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The Viking-Age Rune-Stones : Custom and Commemoration in Early Medieval Scandinavia.
There are over 3000 runic inscriptions on stone made in Scandinavia in the late Viking Age. This book is the first attempt by a historian to study the material as a whole. The analysis reveals significant regional variations that reflect different stages in the process of conversion, and the growth...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
OUP Oxford,
2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | There are over 3000 runic inscriptions on stone made in Scandinavia in the late Viking Age. This book is the first attempt by a historian to study the material as a whole. The analysis reveals significant regional variations that reflect different stages in the process of conversion, and the growth of royal power. Many monuments were declarations of faith or manifestations of status; but virtually all reflect inheritance claims, and cast unexpected light on the prehistory of theinheritance customs found in later Scandinavian law codes. The results of this analysis make a significant contributi. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (292 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-269). |
| ISBN: | 9780191542541 0191542547 9786610445288 6610445281 |