Viking Antiquities in Great Britain and Ireland
Author | : Videnskapelige forskningsfond av 1919 |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Videnskapelige forskningsfond av 1919 |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jane F. Kershaw |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2013-02-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191646407 |
Viking Identities is the first detailed archaeological study of Viking-Age Scandinavian-style female dress items from England. Based on primary archival and archaeological research, including the analysis of hundreds of recent metal-detector finds, it presents evidence for over 500 brooches and pendants worn by women in the late ninth and tenth centuries. Jane F. Kershaw argues that these finds add an entirely new dimension to the limited existing archaeological evidence for Scandinavian activity in the British Isles and make possible a substantial reassessment of the Viking settlements. Kershaw offers an interpretation of the significance of the jewellery in a broader, historical context. The jewellery highlights locations of settlement not commonly associated with the Vikings. In contrast to claims of high levels of cultural assimilation, the jewellery suggests that incoming groups maintained a distinct Scandinavian identity which was sometimes appropriated by the indigenous population. Kershaw also addresses one of the great unanswered questions in the study of Viking-Age settlements: what about the women? The interpretation of the jewellery challenges traditional perceptions of Viking conquest as an all-male affair and brings into focus a population group which has, until now, been almost invisible. Kershaw describes the objects and explores a number of themes related to their contemporary use, including their date, distribution, and function in costume. This body of material - unknown 30 years ago - is introduced to a public audience for the first time. Including many object images and maps, the study provides a practical guide to the identification of Scandinavian metalwork.
Author | : Wilfrid Bonser |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Tony Abramson |
Publisher | : Boydell Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 1843834669 |
Tony Abramson presents this groundbreaking collection of articles centred upon the study of early Anglo-Saxon coinage.
Author | : Claire F. Ratican |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2024-09-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1040051057 |
This book explores multiple burials, the presence of more than one individual within a grave, within the Viking Age mortuary landscape throughout Scandinavia and the lands of their westward diaspora. Even though a number of spectacular examples have captured the imagination of professionals and the public alike, multiple burials have not been the subject of dedicated and systematic archaeological investigation. By adopting a perspective grounded in relationality and an analysis that centres on three types of beings—humans, animals and things—this book explores the ways in which each being entered into entangled relationships with the other, thereby mutually constituting the nature of their existence in Viking Age minds. For the first time, the corpus of Viking Age multiple burials located across the lands of the Western Scandinavian diaspora and their counterparts in the urban trading centres of Kaupang (Norway) and Hedeby (formerly Denmark) is synthesised into a single study, firmly situating the multiple burial rite within the wider suite of normative burial practices observed across the Viking World. The book meaningfully engages with a developing discourse in the Scandinavian tradition increasingly revealing the fluidity of being across human, animal and thing bodies in Iron Age mentalities and material culture. Ultimately, it poses the question: are humans, animals, and things similar forms of bodies and beings in the Viking World? This book will appeal to students and researchers of death and burial in the Viking World.
Author | : Anne Pedersen |
Publisher | : Aarhus Universitetsforlag |
Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 2020-09-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 877184936X |
The Viking Congresses bring together scholars of archaeology, philology, history, toponymy, numismatics and a number of other disciplines to discuss the Viking Age from a variety of viewpoints. This volume contains 44 peer-reviewed papers selected from those presented at the 18th Viking Congress held in Denmark in August 2017. The contributors take up the interdisciplinary challenge, and the papers cover a wide range of subjects, rooted in the past, but also connecting to the present.
Author | : Else Roesdahl |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1998-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0141941537 |
Thoroughly updated and with a new foreword 'The Viking Age is shot through with the spirit of adventure. For 300 years, from just before AD800 until well into the eleventh century, the Vikings affected almost every region accessible to their ships, and left traces that are still part of life today' Far from being just 'wild, barbaric, axe-wielding pirates', the Vikings created complex social institutions, oversaw the coming of Christianity to Scandinavia and made a major impact on European history through trade, travel and far-flung consolidation. This encyclopedic study brings together the latest research on Viking art, burial customs, class divisions, jewellery, kingship, poetry and family life. The result is a rich and compelling picture of an extraordinary civilisation.
Author | : Richard North |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 617 |
Release | : 2022-06-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501513370 |
Anglo-Danish Empire is an interdisciplinary handbook for the Danish conquest of England in 1016 and the subsequent reign of King Cnut the Great. Bringing together scholars from the fields of history, literature, archaeology, and manuscript studies, the volume offers comprehensive analysis of England’s shift from Anglo-Saxon to Danish rule. It follows the history of this complicated transition, from the closing years of the reign of King Æthelred II and the Anglo-Danish wars, to Cnut’s accession to the throne of England and his consolidation of power at home and abroad. Ruling from 1016 to 1035, Cnut drew England into a Scandinavian empire that stretched from Ireland to the Baltic. His reign rewrote the place of Denmark and England within Europe, altering the political and cultural landscapes of both countries for decades to come.
Author | : David Alban Hinton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 0199264546 |
In this highly illustrated book, David Hinton looks at what possessions meant to people at every level of society in Britain in the middle ages, from elaborate gold jewellery to clay pots, and provides a fascinating window into the society of the middle ages. Gold and Gilt, Pots and Pins is about things worn and used in Britain throughout the Middle Ages, from the great treasure hoards that mark the end of the Roman Empire to the new expressions of ideas promoted by the Renaissance and Reformation.
Author | : James Graham-Campbell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2016-06-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1315420155 |
In this book contributions by archaeologists and numismatists from six countries address different aspects of how silver was used in both Scandinavia and the wider Viking world during the 8th to 11th centuries AD. The volume brings together a combination of recent summaries and new work on silver and gold coinage, rings and bullion, which allow a better appreciation of the broader socioeconomic conditions of the Viking world. This is an indispensable source for all archaeologists, historians and numismatists involved in Viking Studies.