humans and animals over several centuries with a focus on the Middle Ages, since important features of our perceptions regarding animals have been rooted in that period. Elucidating various aspects of medieval human-animal relationships requires transdisciplinary discourse, and so this book aims to reconcile the materiality of animals with complex cultural systems illustrating their subtle transitions 'between body and mind'.
The Children of Ash and Elm
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'As brilliant a history of the Vikings as one could possibly hope to read' Tom Holland The 'Viking Age' is traditionally held to begin in June 793 when Scandinavian raiders attacked the monastery of Lindisfarne in Northumbria, and to end in September 1066, when King Harald Hardrada of Norway died leading the charge against the English line at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. This book, the most wide-ranging and comprehensive assessment of the current state of our knowledge, takes a refreshingly different view. It shows that the Viking expansion began generations before the Lindisfarne raid, and traces Scandinavian history back centuries further to see how these people ...
Öt király kora
A Turul nemzetség történetének hatodik könyve ismét izgalmas korszakot ölel fel. Egyszerre szól Béla királyról, ki összeesküvés áldozatául esik, és András fia Salamonról, aki oly sok bajt hozott az országra. Akkor még akadtak pogányok, és többen voltak, mint kellett volna. Pusztulásukat felerészben önmaguknak köszönhették, hiszen a Hont vissza akarták vinni az időben, amikor a törzsi vezérek kezében volt a hatalom, és táltosok mondották meg, mi a jó és mi a rossz a nemzetnek. Salamon, az örök békétlen többször ráhozta német barátait, szövetségeseit és egyben rokonait a magyar hazára. Megesett, hogy egyszerre névleg ketten, valójában azo...
Copiii Frasinului si ai Ulmului
Neil Price ne invita intr-o calatorie printre povesti, atestari si descoperiri arheologice, pe meandrele unei analize culturale, sociale si politice. Tinand cont de dovezile incomplete, imbinand istoria consacrata si cea netraditionala, autorul introduce cititorul in literatura nordica veche si incurajeaza cu entuziasm lectura acesteia, oferind comentarii (cu elemente speculative si controversate) legate de lumea pre-vikingilor, vikingilor si a diasporei, atat in jurul Marii Nordului, cat si dincolo de ea. ,,Copiii Frasinului si ai Ulmului. O istorie a vikingilor de Neil Price este o relatare cuprinzatoare si captivanta a Epocii vikingilor. Fara a se eschiva niciun moment de faptele violente ale vikingilor, Price are talentul de a intelege detalii prozaice, astfel incat spune o poveste indrazneata a unei societati total diferita de a noastra." (Johanna Katrin Fridriksdottir, History Today)
Les Enfants du frêne et de l'orme
Pendant près de trois siècles, des peuples venus de Scandinavie ont profondément bouleversé les régions du Nord, jusqu’aux rivages de l’Amérique et aux steppes asiatiques. Au-delà des actes réels de violence et de pillage, auxquels on les réduit bien souvent, ils remanièrent la carte politique et culturelle de l’Europe et inventèrent de nouvelles formes de commerce, d’économie, de peuplement et de conflictualité. S’appuyant sur de nombreuses sources, et en particulier sur les dernières découvertes archéologiques mais aussi sur les grands récits de la littérature norroise, Neil Price revisite la légende viking. Le récit qu’il tisse se déploie d’un bout à l...
Ask og Emblas barn
Nytt og helhetlig blikk på vikingtiden av en av de største autoritetene på feltet. Tradisjonelt regnes vikingtiden fra år 793, da vikinger angrep klosteret i Lindisfarne, til Harald Hardrådes død ved slaget ved Stamford Bridge i år 1066. I denne boken retter den anerkjente arkeologen Neil Price et nytt blikk på denne oppfatningen. Price viser at vikingenes ekspansjon startet flere generasjoner før Lindisfarne-angrepet, og går århundre tilbake for å finne røttene til fenomenet 'viking'. Ask og Emblas barn er den mest vidtrekkende og komplette samlingen av all kunnskap vi besitter om vikingene i dag. Fortellingen bringer leseren på tvers av hele vikingenes oppland - fra Vinland i...
