Tcne 04 Scandinavia and Europe 800-1350, Adams: Contact, Conflict, and Coexistence Tapa dura - 2004

Turnhout Brepols 2004. Hardback, XXII+369 p., 60 b/w ill., 160 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503510859. This volume examines the various forms of contact between Scandinavia and the rest of Europe from 800 to 1350. It consists of twenty-five papers from international scholars specialising in archaeology, onomastics, literature, art history, epigraphy, religious history and linguistics. The volume is innovative in three respects: (i) in transcending conventional historical boundaries, by bringing together work on both the viking and medieval periods; (ii) by examining the ways in which mainland Europe influenced Scandinavia (e.g. kingship, law and social organisation; and classical and continental literary traditions); and (iii) by synthesising all the material for an English-language readership for the first time. The broader timespan of investigation illustrates the changing nature of contact and the gradual integration of Scandinavia into European society: by 1350 Scandinavia was no longer a heathen outpost… Leer más

Brepols Publishers, 2004. 1st. hardcover. New. 104x16x152.