Archaeology

ISBN: 9781107015630
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This book tracks the development of social complexity in Ireland from the late prehistoric period on into the Middle Ages. Using a range of methods and techniques, particularly data from settlement patterns, Blair Gibson demonstra... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407309835
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Chlemoutsi castle is located in the NW Peloponnese (Greece). It was built by the Franks following the Fourth Crusade and the establishment of the Principality of Achaea. At the beginning of the 15th century the castle passed to Ch... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521563666
Published by : Cambridge University Press
At its height, the Carolingian empire spanned a million square kilometres of western Europe - from the English Channel to central Italy and northern Spain, and from the Atlantic to the fringes of modern Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic. A... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521564946
Published by : Cambridge University Press
At its height, the Carolingian empire spanned a million square kilometres of western Europe - from the English Channel to central Italy and northern Spain, and from the Atlantic to the fringes of modern Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic. A... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780888441669
Published by : Pontifical Institute for Med Studs
This book explores one of the central myths of Spain: the idea that Spanish culture arose from that of the Visigoths. It begins with a sketch of Visigothic history, then proceeds to explore attitudes towards the Goths and the legends and myths ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780198208709
Published by : Oxford University Press
From poems celebrating Vandal baths that evoked stoic concepts of cosmic order to seventh-century Visigothic poetry and early Irish theorising on the ideal ruler, this book offers a comprehensive vision of how the relationship between ideas of ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199588657
Published by : Oxford University Press
In the Middle Ages Ireland's extensive and now famous literature was unknown outside the Gaelic-speaking world of Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man - with Wales an important exception. Irish emigrants had settled in Wales from the fifth c... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780715637975
Published by : Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd.
This book considers evidence for Germanic goddesses in England and on the Continent, and argues on the basis of linguistic and onomastic evidence that modern scholarship has tended to focus too heavily on the notion of divine functions or spher... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780715637548
Published by : Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd.
This book, illustrated with case-studies and examoples drawn from a range of sources, including the Celtic west, Anglo-Saxon England, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, tackles some of the important issues surrounding early medieval conversion pro... .... Learn More