Exploring the world of the Vikings /
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| Author / Creator: | Hall, R. A. (Richard Andrew), 1949-2011 |
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| Imprint: | London : Thames & Hudson, 2007. |
| Description: | 240 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6280120 |
Table of Contents:
- I. Who were the Vikings?
- Who and What was a Viking?
- Cradle of the Vikings
- Before the Vikings: Scandinavia and the Roman Empire
- New Signs of Power
- Political Mergers: The Rise of the Regions
- The Viking Age: An Outline History
- II. Viking Life and Culture
- The Peoples of Scandinavia
- Viking Women
- Costume and Appearance
- At Home with the Vikings
- Crafts and Technology
- Ships: Catalyst of the Viking World
- Trade
- Viking Towns
- III. Raiders and Invaders
- The Viking Warrior
- Targets and Tactics
- Vikings in Frisia
- The Carolingian Heartlands
- The 'Great Heathen Army' in England
- Ship-Bases in Ireland
- The Scottish Enigma
- Uninviting Wales?
- Iberia, North Africa and the Mediterranean
- IV. Invaders and Settlers
- Vikings in the East
- The Settlement of England
- Irish vikings in Northwest England
- Jorvik: The Viking Age City of York
- The Welsh Experience
- Phase Two in Ireland
- The Viking Age City of Dublin
- Settlers in Scotland and the Northern Isles
- Innse Gall: Vikings in the Western Isles
- Coming to the Nub: The Isle of Man
- Normandy
- V. New Found Lands
- The Faeroe Islands
- The Settlement of Iceland
- Greenland
- Further West: Vinland
- VI. Expressions of Identity: Religion and Art
- A Pagan World
- Art and Craft Mysteries
- VII. The Later Viking Age
- The Cult of Kings at Jelling
- King Harald's Power Bases
- Svein Forkbeard's Invasions of England
- Cnut's Anglo-Scandinavian Empire
- Town Life in Scandinavia
- VIII. The End and After
- Harald Hardraada and the Last of the Vikings
- Lost Kingdoms in the West
- Ending the Earldom in the Northern Isles
- From Norsemen to Anglo-Normans in Ireland
- From Feuds to Feudal Iceland
- Greenland: Extinct/Exterminated/Exited?
- IX. Nationalists, Romantics, Madmen, and Scholars
- Rediscovering the Vikings in their Colonies
- Rediscovering the Vikings in their Homelands
- Meanwhile in America...
- The Vikings: Past, Present and Future
- Gazetteer
- Further Reading
- Illustration Credits
- Acknowledgments
- Index