Archaeology
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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 -
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 -
Crafts and Social Networks in Viking Towns [Paperback]
Stephen P. Ashby (Editor); Søren Sindbaek (Editor)
Regular Price: £38.00
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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 -
A Norse Settlement in the Outer Hebrides: Excavations on Mounds 2 and 2A, Bornais, South Uist [Hardback]
Niall Sharples (Editor)
Regular Price: £45.00
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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
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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 -
Looting or Missioning: Insular and Continental Sacred Objects in Viking Age Contexts in Norway [Hardback]
Egil Mikkelsen (Author)
Regular Price: £48.00
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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 -
The Staffordshire Hoard: An Anglo-Saxon Treasure [Hardback]
Chris Fern (Editor); Tania Dickinson (Editor); Leslie Webster (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781527233508
Published by : Society of Antiquaries of London
Series: Research Report of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Volume: 80
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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 manufact... .... Learn More -
Burial, Landscape and Identity in Early Medieval Wessex [Hardback]
Kate Mees (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9781783274178
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
Series: Anglo-Saxon Studies
Volume: Volume 35
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Burial evidence provides the richest record we possess for the centuries following the retreat of Roman authority. The locations and manner in which communities chose to bury their dead, within the constraints of the environmental and social milie... .... Learn More -
A Riverine Site Near York: A Possible Viking Camp? [Paperback]
Gareth Williams (Editor)
£40.00ISBN: 9780861592241
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 224
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The location known as ‘A Riverine Site Near York (ARSNY)’ represents a category of Viking site known from the historical record but one that until recently had remained largely undetected archaeologically: the Viking camp. The published investigat... .... Learn More -
Peterborough and the Soke: Art, Architecture and Archaeology [Paperback]
Ron Baxter (Editor); Jackie Hall (Editor); Claudia Marx (Editor)
£29.99ISBN: 9780367173821
Published by : Routledge
Series: The British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions
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The British Archaeological Association Conference held at Peterborough in 2015 provided a welcome opportunity for a new analysis of the cathedral's architecture, sculpture and artistic production, and a reassessment of the relationship between the... .... Learn More
