Vikings across boundaries : Viking-age transformations, volume II /
This volume explores the changes that occurred during the Viking Age, as Scandinavian societies fell in line with the larger forces that dominated the Insular world and continental Europe, absorbing the powerful symbiosis of Christianity and monarchy, adapting to the idea of royal lineage and suprem...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
[2021]
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| Series: | Culture, environment and adaptation in the North.
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| Summary: | This volume explores the changes that occurred during the Viking Age, as Scandinavian societies fell in line with the larger forces that dominated the Insular world and continental Europe, absorbing the powerful symbiosis of Christianity and monarchy, adapting to the idea of royal lineage and supremacy and developing a buzzing urbanism coupled with large-scale trade networks. Presenting research on the grand context of the Viking Age alongside localized studies, it contributes to the furthering of collaborations between local and 'outsider' research on the Viking Age. Through a diversity of approaches on the Viking homelands and the wider world of the Vikings, it offers studies of a range of phenomena, including urban and rural settlements, continuity in the use of places as well as new types of places specific to the Viking Age, the social significance of change, the construction and maintenance of social identity both within the 'homelands' and across large territories, ethnicity and ideas of identity and the creation and recreation of identity both at home and abroad. As such, it will appeal to historians and archaeologists with interests in Viking Age studies, as well as those scholars of Scandinavian studies. |
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| Item Description: | "The following book presents a companion volume to Viking-Age Transformations: Trade, Craft and Resources in Western Scandinavia, edited by Zanette T. Glørstad and Kjetil Loftsgarden, published in 2017"--Preface. |
| Physical Description: | xvii, 310 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780367364526 0367364522 |