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Stefan Brink - The Viking World - 9780415692625 - V9780415692625
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The Viking World

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Description for The Viking World Paperback. 'The Viking World' is a one-stop authoritative introduction to the latest research in the field and covers such wide-ranging topics as social institutions, spatial issues, the Viking Age economy, warfare, beliefs, language, voyages, and links with medieval and Christian Europe. Editor(s): Brink, Stefan; Price, Neil. Num Pages: 744 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DN; 3H; HBLC1; HDDM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 246 x 175 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1296.

Filling a gap in the literature for an academically oriented volume on the Viking period, this unique book is a one-stop authoritative introduction to all the latest research in the field.

Bringing together today’s leading scholars, both established seniors and younger, cutting-edge academics, Stefan Brink and Neil Price have constructed the first single work to gather innovative research from a spectrum of disciplines (including archaeology, history, philology, comparative religion, numismatics and cultural geography) to create the most comprehensive Viking Age book of its kind ever attempted.

Consisting of longer articles providing overviews of important themes, supported by shorter papers focusing on ... Read more

This original work, specifically oriented towards a university audience and the educated public, will have a self-evident place as an undergraduate course book and will be a standard work of reference for all those in the field.

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Product Details

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
744
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
1315g
Number of Pages
744
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415692625
SKU
V9780415692625
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-5

About Stefan Brink
Stefan Brink is Professor of Scandinavian Studies and Director of Centre for Scandinavian Studies at the University of Aberdeen. Neil Price is Associate Professor of Archaeology, Conservation, and Historical Studies at Oslo University, and Docent in Archaeology at The University of Uppsala, Sweden.  

Reviews for The Viking World
‘Editors Brink and Price are to be commended for coordinating this impressive volume. The book is large and learned, intended as a reference work for scholars and serious students of Scandinavia in the Viking Age. Lay readers with a keen interest in the Vikings will also wish to have this reference work, not only for the wealth of information, but ... Read more

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