Towns and Commerce in Viking-Age Scandinavia
Towns and Commerce in Viking-Age Scandinavia

Author: Sven Kalmring

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-11-30

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1009298054

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This volume offers an interdisciplinary and geographically wide-ranging approach to understanding the emergence of towns and commerce in Viking-age Scandinavia and their eventual demise by the end of the period. It tracks the diverging characteristics of urban communities against the background of traditional social structures in the Viking world.

Norsemen in the Viking Age
Norsemen in the Viking Age

Author: Eric Christiansen

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 0470692766

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This history of the Nordic peoples in the period 750-1050 focuses on their homelands and colonies, demonstrating the fluidity and incoherence of the world in which they lived. Considers the Nordic peoples in Viking times without undue recourse to developmental theories. Guides readers through some of the scholarly controversies surrounding these peoples. Illustrated by reference to runic, poetic and archaeological evidence.

The Long Eighth Century
The Long Eighth Century

Author: Inge Lyse Hansen

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-11-22

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 9004473459

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The eighth century has not been analysed as a period of economic history since the 1930s, and is ripe for a comprehensive reassessment. The twelve papers in this book range over the whole of Europe and the Mediterranean from Denmark to Palestine, covering Francia, Italy and Byzantium on the way. They examine regional economies and associated political structures, that is to say the whole network of production, exchange, and social relations in each area. They offer both authoritative overviews of current work and new and original work. As a whole, they show how the eighth century was the first century when the post-Roman world can clearly be seen to have emerged, in the regional economies of each part of Europe.

Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 28
Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 28

Author: Michael Lapidge

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-06-22

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 9780521652032

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This volume is framed by articles that throw interesting light on the achievement and reputation of the greatest of Anglo-Saxon kings - Alfred.

A Gentle Introduction to Old English
A Gentle Introduction to Old English

Author: Murray McGillivray

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2010-12-20

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1460400941

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This book is designed to ease the beginner into competent reading of Old English texts. It presents the essential points of Old English grammar and also includes a selection of short, relatively simple original language texts, glossed and annotated. Numerous practice exercises are also included throughout. A companion website includes additional interactive exercises, a fuller grammar, and further original language texts.