Archaeology
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The Early Medieval Monastic Site at Dacre, Cumbria [Paperback]
Rachel M. Newman (Author); Christine Howard Davis (Author); Roger H Leech (Author)
£22.50ISBN: 9781907686375
Published by : Oxford Archaeology North
Series: Lancaster Imprints
Volume: 30
Dacre is rare in having documentary evidence for an early medieval monastery, mentioned by the Venerable Bede in 731, and in the 12th century, William of Malmesbury thought that it was where King Æthelstan of Wessex met the northern and western lo... .... Learn More -
The Viking Age: A Time of Many Faces [Paperback]
Caroline Ahlström Arcini (Author)
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ISBN: 9781789258042
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 -
Women and Weapons in the Viking World: Amazons of the North [Hardback]
Leszek Gardeła (Author)
£30.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789256659
Published by : Oxbow Books
The Viking Age (c. 750-1050 AD) is conventionally seen as a tumultuous time when hordes of fierce warriors from Scandinavia wreaked havoc across the European continent and when Norse merchants travelled to distant corners of the world in pursuit o... .... 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
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 -
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
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 -
Crafts and Social Networks in Viking Towns [Paperback]
Steven P. Ashby (Editor); Søren M. Sindbaek (Editor)
£38.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789251609
Published by : Oxbow Books
Crafts and Social Networks in Viking Towns explores the interface between craft, communication networks, and urbanisation in Viking-Age northern Europe. Viking-period towns were the hubs of cross-cultural communication of their age, and i... .... Learn More -
The Glass Vessels of Anglo-Saxon England c. AD 650-1100 [Paperback]
Rose Broadley (Author)
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ISBN: 9781789253726
Published by : Oxbow Books
This volume combines a comprehensive exploration of all vessel glass from middle and late Anglo-Saxon England and a review of the early glass with detailed interpretation of its meaning and place in Anglo-Saxon society. Analysis of a comprehensive... .... Learn More -
The Staffordshire Hoard: An Anglo-Saxon Treasure [Hardback]
Chris Fern (Editor); Tania Dickinson (Editor); Leslie Webster (Editor)
£49.95ISBN: 9781527233508
Published by : Society of Antiquaries of London
Series: Research Reports of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Volume: 80
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... .... Learn More -
A Norse Settlement in the Outer Hebrides: Excavations on Mounds 2 and 2A, Bornais, South Uist [Hardback]
Niall Sharples (Editor)
£35.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789250466
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Bornais
Volume: 3
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)
£38.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789251449
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles Series
Volume: 35
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 f... .... Learn More
