Vikings of the Steppe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Vikings of the Steppe write by Csete Katona. This book was released on 2022-09-28. Vikings of the Steppe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the relationship between Vikings, Rus’ and nomadic (mostly Turkic) steppe dwellers during the course of the Viking Age (c. 750–1050) in a geographical area stretching from Eastern Scandinavia through the Kievan Rus’, Byzantium, the Islamic world to the Western Eurasian steppes. The primary focus is the steppe influence on the development of Scandinavian-Rus’ culture. It illustrates the effects of Turkic (nomadic) cultures on the evolving Scandinavian-Rus’ communities in their military technology and tactics, as well as in everyday customs, ritual traditions and religious perceptions, whilst paying attention to the politico-commercial necessities and possible communication channels tying these two cultures, normally considered to be distinct, together. The arguments are supported by a multi-disciplinary analysis of diverse historical and archaeological materials occasionally supplemented with linguistic evidence. The result is a comprehensive evaluation of the relations of the Scandinavians active in the ‘East’ with Turkic groups, and brings (the so far neglected) steppes into Viking studies in general. The book will fill a serious scholarly gap in the field of Viking studies and will be read by both academics and students interested in the archaeological and historical sources concerned with the traditions of the ‘Eastern Vikings’.
"The Secretary of War Shares Your Grief-- "
"The Secretary of War Shares Your Grief-- " - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook "The Secretary of War Shares Your Grief-- " write by Warren C. Sheldon. This book was released on 2000. "The Secretary of War Shares Your Grief-- " available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Viking Market Kingdom in Ireland and Britain
A Viking Market Kingdom in Ireland and Britain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Viking Market Kingdom in Ireland and Britain write by Tom Horne. This book was released on 2021-12-30. A Viking Market Kingdom in Ireland and Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Viking-Age trade, network theory, silver economies, kingdom formation, and the Scandinavian raiding and settlement of Ireland and Britain are all popular subjects. However, few have looked for possible connections between these phenomena, something this book suggests were closely related. By allying Blomkvist’s network-kingdoms with Sindbæk’s nodal market-networks, it is argued that the political and economic character of Viking-Age Britain and Ireland – my ‘Insular Scandinavia’ – is best understood if Dublin and Jórvík are seen as being established as nodes of a market-based network-kingdom. Based on a dataset relating to the then developing bullion economies of the central and eastern Scandinavian worlds and southern Scandinavia in particular, it is argued that war-band leaders from, or familiar with, ‘Danish’ markets like Hedeby and Kaupang transposed to Insular Scandinavia the concept of polities based on establishment of markets and the protection of routeways between them. Using this book, readers can think of interlinked Dublin and Great Army elites creating an Insular version of a Danish-style nodal market kingdom based on commerce and silver currencies. A Viking Market Kingdom in Ireland and Britain will help specialist researchers and students of Viking archaeology make connections between southern Scandinavia and the market economy of the Uí Ímair (‘descendants of Ívarr’) operating out of the twin nodes of Dublin and Jórvík via the initial establishment of Hiberno-Scandinavian longphuirt and the related winter-camps of the Viking Great Army.
The Viking Diaspora
The Viking Diaspora - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Viking Diaspora write by Judith Jesch. This book was released on 2015-06-05. The Viking Diaspora available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Viking Diaspora presents the early medieval migrations of people, language and culture from mainland Scandinavia to new homes in the British Isles, the North Atlantic, the Baltic and the East as a form of ‘diaspora’. It discusses the ways in which migrants from Russia in the east to Greenland in the west were conscious of being connected not only to the people and traditions of their homelands, but also to other migrants of Scandinavian origin in many other locations. Rather than the movements of armies, this book concentrates on the movements of people and the shared heritage and culture that connected them. This on-going contact throughout half a millennium can be traced in the laws, literatures, material culture and even environment of the various regions of the Viking diaspora. Judith Jesch considers all of these connections, and highlights in detail significant forms of cultural contact including gender, beliefs and identities. Beginning with an overview of Vikings and the Viking Age, the nature of the evidence available, and a full exploration of the concept of ‘diaspora’, the book then provides a detailed demonstration of the appropriateness of the term to the world peopled by Scandinavians. This book is the first to explain Scandinavian expansion using this model, and presents the Viking Age in a new and exciting way for students of Vikings and medieval history.
Legend of the Last Vikings - Taklamakan
Legend of the Last Vikings - Taklamakan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Legend of the Last Vikings - Taklamakan write by John David Halsted. This book was released on 2006-12-15. Legend of the Last Vikings - Taklamakan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As the Viking age is brought to an end in 1066 with ignominious defeat at the battle of Stamford Bridge, a ragtag group of Vikings concludes the quiet life is not for them and decides to go-a-Viking one last time across the European Steppe heading for Byzantium.
