Anglo-Saxon & Viking
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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 -
Contacts and Networks in the Baltic Sea Region: Austmarr as a Northern mare nostrum, ca. 500-1500 CE [Hardback]
Kendra Willson (Editor); Maths Bertell (Editor); Frog (Editor)
£89.00ISBN: 9789462982635
Published by : Amsterdam University Press
Series: Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies
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Since prehistoric times, the Baltic Sea has acted as a crucial nexus that has shaped the languages, folklore, religions, literature, technology, and identities of the Germanic, Finnic, Sámi, Baltic, and Slavic peoples. This anthology first provide... .... Learn More -
Crafts and Social Networks in Viking Towns [Paperback]
Stephen P. Ashby (Editor); Søren Sindbaek (Editor)
Regular Price: £38.00
Special Price: £30.40
ISBN: 9781789251609
Published by : Oxbow Books
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Crafting Communities explores the interface between craft, communication networks, and urbanization in Viking-age Northern Europe. Viking-period towns were the hubs of cross-cultural communication of their age, and innovations in specialized craft... .... Learn More -
Viking Encounters: Proceedings of the 18th Viking Congress [Hardback]
Anne Pedersen (Editor); Søren M Sindbæk (Editor)
£50.00ISBN: 9788771842654
Published by : Aarhus University Press
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The Viking Age is marked out as a watershed for profound cultural and social changes in northern societies: from the spread of Christianity to urbanization and political centralization. Interaction across boundaries or within communities constitut... .... Learn More -
Design and Techniques in Early Medieval Celtic Metalwork [Hardback]
Niamh Whitfield (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781904597339
Published by : Pindar Press
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Niamh Whitfield is a leading authority on the metalwork of early Medieval Ireland and Scotland. Celtic metalwork of the seventh to twelfth centuries is extremely accomplished technically, and she has aimed at a thorough understanding of its manufa... .... Learn More -
A Norse Settlement in the Outer Hebrides: Excavations on Mounds 2 and 2A, Bornais, South Uist [Hardback]
Niall Sharples (Editor)
Regular Price: £45.00
Special Price: £33.75
ISBN: 9781789250466
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Bornais
Volume: 3
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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 -
The Lost Art of the Anglo-Saxon World: The Sacred and Secular Power of Embroidery [Paperback]
Alexandra Lester-Makin (Author)
Regular Price: £38.00
Special Price: £30.40
ISBN: 9781789251449
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles
Volume: 35
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This latest title in the highly successful Ancient Textiles series is the first substantial monograph-length historiography of early medieval embroideries and their context within the British Isles. The book brings together and analyses for the fi... .... Learn More -
Bede's Latin Poetry [Hardback]
Michael Lapidge (Editor)
£95.00ISBN: 9780199242771
Published by : Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford Medieval Texts
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Although his historical and exegetical works are better known, Bede's small corpus of Latin poetry was widely read and imitated throughout the Middle Ages. Yet in spite of its importance as a keystone in medieval Latin literature, there has not pr... .... Learn More -
Landscape, Tradition and Power in Medieval Iceland: Dalir and the Eyjafjoerdur region c.870-c.1265 [Hardback]
Chris Callow (Author)
£105.00ISBN: 9789004278875
Published by : Brill
Series: Northern World
Volume: 80
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Chris Callow's Landscape, Tradition and Power critically examines the evidence for socio-political developments in medieval Iceland during the so-called Commonwealth period. The book compares regions in the west and north-east of Iceland because t... .... Learn More -
Looting or Missioning: Insular and Continental Sacred Objects in Viking Age Contexts in Norway [Hardback]
Egil Mikkelsen (Author)
Regular Price: £48.00
Special Price: £38.40
ISBN: 9781789253184
Published by : Oxbow Books
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Until now insular and continental material, mostly metal-work, found in pagan Viking Age graves in Norway, has been interpreted as looted material from churches and monasteries on the British Isles and the Continent. The raiding Vikings brought th... .... Learn More
