The Viking Age: A Reader - Couverture souple

Somerville, Angus A.; McDonald, R. Andrew

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1487550057 ISBN 13 : 9781487550059

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2025

Synopsis

The fourth edition of The Viking Age provides an extensive deep dive into the world of the Vikings, spanning from the eighth and ninth centuries to the present, while also featuring key scholarly interpretations from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Building on the structure and content of previous editions, nearly every chapter has been reworked and expanded, with the addition of an entirely new chapter on commerce and trade. This edition broadens the range of materials while preserving the innovations of earlier editions and advancing them in new directions. In The Viking Age, readers are submerged in a comprehensive exploration of the Viking era, covering essential topics such as the role of women in Viking society, the significance of slavery in the Viking economy, commerce and trade, the use of Arabic sources, Viking religion, fertility gods, guardian spirits, the exploits of the Norse kings of Man and the Isles, the importance of Scandinavian and maritime law, the enduring legacy of the Vikings, and more. This extensively revised edition ultimately brings the Vikings and their world to life for twenty-first-century students and instructors.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Angus A. Somerville, now retired, formerly taught Old Norse and Anglo-Saxon at Brock University. Somerville was a contributor to the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary.
R. Andrew McDonald is Professor in the Department of History at Brock University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1487550057
• ISBN 13: 9781487550059
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 4
• Nombre de pages: 576
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible