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Book Factum pour M  l   v  que d Auxerre    contre M  le duc de Nevers

Download or read book Factum pour M l v que d Auxerre contre M le duc de Nevers written by Eglise catholique. Diocèse and published by . This book was released on 1698 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Factum pour Monsieur le Duc d Elboeuf contre Monsieur le Duc de Vandosme

Download or read book Factum pour Monsieur le Duc d Elboeuf contre Monsieur le Duc de Vandosme written by and published by . This book was released on 1651 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Factum Pour Monsieur Le Duc D Elboeuf Contre Monsieur Le Duc De Vandosme

Download or read book Factum Pour Monsieur Le Duc D Elboeuf Contre Monsieur Le Duc De Vandosme written by and published by . This book was released on 1651 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Factum pour M  le duc d Elboeuf contre M  le duc de Vandosme

Download or read book Factum pour M le duc d Elboeuf contre M le duc de Vandosme written by César duc de Vendôme and published by . This book was released on 1651 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Factum pour Monsieur le duc d Elboeuf  Contre Monsieur le duc de Vendosme

Download or read book Factum pour Monsieur le duc d Elboeuf Contre Monsieur le duc de Vendosme written by and published by . This book was released on 1651 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Factum pour M  Le Duc d Elbeuf contre M  Le Duc de Vend  me

Download or read book Factum pour M Le Duc d Elbeuf contre M Le Duc de Vend me written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Viking Diaspora

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  • Author : Judith Jesch
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2015-06-05
  • ISBN : 1317482530
  • Pages : 303 pages

Download or read book The Viking Diaspora written by Judith Jesch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Viking Diaspora presents the early medieval migrations of people, language and culture from mainland Scandinavia to new homes in the British Isles, the North Atlantic, the Baltic and the East as a form of ‘diaspora’. It discusses the ways in which migrants from Russia in the east to Greenland in the west were conscious of being connected not only to the people and traditions of their homelands, but also to other migrants of Scandinavian origin in many other locations. Rather than the movements of armies, this book concentrates on the movements of people and the shared heritage and culture that connected them. This on-going contact throughout half a millennium can be traced in the laws, literatures, material culture and even environment of the various regions of the Viking diaspora. Judith Jesch considers all of these connections, and highlights in detail significant forms of cultural contact including gender, beliefs and identities. Beginning with an overview of Vikings and the Viking Age, the nature of the evidence available, and a full exploration of the concept of ‘diaspora’, the book then provides a detailed demonstration of the appropriateness of the term to the world peopled by Scandinavians. This book is the first to explain Scandinavian expansion using this model, and presents the Viking Age in a new and exciting way for students of Vikings and medieval history.

Book Vikings in the South

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  • Author : Ann Christys
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2015-08-27
  • ISBN : 1474213774
  • Pages : 183 pages

Download or read book Vikings in the South written by Ann Christys and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the ninth century, Vikings carried out raids on the Christian north and Muslim south of the Iberian peninsula (modern Spain and Portugal), going on to attack North Africa, southern Francia and Italy and perhaps sailing as far as Byzantium. A century later, Vikings killed a bishop of Santiago de Compostela and harried the coasts of al-Andalus. Most of the raids after this date were small in scale, but several heroes of the Old Norse sagas were said to have raided in the peninsula. These Vikings have been only a footnote to the history of the Viking Age. Many stories about their activities survive only in elaborate versions written centuries after the event, and in Arabic. This book reconsiders the Arabic material as part of a dossier that also includes Latin chronicles and charters as well as archaeological and place-name evidence. Arabic authors and their Latin contemporaries remembered Vikings in Iberia in surprisingly similar ways. How they did so sheds light on contemporary responses to Vikings throughout the medieval world.

Book The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings

Download or read book The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings written by P. H. Sawyer and published by Oxford Illustrated History. This book was released on 2001 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Were the Vikings, as an early description had it, a 'valiant, wrathful, foreign, purely pagan people' who swept in from the sea to plunder and slaughter? Or in the words of a Manx folksong, "war-wolves keen in hungry quest', who lived and died by the sea and the sword? Or were they unusually successful merchants, extortionists, and pioneer explorers? This book considers the latest research and presents an authoritative account of the Vikings and their age. Excavations as far apart as Dublin and Newfoundland, York and Russia, provide fascinating archaeological evidence, expertly interpreted in this extensively illustrated book.

Book Vikings and the Danelaw

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  • Author : James Graham-Campbell
  • Publisher : Oxbow Books
  • Release : 2016-11-30
  • ISBN : 1785704532
  • Pages : 657 pages

Download or read book Vikings and the Danelaw written by James Graham-Campbell and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of papers from the 13th Viking Congress focusing on the northern, central, and eastern regions of Anglo-Saxon England colonised by invading Danish armies in the late 9th century, known as the Danelaw. This volume contributes to many of the unresolved scholarly debates surrounding the concept, and extent of the Danelaw.

Book Monarchs and Hydrarchs

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  • Author : Christian Cooijmans
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2020-03-13
  • ISBN : 0429535821
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Monarchs and Hydrarchs written by Christian Cooijmans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the politico-economic exploits of vikings in and around the Frankish realm remain, to a considerable extent, obscured by the constraints of a fragmentary and biased corpus of (near-)contemporary evidence, this volume approaches the available interdisciplinary data on a cumulative and conceptual level, allowing overall spatiotemporal patterns of viking activity to be detected and defined – and thereby challenging the notion that these movements were capricious, haphazard, and gratuitous in character. Set against a backdrop of continuous commerce and knowledge exchange, this overarching survey demonstrates the existence of a relatively uniform, sequential framework of wealth extraction, encampment, and political engagement, within which Scandinavian fleets operated as adaptable, ambulant polities – or ‘hydrarchies’. By delineating and visualising this framework, a four-phased conceptual development model of hydrarchic conduct and consequence is established, whose validity is substantiated by its application to a number of distinct regional case studies. The parameters of this abstract model affirm that Scandinavian movements across Francia were the result of prudent and expedient decision-making processes, contingent on exchanged intelligence, cumulative experience, and the ongoing individual and collective need for socioeconomic subsistence and enrichment. Monarchs and Hydrarchs will appeal to both students and specialists of the Viking Age, whilst serving as an equally valuable resource to those investigating early medieval Francia, Scandinavia, and the North Sea world as a whole.

Book Anglo Norman Studies XXXV

Download or read book Anglo Norman Studies XXXV written by David Bates and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles in this volume focus on aspects of the history of the duchy of Normandy. Their topics include arguments for a new approach to the history of early Normandy, Norman abbesses, and the proposition that Robert Curthose was effectively written out of the duchy's history.

Book From Pictland to Alba  789 1070

Download or read book From Pictland to Alba 789 1070 written by Alex Woolf and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-26 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 780s northern Britain was dominated by two great kingdoms; Pictavia, centred in north-eastern Scotland and Northumbria which straddled the modern Anglo-Scottish border. Within a hundred years both of these kingdoms had been thrown into chaos by the onslaught of the Vikings and within two hundred years they had become distant memories. This book charts the transformation of the political landscape of northern Britain between the eighth and the eleventh centuries. Central to this narrative is the mysterious disappearance of the Picts and their language and the sudden rise to prominence of the Gaelic-speaking Scots who would replace them as the rulers of the North. From Pictland to Alba uses fragmentary sources which survive from this darkest period in Scottish history to guide the reader past the pitfalls which beset the unwary traveller in these dangerous times. Important sources are presented in full and their value as evidence is thoroughly explored and evaluated.

Book Dudo of Saint Quentin s Historia Normannorum

Download or read book Dudo of Saint Quentin s Historia Normannorum written by Benjamin Pohl and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2015 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When Dudo of Saint-Quentin's Historia Normannorum first appeared in or around 1015, written for the then Duke of Normandy, Richard II, Dudo created a text without precedent. By committing the lives and deeds of Richard II's ancestors to written memory for the first time since the foundation of Normandy under the Viking Rollo in 911, Dudo provided the Norman court at Rouen with both an official dynastic historiography and a treasured record of their collective past. The Historia Normannorum was conceived, from the outset, as an idiosyncratic text which purported to be both staunchly traditional and remarkably innovative. By means of a pioneering transdisciplinary combination of Historical Studies, Manuscript Studies, Literary Theory and Cultural Memory Studies, this book explores medieval historiography through a unique and highly innovative lens. The analysis showcases the Historia Normannorum's status as one of the most formative historical narratives of the Middle Ages, one which may even provide the earliest surviving example of an illustrated chronicle from the entire Latin West."--Back cover.

Book Medieval Scandinavia

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  • Author : Birgit Sawyer
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780816617395
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Medieval Scandinavia written by Birgit Sawyer and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of Scandinavia has been, and still is, deeply influenced by the interpretation of its earliest history that was developed in the 19th century by political, legal, and literary historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists. Scandinavia figured prominently in discussions of early medieval Europe, not only as the homeland of the Vikings, but also as the region in which Germanic society remained uncontaminated by Christianity and other influences longer than anywhere else. In "Medieval Scandinavia", Birgit and Peter Sawyer question assumptions about early Scandinavian history, including the supposed leading role of free and equal peasants and their position in founding churches. They meticulously trace the development of Scandinavia from the early ninth century through the second and third decades of the 16th century, when rulers of Scandinavia rejected the authority of the Papacy and the attempt to establish a united Scandinavian monarchy finally collapsed. The authors include a discussion of medieval history writing and comment on the use of history in the 16th century and modern attitudes to medieval history which differ in various parts of Scandinavia. They ultimately conclude that historic Scandinavia held greater similarities to other European regions than has been commonly supposed. Birgit Sawyer is one of the founders of the biennial interdisciplinary conferences on women in medieval Scandinavia. Peter Sawyer's previous books include "Kings and Vikings" and "The Age of the Vikings".

Book England and the Continent in the Tenth Century

Download or read book England and the Continent in the Tenth Century written by David W. Rollason and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series focuses on Western Europe in the Early Middle Ages and covers work in the areas of history, Language & literature, archaeology, art history and religious studies. It brings together current scholarship on early medieval Britain with scholarship on western continental Europe and Viking Scandinavia; these areas have more traditionally been studied separately or in terms of the interaction of discrete cultures and regions. As well as advocating new approaches across geographical and political divisions, this series spans the conventional distinctions between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages on the one hand, and the Early Middle Ages and the twelfth Century on the other.

Book Medieval Knighthood IV

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christopher Harper-Bill
  • Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9780851153193
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Medieval Knighthood IV written by Christopher Harper-Bill and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1992 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latest research on the chivalric ethos of western Europe 10c-15c. from the practical [houses, armour], to the intellectual [concept of holy war, loyalty, etc.]