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Book East Baltic Regional Coinage

    Book Details:
  • Author : John S. Davenport
  • Publisher : Numismatic International, Incorporated
  • Release : 1996-01-01
  • ISBN : 9781889172200
  • Pages : 104 pages

Download or read book East Baltic Regional Coinage written by John S. Davenport and published by Numismatic International, Incorporated. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In Austrvegr  The Role of the Eastern Baltic in Viking Age Communication across the Baltic Sea

Download or read book In Austrvegr The Role of the Eastern Baltic in Viking Age Communication across the Baltic Sea written by Marika Mägi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Early Slavic Studies Association 2018 Book Prize This volume offers a novel, trans-regional vision of Viking Age (9th-11th century) cultural and political contacts between Scandinavia and the eastern coasts of the Baltic Sea, using predominantly archaeological evidence, combined with historical sources, topography and logistical considerations.

Book The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age written by Colin Haselgrove and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 1425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age presents a broad overview of current understanding of the archaeology of Europe from 1000 BC through to the early historic periods, exploiting the large quantities of new evidence yielded by the upsurge in archaeological research and excavation on this period over the last thirty years. Three introductory chapters situate the reader in the times and the environments of Iron Age Europe. Fourteen regional chapters provide accessible syntheses of developments in different parts of the continent, from Ireland and Spain in the west to the borders with Asia in the east, from Scandinavia in the north to the Mediterranean shores in the south. Twenty-six thematic chapters examine different aspects of Iron Age archaeology in greater depth, from lifeways, economy, and complexity to identity, ritual, and expression. Among the many topics explored are agricultural systems, settlements, landscape monuments, iron smelting and forging, production of textiles, politics, demography, gender, migration, funerary practices, social and religious rituals, coinage and literacy, and art and design.

Book Northern Gold

    Book Details:
  • Author : Audronė Bliujienė
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2011-11-11
  • ISBN : 9004217355
  • Pages : 466 pages

Download or read book Northern Gold written by Audronė Bliujienė and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thi study presents a systematic analysis of the huge, and in most cases, completely new archaeological evidence for amber from Lithuania and the surrounding regions. A comprehensive synthesis of archaeological evidence and written sources provides an opportunity to develop new viewpoints about the sources of amber, extraction methods and amber-wearing.

Book Identity Formation and Diversity in the Early Medieval Baltic and Beyond

Download or read book Identity Formation and Diversity in the Early Medieval Baltic and Beyond written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-01-05 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Identity Formation and Diversity in the Early Medieval Baltic and Beyond, the Viking World in the East is made more heterogeneous. Baltic Finnic groups, Balts and Sami are integrated into the history dominated by Scandinavians and Slavs. Interaction in the region between Eastern Middle Sweden, Finland, Estonia and North Western Russia is set against varied cultural expressions of identities. Ten scholars approach the topic from different angles, with case studies on the roots of diversity, burials with horses, Staraya Ladoga as a nodal point of long-distance routes, Rus’ warrior identities, early Eastern Christianity, interaction between the Baltic Finns and the Svear, the first phases of ar-Rus dominion, the distribution of Carolingian swords, and Dirhams in the Baltic region. Contributors are Johan Callmer, Ingrid Gustin, Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson, Valter Lang, John Howard Lind, Marika Mägi, Mats Roslund, Søren Sindbaek, Anne Stalsberg, and Tuukka Talvio.

Book The Numismatist

Download or read book The Numismatist written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 24-52 include the proceedings of the A.N.A. convention. 1911-39.

Book Baltic Crusades and Societal Innovation in Medieval Livonia  1200 1350

Download or read book Baltic Crusades and Societal Innovation in Medieval Livonia 1200 1350 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-25 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The societies of the lands around the Baltic Sea underwent remarkable changes in the thirteenth century. This book examines aspects of these religious, economical, societal, and institutional innovations, such as the adaption of the Christianity, emergence of urban life, and the development of economic resources.

Book The Routledge Handbook of East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages  500 1300

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages 500 1300 written by Florin Curta and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500–1300 is the first of its kind to provide a point of reference for the history of the whole of Eastern Europe during the Middle Ages. While historians have recognized the importance of integrating the eastern part of the European continent into surveys of the Middle Ages, few have actually paid attention to the region, its specific features, problems of chronology and historiography. This vast region represents more than two-thirds of the European continent, but its history in general—and its medieval history in particular—is poorly known. This book covers the history of the whole region, from the Balkans to the Carpathian Basin, and the Bohemian Forest to the Finnish Bay. It provides an overview of the current state of research and a route map for navigating an abundant historiography available in more than ten different languages. Chapters cover topics as diverse as religion, architecture, art, state formation, migration, law, trade and the experiences of women and children. This book is an essential reference for scholars and students of medieval history, as well as those interested in the history of Central and Eastern Europe.

Book Warman s Coins   Paper Money

Download or read book Warman s Coins Paper Money written by Allen G. Berman and published by Warman's. This book was released on 2002 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated reference guide for all types of currency found throughout history and around the world, with up-to-date pricing.

Book Khazaria in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries

Download or read book Khazaria in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries written by Boris Zhivkov and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-04-29 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Khazaria in the Ninth and the Tenth Centuries Boris Zhivkov offers a new view on Khazaria by scrutinizing the different visions offered by recent scholarship. The paucity of written sources has made it necessary to turn to additional information about the steppe states in this period, and to analyze exceptional cases not directly related to the Khazars. In re-examining the Khazars, he thus uses not only the known documentary sources and archaeological finds but also what we know from history of religions (comparative mythology), history of art, structural anthropology and folklore studies. In this way the book draws together a synthesis of conclusions, information and theory.

Book A Viking Market Kingdom in Ireland and Britain

Download or read book A Viking Market Kingdom in Ireland and Britain written by Tom Horne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Baltic Sea Region

Download or read book The Baltic Sea Region written by Witold Maciejewski and published by Baltic University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Warman s Coins   Currency

Download or read book Warman s Coins Currency written by Allen G. Berman and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive guide is the only one of its kind to include both coins and paper money in one volume. With detailed, updated price listings and over 500 photos, this book makes identifying simple for beginners and experienced numismatists alike

Book The Long Sixth Century in Eastern Europe

Download or read book The Long Sixth Century in Eastern Europe written by Florin Curta and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-05-12 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Long Sixth Century in Eastern Europe, Florin Curta offers a social and economic history of East Central, South-Eastern and Eastern Europe during the 6th and 7th centuries.

Book Islam in the Baltic

    Book Details:
  • Author : Harry Norris
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2009-03-30
  • ISBN : 0857713795
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book Islam in the Baltic written by Harry Norris and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-30 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TAS - please do not use this blurb in its raw form ????? Arriving in Europe in the 14th Century, the Qipch?q Tatars are the longest surviving Muslim people in Europe. They form the historical core of the Muslim community in the Baltic States, Belarus and Poland where the Muslim communities in these countries are small compared with those in other parts of the European Union and in Russia. Here Harry Norris investigates the earliest contacts between the Baltic peoples and the World of Islam in the Middle East. He surveys their history, their Islamic beliefs, their culture, their literature and their life in New Europe today. He draws contrasts and similarities between other Muslim communities in Europe, including the diverse Muslim groups in the Nordic countries that border the Baltic Sea; Finland, Sweden and Denmark. This book is of vital interest to those studying the rich cultural heritage of minority groups of European Muslims and their position in Europe today. It examines the trade routes of the Vikings and the early Slavs and Balts who had commercial relations with Arab merchants and where the currency of the Caliphate is evidence for the trade in amber, furs and Middle Eastern silks and other luxury goods. The Tatars and the Jewish Qipch?qs arrived in these countries during the 14th century. They were brought here by the Grand Duke of Lithuania, Duke Vytautas (Witold)(1396-1430). During the Jagellon dynasty and centuries later the settlement of these Muslim Tatars was to continue. They became farmers and soldiers and they rose to a high status in the royal estates of Poland. Despite this assimilation, they resolutely retained their Muslim identity. For centuries these Tatar communities, in size, were second only to the large Jewish communities in this part of Europe. But from the 19th century, amidst wars, partition and genocide their numbers declined. During the age of the Soviet Union other Muslim communities have come to settle in these lands and they now threaten to outnumber the Tatars who have lived there for centuries. This book describes the Tatars and these other Muslims. It surveys their history, their Islamic beliefs, their culture, their literature and their life in New Europe today. There are, of course, other Muslim communities, larger in number and more diverse, in Nordic countries that border the Baltic Sea; Finland, Sweden and Denmark. These are also discussed in the contents of this book revealing contrasts and similarities and past contacts between the Tatars and the Muslims of Scandinavia. This is the first book in English on this subject where sources of information elsewhere are in Polish. Russian, Byelorussian, and Lithuanian. Its author has travelled extensively in the region supported by grants and exchange agreements of the British Academy. This book contains a Glossary and an extensive Bibliography. Its content will be of interest to those whose studies are in the fields of Eastern European culture and history, Religious Studies, Islam in Europe, and the kindred Muslim communities that are to be found in Russia and in Central Asia, today.

Book The Interactions of Amsterdam and Antwerp with the Baltic region  1400   1800

Download or read book The Interactions of Amsterdam and Antwerp with the Baltic region 1400 1800 written by Wiert Jan Wieringa and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Britain and Poland Lithuania

Download or read book Britain and Poland Lithuania written by Richard Unger and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-05-02 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-four papers deal with various aspects of the economies, politics, religion, art, and culture of Britain and Poland-Lithuania from the Middle Ages down to the Third Partition, illustrating unexpected similarities and long-standing ties between the two regions.