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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The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia [Hardback]
Neil Price (Author)
£35.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781842172605
Published by : Oxbow Books
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 -
The Lands of Saint Ambrose: Monks and Society in Carolingian Milan [Hardback]
Ross Balzaretti (Author)
£135.00ISBN: 9782503509778
Published by : Brepols
This book provides a history of early medieval Milan that incorporates the as-yet underestimated role of the city's Benedictine monastery. This book is a history of Milan in the early medieval period. It investigates the political, social, and ... .... Learn More -
Beside the Ocean: Coastal Landscapes at the Bay of Skaill, Marwick, and Birsay Bay, Orkney: Archaeological Research 2003-18 [Hardback]
David Griffiths (Author); Jane Harrison (Author); Michael Athanson (Author)
£45.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789250961
Published by : Oxbow Books
The Bay of Skaill, Marwick Bay, and Birsay Bay form openings in the high sandstone cliffs of Orkney’s Atlantic coast. These west-facing bays have long been favoured locations for settlement, with access to the ocean, to fresh water, to land and to... .... 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 -
Interpreting Transformations of People and Landscapes in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Archaeological Approaches and Issues [Hardback]
Pilar Diarte-Blasco (Editor); Neil Christie (Editor)
£55.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789250343
Published by : Oxbow Books
In this volume of papers, deriving from two conferences held in Rome and Leicester in 2016, nineteen leading European archaeologists discuss and interpret the complex evolution of landscapes – both urban and rural – across Late Antiquity and the E... .... Learn More -
Cille Pheadair: A Norse Farmstead and Pictish Burial Cairn in South Uist [Hardback]
Mike Parker Pearson (Author); Mark Brennand (Author); Jacqui Mulville (Author); Helen Smith (Author)
£35.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781785708510
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides
Volume: 7
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 -
The Viking Age: A Time of Many Faces [Hardback]
Caroline Ahlström Arcini (Author)
£38.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781785709388
Published by : Oxbow Books
The majority of literature about the Viking period, based on artefacts or written sources, covers battles, kings, chiefs and mercenaries, long distance travel and colonisation, trade, and settlement. Less is said about the life of those that staye... .... Learn More -
Tecniche di rilevamento e metodi di rappresentazione per l’Architettura Rupestre [Paperback]
Andrea Angelini (Author)
Regular Price: £29.00
Special Price: £10.00
ISBN: 9781407316123
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR S
Volume: 2889
Rupestrian Architecture is a particular form of architecture that presents ‘constructive’ and morphological characteristics different from the traditional ones. This volume proposes a general revision of procedures for the 3D acquisition, elaborat... .... Learn More -
Farming Transformed in Anglo-Saxon England: Agriculture in the Long Eighth Century [Paperback]
Mark McKerracher (Author)
£34.99Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781911188315
Published by : Windgather Press
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 -
Be a Perfect Man: Christian Masculinity and the Carolingian Aristocracy [Hardback]
Andrew J. Romig (Author)
Regular Price: £54.00
Special Price: £9.25
ISBN: 9780812249248
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
Series: The Middle Ages Series
The life of an aristocratic Carolingian man involved an array of behaviors and duties associated with his gender and rank: an education in arms and letters; training in horsemanship, soldiery, and hunting; betrothal, marriage, and the virile produ... .... Learn More
