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The Vikings : a very short introduction /
The Viking reputation is of bloodthirsty seafaring warriors, yet they were also traders, settlers, and farmers, who have been variously perceived as poets, explorers, democrats, and statesmen. Julian Richards uses the latest archaeological evidence to reveal the whole Viking world, and examines thei...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Colección: | Very short introductions ;
137. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of illustrations; 1 Vikings then and now; 2 Early Scandinavian kingdoms; 3 Pagans and Christians; 4 Changes in the countryside; 5 Towns and trade; 6 Across the ocean: seafaring and overseas expansion; 7 Settlers in England; 8 Raiders and traders around the Irish Sea; 9 Vikings and Picts: genocide or assimilation?; 10 Landnám in the North Atlantic; 11 The edge of the world: Greenland and North America; 12 Reinventing the Vikings; Timeline; Further reading; Index.