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Crafting Communities 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 -
Saxon Identities, AD 150-900 [Paperback]
Robert Flierman (Author)
£28.99ISBN: 9781350098923
Published by : Bloomsbury
Series: Studies in Early Medieval History
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This study is the first up-to-date comprehensive analysis of Continental Saxon identity in antiquity and the early middle ages. Building on recent scholarship on barbarian ethnicity, this study emphasises not just the constructed and open-ended na... .... Learn More -
Before the Gregorian Reform: The Latin Church at the Turn of the First Millennium [Paperback]
John Howe (Author)
£22.99ISBN: 9781501732683
Published by : Cornell University Press
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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 -
Carolingian Catalonia: Politics, Culture and the Creation of an Imperial Province, 778-987 [Hardback]
Cullen Chandler (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9781108474641
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
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The Avars: A Steppe Empire in Central Europe, 567-822 [Hardback]
Walter Pohl (Author)
£56.00ISBN: 9780801442100
Published by : Cornell University Press
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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 -
Ireland's Immortals: A History of the Gods of Irish Myth [Paperback]
Mark Williams (Author)
£22.00ISBN: 9780691183046
Published by : Princeton University Press
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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 -
Unquiet Women: From the Dusk of the Roman Empire to the Dawn of the Enlightenment [Hardback]
Max Adams (Author)
£20.00ISBN: 9781788543415
Published by : Head of Zeus
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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 -
The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom [Paperback]
Jamie Kreiner (Author)
£20.99ISBN: 9781107658394
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
Volume: 96
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This book charts the influence of Christian ideas about social responsibility on the legal, fiscal and operational policies of the Merovingian government, which consistently depended upon the collaboration of kings and elites to succeed, and it sh... .... Learn More -
Dreams and Visions in the Early Middle Ages: The Reception and Use of Patristic Ideas, 400-900 [Paperback]
Jesse Keskiaho (Author)
£20.99ISBN: 9781107442658
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
Volume: 99
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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 -
Power and Religion in Merovingian Gaul: Columbanian Monasticism and the Frankish Elites [Paperback]
Yaniv Fox (Author)
£21.99ISBN: 9781107658424
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
Volume: 98
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This study is the first to attempt a thorough investigation of the activities of the Columbanian congregation, which played a significant role in the development of Western monasticism. This was a new form of rural monasticism, which suited the ne... .... Learn More
