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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

ISBN: 9781108474641
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
Drawing on a range of evidence related to royal authority, political events and literate culture, this study traces how kings and emperors involved themselves in the affairs of the Spanish March, and examines how actively people in Catalonia parti... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781501732683
Published by : Cornell University Press
Historians typically single out the hundred-year period from about 1050 to 1150 as the pivotal moment in the history of the Latin Church, for it was then that the Gregorian Reform movement established the ecclesiastical structure that would ensure... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781891271281
Published by : Celtic Studies Publications
Series: Celtic Studies Publications
Volume: 21
This book is a study of the rich and fascinating traditions found early Irish literature concerning smiths and the fashioning of metal. The smith had a special status within the traditional societies of early Ireland and elsewhere in the Celtic-sp... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780801442100
Published by : Cornell University Press
The Avars arrived in Europe from the Central Asian steppes in the mid-sixth century CE and dominated much of Central and Eastern Europe for almost 250 years. Fierce warriors and canny power brokers, the Avars were more influential and durable than... .... Learn More

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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