Anglo-Saxon, Viking & Early Medieval Europe (up to AD1000)
The period from AD 400 to 1000 throughout Europe, including Anglo-Saxon England, Vikings, Picts, and the early medieval Celtic world, as well as the Merovingian, Carolingian and Ottonian kingdoms.
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Vikings: Raiders from the Sea [Paperback]
Kim Hjardar
£7.99ISBN: 9781612005195
Published by : Casemate UK
Series: Casemate Short History
From the 9th to the 11th century, Viking ships landed on almost every shore in the Western world. Viking ravages united the Spanish kingdoms and stopped Charlemagne and the Franks' advance in Europe. Wherever Viking ships roamed, enormous sufferin... .... Learn More -
The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia [Hardback]
Neil Price (Author)
Regular Price: £30.00
Special Price: £22.50
ISBN: 9781842172605
Published by : Oxbow Books
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Magic, sorcery and witchcraft are among the most common themes of the great medieval Icelandic sagas and poems, the problematic yet vital sources that provide our primary textual evidence for the Viking Age that they claim to describe. Yet desp... .... Learn More -
Bede and Time: Computus, Theology and History in the Early Medieval World [Hardback]
Mairin MacCarron (Author)
£105.00ISBN: 9781472476630
Published by : Routledge
Series: Studies in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland
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The Venerable Bede (c. 673-735) was the leading intellectual figure of the early Anglo-Saxon Church, whose extensive corpus of writings encompassed themes of exegesis, computus (dating of Easter and construction of calendars), history and hagiogra... .... Learn More -
Cille Pheadair: A Norse Farmstead in South Uist [Hardback]
Mike Parker Pearson (Author); Mark Brennand (Author); Jacqui Mulville (Author); Helen Smith (Author)
Regular Price: £35.00
Special Price: £26.75
ISBN: 9781785708510
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides
Volume: 7
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Cille Pheadair is one of more than 20 Viking Age and Late Norse settlements discovered on the island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides (Western Isles), off the west coast of Scotland. Its unusually well-preserved stratigraphic sequence of nine p... .... Learn More -
Farming Transformed in Anglo-Saxon England: Agriculture in the Long Eighth Century [Paperback]
Mark McKarracher (Author)
Regular Price: £34.99
Special Price: £26.25
ISBN: 9781911188315
Published by : Windgather Press
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Anglo-Saxon farming has traditionally been seen as the wellspring of English agriculture, setting the pattern for 1000 years to come – but it was more important than that. A rich harvest of archaeological data is now revealing the untold story of ... .... Learn More -
Alfred the Great: War, Kingship and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England [Hardback]
Richard Abels (Author)
£90.00ISBN: 9781138808119
Published by : Routledge
Series: The Medieval World
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This biography of Alfred the Great, king of the West Saxons (871-899), combines a sensitive reading of the primary sources with a careful evaluation of the most recent scholarly research on the history and archaeology of ninth-century England. Thi... .... Learn More -
Alfred the Great: War, Kingship and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England [Paperback]
Richard Abels (Author)
£29.99ISBN: 9781138808126
Published by : Routledge
Series: The Medieval World
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This biography of Alfred the Great, king of the West Saxons (871-899), combines a sensitive reading of the primary sources with a careful evaluation of the most recent scholarly research on the history and archaeology of ninth-century England. Thi... .... Learn More -
The Idea of Anglo-Saxon England 1066-1901: Remembering, Forgetting, Deciphering, and Renewing the Past [Paperback]
John D. Niles (Author)
£24.99ISBN: 9781119071242
Published by : Wiley-Blackwell
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The Idea of Anglo Saxon England, 1066-1901 presents the first systematic review of the ways in which Anglo-Saxon studies have evolved from their beginnings to the twentieth centuryTells the story of how the idea of Anglo-Saxon England evolved from... .... Learn More -
Her Father's Daughter: Gender, Power, and Religion in the Early Spanish Kingdoms [Hardback]
Lucy K. Pick (Author)
£51.95ISBN: 9781501714320
Published by : Cornell University Press
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In Her Father's Daughter, Lucy K. Pick considers a group of royal women in the early medieval kingdoms of the Asturias and of León-Castilla; their lives say a great deal about structures of power and the roles of gender and religion within the ear... .... Learn More -
Epistolary Acts: Anglo-Saxon Letters and Early English Media [Hardback]
Jordan Zweck (Author)
£51.99ISBN: 9781487501006
Published by : University of Toronto Press
Series: Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series
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As challenging as it is to imagine how an educated cleric or wealthy lay person in the early Middle Ages would have understood a letter (especially one from God), it is even harder to understand why letters would have so captured the imagination o... .... Learn More
