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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Ireland's Immortals: A History of the Gods of Irish Myth [Paperback]
Mark Williams (Author)
£22.00ISBN: 9780691183046
Published by : Princeton University Press
Ireland's Immortals tells the story of one of the world's great mythologies. The first account of the gods of Irish myth to take in the whole sweep of Irish literature in both the nation's languages, the book describes how Ireland's pagan diviniti... .... Learn More -
Kingship, Society, and the Church in Anglo-Saxon Yorkshire [Hardback]
Thomas Pickles (Author)
£85.00ISBN: 9780198818779
Published by : Oxford University Press
Series: Medieval History and Archaeology
Inspired by studies of Carolingian Europe, Kingship, Society and the Church in Anglo-Saxon Yorkshire argues that the social strategies of local kin-groups drove conversion to Christianity and church building in Yorkshire from 400-1066 AD. It chall... .... Learn More -
Wulfhere's People: A Mid-Saxon Cemetery at Wolverton, Milton Keynes [Paperback]
A. J. Hancock (Author); R. J. Zeepvat (Author)
£23.00ISBN: 9780995717749
Published by : Buckinghamshire Archeological Society
The mid Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Wolverton contained 81 inhumation burials and two cremations, accompanied by a wide range of grave goods. This cemetery, the largest of its type found in Buckinghamshire to date, is probably to be linked with the ne... .... Learn More -
Citadel of the Saxons: The Rise of Early London [Hardback]
Rory Naismith (Author)
£20.00ISBN: 9781788312226
Published by : I.B. Tauris
With a past as deep and sinewy as the famous River Thames that twists like an eel around the jutting peninsula of Mudchute and the Isle of Dogs, London is one of the world's greatest and most resilient cities. Born beside the sludge and the silt o... .... Learn More -
The Olsztyn Group in the Early Medieval Archaeology of the Baltic Region: The Cemetery at Leleszki [Hardback]
Miroslaw Rudnicki (Author)
£134.00ISBN: 9789004264946
Published by : Brill
Series: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450
Volume: 52
The The Olsztyn Group in the Early Medieval Archaeology of the Baltic Region: The Cemetry at Leleszki deals with a much neglected problem of the archaeology of the early Middle Ages. Between the 5th and the 7th century, the region of the Mazurian ... .... Learn More -
Unquiet Women: From the Dusk of the Roman Empire to the Dawn of the Enlightenment [Hardback]
Max Adams (Author)
£20.00ISBN: 9781788543415
Published by : Head of Zeus
Wynflaed was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who owned male slaves and badger-skin gowns; Egeria a Gaulish nun who toured the Holy Land as the Roman Empire was collapsing; Gudfrid an Icelandic explorer and the first woman to give birth to a European chi... .... Learn More -
Dreams and Visions in the Early Middle Ages: The Reception and Use of Patristic Ideas, 400-900 [Paperback]
Jesse Keskiaho (Author)
£20.99ISBN: 9781107442658
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
Volume: 99
Dreams and visions played important roles in the Christian cultures of the early Middle Ages. But not only did tradition and authoritative texts teach that some dreams were divine: some also pointed out that this was not always the case. Exploring... .... Learn More -
Power and Religion in Merovingian Gaul: Columbanian Monasticism and the Frankish Elites [Paperback]
Yaniv Fox (Author)
£21.99ISBN: 9781107658424
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
Volume: 98
This study is the first to attempt a thorough investigation of the activities of the Columbanian congregation, which played a significant role in the development of Western monasticism. This was a new form of rural monasticism, which suited the ne... .... Learn More -
The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom [Paperback]
Jamie Kreiner (Author)
£20.99ISBN: 9781107658394
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
Volume: 96
This book charts the influence of Christian ideas about social responsibility on the legal, fiscal and operational policies of the Merovingian government, which consistently depended upon the collaboration of kings and elites to succeed, and it sh... .... Learn More -
The Middle Ages Revisited: Studies in the Archaeology and History of Medieval Southern England [Paperback]
Ben Jervis (Editor)
£32.00ISBN: 9781789690354
Published by : Archaeopress
This volume, produced in honour of Professor David A. Hinton’s contribution to medieval studies, re-visits the sites, archaeologists and questions which have been central to the archaeology of medieval southern England. Contributions are focused o... .... Learn More
