Anglo-Saxon & Viking
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The Norse Sorceress: Mind and Materiality in the Viking World [Hardback]
Leszek Gardeła(Editor); Sophie Bønding(Editor); Peter Pentz(Editor)
Regular Price: $95.00
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ISBN: 9781789259537
Published by : Oxbow Books
Old Norse literature abounds with descriptions of magic acts that allow ritual specialists of various kinds to manipulate the world around them, see into the future or the distant past, change weather conditions, influence the outcomes of battles,... .... Learn More -
Archaeology and Land-use of South-East England to 1066: A Tribute to Peter Drewett [Hardback]
Michael J. Allen(Editor); David Rudling(Editor)
$70.00ISBN: 9781782979623
Published by : Oxbow Books
This new authoritative textbook on the archaeology of Southeast England (principally Kent, Sussex and Surrey) comprises contributions by over 30 leading authorities to provide a comprehensive overview as an informed narrative and interpretation of... .... Learn More -
Tracing Textile Production from the Viking Age to the Middle Ages: Tools, Textiles, Texts and Contexts [Hardback]
Ingvild Øye(Author)
$75.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789257779
Published by : Oxbow Books
This book concerns textile production at the fringes of north-western Europe - areas in western Norway and the North Atlantic in the expanding, dynamic and transformative period from the early Viking Age into the Middle Ages. Textiles constitute o... .... Learn More -
The Viking Age: A Time of Many Faces [Paperback]
Caroline Ahlström Arcini(Author)
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ISBN: 9781789258042
Published by : Oxbow Books
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 staye... .... Learn More -
The Birsay Bay Project: Volume 3 - The Brough of Birsay, Orkney - Investigations 1954-2014 [Hardback]
Christopher D. Morris(Author); Rachel C. Barrowman(Editor)
$90.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789256079
Published by : Oxbow Books
The Brough of Birsay was the power-center of the Viking earldom of Orkney and is one of Historic Environment Scotland’s key monuments and visitor attractions on the islands. This publication is the culmination of 60 years of investigations t... .... Learn More -
Dorestad and its Networks: Communities, Contact and Conflict in Early Medieval Europe [Paperback]
Annemarieke Willemsen(Editor); Hanneke Kik MA(Editor)
$65.00ISBN: 9789464260038
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: PALMA
Volume: 25
Dorestad was the largest town of the Low Countries in the Carolingian era. As a riverine emporium on the northern edge of the Frankish Empire, it functioned as a European junction, connecting the Viking world with the Continent. In 2019, the Natio... .... Learn More -
Dorestad and its Networks: Communities, Contact and Conflict in Early Medieval Europe [Hardback]
Annemarieke Willemsen(Editor); Hanneke Kik MA(Editor)
$195.00ISBN: 9789464260045
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: PALMA
Volume: 25
Dorestad was the largest town of the Low Countries in the Carolingian era. As a riverine emporium on the northern edge of the Frankish Empire, it functioned as a European junction, connecting the Viking world with the Continent. In 2019, the Natio... .... Learn More -
Everyday Life in Viking-Age Towns: Social Approaches to Towns in England and Ireland, c. 800-1100 [Paperback]
Letty ten Harkel(Editor); D. M. Hadley(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789255461
Published by : Oxbow Books
The study of early medieval towns has frequently concentrated on urban beginnings, the search for broadly applicable definitions of urban characteristics and the chronological development of towns. Far less attention has been paid to the experienc... .... Learn More -
Exploring Celtic Origins: New Ways Forward in Archaeology, Linguistics, and Genetics [Paperback]
Barry Cunliffe(Editor); John T. Koch(Editor)
Regular Price: $48.00
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ISBN: 9781789255508
Published by : Oxbow Books
Exploring Celtic Origins is the fruit of collaborative work by researchers in archaeology, historical linguistics, and archaeogenetics over the past ten years. This team works towards the goal of a better understanding of the background in the Bro... .... Learn More -
Pecsaetna: People of the Anglo-Saxon Peak District [Paperback]
Phil Sidebottom(Author)
$45.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781911188681
Published by : Windgather Press
This book is intended to pull together our current knowledge of the ‘lost’ group of people called the Pecsaetna (literally, meaning the ‘Peak Sitters’) by synthesizing more recent historical and archaeological research towa... .... Learn More
