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Viking Migration and Settlement in East Anglia: The Place-Name Evidence [Paperback]
David Boulton (Author)
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ISBN: 9781914427251
Published by : Windgather Press
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This book shows how analysis of Scandinavian-influenced place-names in their landscape contexts can provide crucial new evidence of differing processes of Viking migration and settlement in East Anglia between the late ninth and eleventh centuries... .... Learn More -
The Norse Sorceress: Mind and Materiality in the Viking World [Hardback]
Leszek Gardeła (Editor); Sophie Bønding (Editor); Peter Pentz (Editor)
Regular Price: £60.00
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ISBN: 9781789259537
Published by : Oxbow Books
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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 -
The Book of Kells: A Masterwork Revealed: Creators, Collaboration, and Campaigns [Paperback]
Donncha MacGabhann (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9789464261226
Published by : Sidestone Press
Sublime calligraphy, marvellous art, and amazing initials, have charmed and captivated the audience of the Book of Kells for over twelve hundred years. This remarkable illuminated Gospel book attracts the attention of scholars as well as those mor... .... Learn More -
The Book of Kells: A Masterwork Revealed: Creators, Collaboration, and Campaigns [Hardback]
Donncha MacGabhann (Author)
£120.00ISBN: 9789464261233
Published by : Sidestone Press
Sublime calligraphy, marvellous art, and amazing initials, have charmed and captivated the audience of the Book of Kells for over twelve hundred years. This remarkable illuminated Gospel book attracts the attention of scholars as well as those mor... .... Learn More -
Tracing Old Norse Cosmology: The world tree, middle earth and the sun in archaeological perspectives [Paperback]
Anders Andren (Author)
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ISBN: 9789188909619
Published by : Nordic Academic Press
The study of Old Norse religion is a truly multidisciplinary and international field of research. The rituals, myths, and narratives of pre-Christian Scandinavia have been studied and interpreted in detail by a vast number of scholars. They have l... .... Learn More -
Pecsaetna: People of the Anglo-Saxon Peak District [Paperback]
Phil Sidebottom (Author)
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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 synthesising more recent historical and archaeological research towards a better understandi... .... Learn More -
The Staffordshire Hoard: An Anglo-Saxon Treasure [Hardback]
Chris Fern (Editor); Tania Dickinson (Editor); Leslie Webster (Editor)
£49.95ISBN: 9781527233508
Published by : Society of Antiquaries of London
Series: Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Volume: 80
The Staffordshire Hoard: An Anglo-Saxon Treasure tells the story of the Staffordshire Hoard’s discovery and acquisition, and the six-year research project that pieced its fragments back together, identified its objects and explored their... .... Learn More -
A Norse Settlement in the Outer Hebrides: Excavations on Mounds 2 and 2A, Bornais, South Uist [Hardback]
Niall Sharples (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789250466
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Bornais
Volume: 3
The settlement at Bornais in the Western Isles of Scotland is one of the largest rural settlements known from the Norse period in Britain. It spans the period from the fifth to the fifteenth century AD when the Atlantic seaboard was subject to dra... .... Learn More -
Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 21 [Paperback]
Helena Hamerow (Editor)
£30.00ISBN: 9781905905447
Published by : Oxford University School of Archaeology
Series: Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History
Volume: 21
A selection of papers on the Anglo-Saxon period, including papers on non-ferrous dress-accessories from early medieval Lincoln; The Anglo-Saxon settlement at Catholme, Staffordshire; transformation and use of insular moun... .... Learn More -
Image and Power in the Archaeology of Early Medieval Britain: Essays in honour of Rosemary Cramp [Paperback]
Arthur MacGregor (Author); Helena Hamerow (Author)
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ISBN: 9781785704659
Published by : Oxbow Books
Rosemary Cramp's influence on the archaeology of early Medieval Britain is nowhere more apparent than in these essays in her honour by her former students. Monastic sites, Lindisfarne and Whithorn, are the inspiration for Deirdre O'Sullivan's and ... .... Learn More
