Women in the Viking Age - Couverture souple

Jesch, Judith

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0851153607 ISBN 13 : 9780851153605

Editeur : The Boydell Press, 1991

Synopsis

Through runic inscriptions and behind the veil of myth, Jesch discovers the true story of viking women.

Well-illustrated, closely argued and fascinating. GUARDIAN

This is the first book-length study in English to investigate what women did in the Viking age, both at home in Scandinavia and in the Viking colonies from Greenland to Russia. Evidence for their lives is fragmentary, but Judith Jesch assembles the clues provided by archaeology, runic inscriptions, place names and personal names, foreign historical records and Old Norse literature and mythology. These sources illuminate different aspects of women's lives in the Viking age, on the farms and in the trading centres of Scandinavia, abroad on Viking expeditions, and as settlers in places such as Iceland and the British Isles. Women in the Viking Age explores an unfamiliar aspect of medieval history and offers a new perspective on Viking society, very different from the traditional picture of a violent and male-dominated world.

JUDITH JESCH is Reader in Viking Studies at the University of Nottingham.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Boydell Press
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0851153607
• ISBN 13: 9780851153605
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 248
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