The Viking World, Stefan Brink
The Viking World, Stefan Brink
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The Viking World

Author: Stefan Brink, Neil Price

Narrator: Nigel Patterson

Unabridged: 29 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/30/2024


Synopsis

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 material of particular interest, this comprehensive volume 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.

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nighteye on May 07, 2013

My teacher in the viking course have right! It's the BEST BOOK you can get on the subject and even if it's texts are highly academic they have such big amounts of information which ISEN'T included in many of the other ones touching this subjects (not at lest the other five ones I've read during the......more

Goodreads review by Nick on March 07, 2024

Bought this when studying for my degree and finally finished it. Probably a bit outdated now but it’s full of essays offering glimpses into different aspects of Viking history. A great starting point for anyone who wants to learn more about Vikings and the world they lived in.......more

Goodreads review by Sage on July 31, 2019

I have mixed feelings about this collection. Highlights: SO many bibliographies for further research, a pretty great dig report, some excellent study of pre-Christian religion, the settlement and decline of Greenland, some very nice historiography concerning analystic studies... Lowlights revolved a......more

Goodreads review by 411Junkie on September 05, 2017

I found the compilation of essays provided a great insight and perspective to Viking history. It covered all general areas, going into details in some, which provided a solid overview on the information available to the historical community. This is a great start for anyone who is interested in a cl......more

Goodreads review by Savannah on June 01, 2016

Everything you'd want to know about Vikings, and about 200% more. All of the essays are engaging and not written in an overly academic way. Lots of interesting insight, although you soon come to realize that the answer to the question "what do we know about the Vikings?" is "Not much, but...."......more