Viking Connections: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Viking Congress (Viking Europe) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1805967428 ISBN 13: 9781805967422

Verlag: Liverpool University Press, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Viking Connections is an edited collection representing the most recent scholarship in the interdisciplinary study of the Viking Age. The 32 papers arise from the Nineteenth Viking Congress which took place in Wales and North-West England in July 2022. They focus on new research from across the Viking World encompassing Archaeology, History, Literature, Language, Place-names, Numismatics, and the History of Art. Themes include Irish Sea connections as well wider connections across the Viking World. There is also a Congress diary. The title Viking Connections expresses the importance of international networks and long-distance patterns of contact, which underlie both the Viking Age itself and our contemporary community of interdisciplinary scholarship. Contributors include senior academics, early career researchers, and museum and heritage professionals. The picture that emerges from this volume is of the Viking Age as a vibrant and complex period of movement and change. Highlights include James Graham-Campbell's survey of the metallic wealth of the Isle of Man, Mark Redknap's comprehensive account of Viking Age finds in Wales, Orri Vésteinsson's investigation of the effects that the introduction of large amounts of silver had on Viking Age society, Elizabeth Pierce's study that tracks the tenth- to twelfth-century Scandinavian presence in eastern Scotland whose evidence suggests substantial trading activity, Søren Sindbæk's demonstration of how radiocarbon calibration curves, when applied to the fine-meshed stratigraphy of Ribe, suggest a new chronological framework for the beginning of the Viking Age, and Christian Cooijmans' exploration of the idea of viking camps as not just military barracks, but sites where all aspects of everyday life went on, and which formed the basis of the whole viking phenomenon.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Liverpool University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1805967428
• ISBN 13: 9781805967422
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432
• Herausgeber: Downham Clare, Griffiths David, Edmonds Fiona, Edwards Nancy )
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