Vikings
Vikings

Author: Tristan Mueller-Vollmer

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2022-03-29

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1440877300

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For three centuries, the Vikings changed the political world of northern and western Europe. This encyclopedia explores exactly how they did it in a highly readable and informative resource volume. How did the Vikings know when to strike? What were their military strengths? Who were their leaders? What was the impact of their raids? These and many more questions are answered in this volume, which will benefit students and general readers alike. The only encyclopedia devoted specifically to the topic of conflict, invasions, and raids in the Viking Age, this book presents detailed coverage of the Vikings, who are infamous for their violent marauding across Europe during the early Middle Ages. Featuring extracts of poetry and prose from the Viking Age, the book provides cultural context in addition to an in-depth analysis of Viking military practices.

The Vikings
The Vikings

Author: Kirsten Wolf

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2018-09-14

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1440862990

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This book explores 11 popular misconceptions about the Vikings. Each chapter looks at a particular misconception, examines how it became popular, discusses what we now believe to be the truth, and provides excerpts from primary source documents. When people think of the Vikings, they often envision marauding barbarians who lived violent lives. While a number of mistaken beliefs about the Vikings have become engrained in popular culture, they are not grounded in historical facts. This book examines popular misconceptions related to the Vikings and the historical truths that contradict the fictions. The book discusses 11 mistaken notions about the Vikings, with each fiction treated in its own chapter. Topics include whether the Vikings wore horned helmets, whether they were unhygienic, whether they had primitive weapons, whether they drank out of skull cups, and more. Each chapter examines how the misconception proliferated and discusses what we now believe to be the facts contradicting the fictions. Excerpts from primary source documents help readers to understand how the misconceptions came to be throughout history and provide evidence for the historical truths.

The Vikings Reimagined
The Vikings Reimagined

Author: Tom Birkett

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-01-20

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1501513885

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The Vikings Reimagined explores the changing perception of Norse and Viking cultures across different cultural forms, and the complex legacy of the Vikings in the present day. Bringing together experts in literature, history and heritage engagement, this highly interdisciplinary collection aims to reconsider the impact of the discipline of Old Norse Viking Studies outside the academy and to broaden our understanding of the ways in which the material and textual remains of the Viking Age are given new meanings in the present. The diverse collection draws attention to the many roles that the Vikings play across contemporary culture: from the importance of Viking tourism, to the role of Norse sub-cultures in the formation of local and international identities. Together these collected essays challenge the academy to rethink its engagement with popular reiterations of the Vikings and to reassess the position afforded to ‘reception’ within the discipline.

The Vikings on Film
The Vikings on Film

Author: Kevin J. Harty

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 0786486384

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Factual and fanciful tales of the Nordic warriors known as Vikings have proven irresistible to filmmakers for nearly a century. Diverse, prominent actors from Kirk Douglas, Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier to Tim Robbins and John Cleese, and noted directors, including Richard Fleischer, Clive Donner and Terry Jones, have all lent their talents to Viking-related films. These fourteen essays on films dealing with the Viking era discuss American, British and European productions. Analyzed in detail are such films as The Vikings (1958), The Long Ships (1964), Alfred the Great (1969), Erik the Viking (1989) and Outlander (2008), as well as two comic-strip adaptations, the 1954 and 1989 films of Prince Valiant and the animated Asterix and the Vikings (2006). A comprehensive filmography is also included.

Participatory Heritage
Participatory Heritage

Author: Henriette Roued-Cunliffe

Publisher: Facet Publishing

Published: 2017-01-18

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1783301236

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The internet as a platform for facilitating human organization without the need for organizations has, through social media, created new challenges for cultural heritage institutions. Challenges include but are not limited to: how to manage copyright, ownership, orphan works, open data access to heritage representations and artefacts, crowdsourcing, cultural heritage amateurs, information as a commodity or information as public domain, sustainable preservation, attitudes towards openness and much more. Participatory Heritage uses a selection of international case studies to explore these issues and demonstrates that in order for personal and community-based documentation and artefacts to be preserved and included in social and collective histories, individuals and community groups need the technical and knowledge infrastructures of support that formal cultural institutions can provide. In other words, both groups need each other. Divided into three core sections, this book explores: - Participants in the preservation of cultural heritage; exploring heritage institutions and organizations, community archives and group - Challenges; including discussion of giving voices to communities, social inequality, digital archives, data and online sharing - Solutions; discussing open access and APIs, digital postcards, the case for collaboration, digital storytelling and co-designing heritage practice. Readership: This book will be useful reading for individuals working in cultural institutions such as libraries, museums, archives and historical societies. It will also be of interest to students taking library, archive and cultural heritage courses.

World Film Locations: Malta
World Film Locations: Malta

Author: Jean Pierre Borg

Publisher: Intellect Books

Published: 2015-12-01

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1783204990

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Malta has served as a beautiful backdrop for films for nearly as long as there has been a film industry. This entry in the World Film Locations series traces the history of Malta on screen, from bigbudget blockbusters to modest indie pictures. The locations Malta offers range widely, from grand fortified harbours and stunning cliffs to quaint villages and Baroque palaces. That diversity has enabled the island to double for countless locations, including ancient Troy and Alexandria, as well as Greece, Israel, and other Mediterranean and Middle Eastern regions, while its well-known water tanks have proved to be perfect for shooting ocean scenes. Packed with illustrations, World Film Locations: Malta examines a number of films made in Malta, and will be a must-read for tourists, film buffs and scholars alike.

Love is Rage
Love is Rage

Author: Shanna Bell

Publisher: Bell Press

Published: 2020-03-15

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13:

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Sixteen years ago, Elena had to betray Viking in order to save him. Now, he’s hungry for revenge against the woman who was once his obsession. As he takes her captive and seeks to break her, a dark desire reignites… Could you give love a second chance after a betrayal? Elena. Viking is the love of my life. I both saved and betrayed him. Now, I'm at his mercy. One look in his eyes and I know he wants to break me. Fight or flight? Viking. Elena was the love of my life, my obsession, and my ruin. Sixteen years ago, she betrayed me by marrying my enemy. Now, I discover her betrayal didn't end there; she stole my kid. I’m gonna take away her future, just like she took mine. Note: - This book contains some traumas. If this offends you, please skip this one in the series. - It can be read as a stand-alone. No cliffhanger. For fans of Monica James, Natasha Knight, Julia Sykes, CD Reiss, Aleatha Romig, Skye Warren, Anna Zaires, Renee Rose, Carrie Ann Ryan, Penelope Ward, Lauren Blakely, Meghan March, Vanessa Vale, Katee Robert. Topics: adult romance, alpha male, romantic suspense, romance series, bad boy romance, emotional read, contemporary romance, inspirational romance, mafia romance, romance audiobook, second chance at love, sexually romantic books, contemporary romance books, revenge romance, steamy romance books, hidden pregnancy romance.