History

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

ISBN: 9782503531618
Published by : Brepols
This book is the first dedicated interdisciplinary study of Bonifaces thirty-three-year mission among the Hessians. The author relates the historical sources to the rich archaeological heritage of the region in order to describe the political a... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782503532394
Published by : Brepols
Kingships, aristocrats, peasants, and the Church are among the many shared features of most early medieval European societies. However, these also varied dramatically in time and space. Can petty regional kings, for instance, be compared to tho... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415606028
Published by : Routledge Ltd
This volume considers the relationship between myth and materiality in Scandinavia from the beginning of the post-Roman era and the European Migrations up until the coming of Christianity. It pursues an interdisciplinary interpretation of text... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415606042
Published by : Routledge Ltd
This volume considers the relationship between myth and materiality in Scandinavia from the beginning of the post-Roman era and the European Migrations up until the coming of Christianity. It pursues an interdisciplinary interpretation of text... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781849085038
Published by : Osprey
This book explains the varied developments in early medieval European battle tactics, which were far from being the undisciplined chaos of popular imagination. It traces the decline of cavalry as a battle winning weapon in the 'barbarian' king... .... Learn More