Viking Empires

Name: Viking Empires
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ISBN: 9780521829922

ISBN-10: 0521829925

ISBN-13: 9780521829922

Edition: 2005

Authors: Angelo Forte, Richard Oram, Frederik Pedersen

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Viking Empires is a definitive new history of five hundred years of Viking civilization and the first study of the global implications of the expansion, integration, and reorientation of the Viking World. From the first contact in the 790s, the book traces the political, military, social, cultural and religious history of the Viking Age from Iceland to Lithuania. The authors show that it is no longer possible to understand the history of the Norman Conquest, the successes of David I of Scotland, or German settlement in Poland, Prussia and the Baltic States without integrating the internal history of Scandinavia. The book concludes with a new account of the end of the Viking era, arguing…

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List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/5/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 462
Size: 7.01" wide x 10.00" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 2.332

Richard Oram 's publications include Scotland's Kings and Queens.




Viking raiders, Scandinavian Kingdoms and the wider world



The Beginnings



First contact: England and the continent



Ireland and Scotland



A Water World



Conquest and integration, c.950-1260



The second Viking age in England, c.970-1066



The Irish Sea



Scotland and the Vikings



Orkney and Shetland



Crossing the North Atlantic



Sailing the North Atlantic



Scandinavia and European integration: reform and rebirth



Conclusion