Download or read book The Fury of the Northmen written by John Marsden and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses contemporary accounts to describe the devastation inflicted in Northumbria by the ninth-century Viking attacks
Download or read book The Northmen s Fury written by Philip Parker and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Northmen's Fury tells the Viking story, from the first pinprick raids of the eighth century to the great armies that left their Scandinavian homelands to conquer larger parts of France, Britain and Ireland. It recounts the epic voyages that took them across the Atlantic to the icy fjords of Greenland and to North America over four centuries before Columbus and east to the great rivers of Russia and the riches of the Byzantine empire. One summer's day in 793, death arrived from the sea. The raiders who sacked the island monastery of Lindisfarne were the first Vikings, sea-borne attackers who brought two centuries of terror to northern Europe. Before long the sight of their dragon-prowed longships and the very name of Viking gave rise to fear and dread, so much so that monks were reputed to pray each night for delivery from 'the Northmen's Fury'. Yet for all their reputation as bloodthirsty warriors, the Vikings possessed a sophisticated culture that produced art of great beauty, literature of abiding power and kingdoms of surprising endurance. The Northmen's Fury describes how and why a region at the edge of Europe came to dominate and to terrorise much of the rest of the continent for nearly three centuries and how, in the end, the coming of Christianity and the growing power of kings tempered the Viking ferocity and stemmed the tide of raids. It relates the astonishing achievement of the Vikings in forging far-flung empires whose sinews were the sea and whose arteries were not roads but maritime trading routes. The blood of the Vikings runs in millions of veins in Europe and the Americas and the tale of their conquests, explorations and achievements continues to inspire people around the world.
Download or read book Fury of the Northmen written by Time-Life Books and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1988 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines Viking culture, golden age of Byzantine Empire, Japan, and South America"--Publisher's catalog.
Download or read book Fury of the Northmen written by Time-Life Books and published by Time Life Education. This book was released on 1988 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the cultures of the Vikings, the Japanese Byzantium, and the mound builders of the Americas during the medieval period
Download or read book The Northmen in Britain written by E. Hull and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Narration and Hero written by Victor Millet and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-07-28 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the early middle ages vernacular aristocratic traditions of heroic narration were firmly established in Western and Northern Europe. Although there are regional, linguistic and formal differences, one can observe a number of similarities. Oral literature disseminates a range of themes that are shared by narratives in most parts of the continent. In all the European regions, this tradition of heroic narration came into contact with Christianity, which led to modifications. Similar processes of adaptation and transformation can be traced everywhere in this field of early European vernacular narrative. But with the increasing specialization of academic fields over the last half century, inter-disciplinary dialogue has become increasingly difficult. The volume is a contribution to renew the inter-disciplinary dialogue about common themes, topics and motifs in Nordic, Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Germanic literature, and about the different methodologies to explore them.
Download or read book The Northmen in America The Spaniards in America The Portuguese in America The Dutch in America The French in America written by Henry Howard Brownell and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early European History written by Hutton Webster and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1917 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first twelve chapters of the present work are based upon the author's Ancient history, published four years ago." "Suggestions for further study": pages xxiv-xxxv.
Download or read book A Concordance to the Poems of Robert Browning written by and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Northmen a Poem in Four Cantos written by Dilnot SLADDEN and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Vikings on Film written by Kevin J. Harty and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Factual and fanciful tales of the Nordic warriors known as Vikings have proven irresistible to filmmakers for nearly a century. Diverse, prominent actors from Kirk Douglas, Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier to Tim Robbins and John Cleese, and noted directors, including Richard Fleischer, Clive Donner and Terry Jones, have all lent their talents to Viking-related films. These fourteen essays on films dealing with the Viking era discuss American, British and European productions. Analyzed in detail are such films as The Vikings (1958), The Long Ships (1964), Alfred the Great (1969), Erik the Viking (1989) and Outlander (2008), as well as two comic-strip adaptations, the 1954 and 1989 films of Prince Valiant and the animated Asterix and the Vikings (2006). A comprehensive filmography is also included.
Download or read book Fury of the Northmen written by Frank Kimovec and published by Trafford on Demand Pub. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical/adventure novel steeped in intrigue, battles, and blood feuds. If you were ever tired of the Hollywood version of history with its silly romances and pure-hearted heroes, then this intense, fast-paced novel is for you. Through the eyes of a young viking warrior on his first raid of the Irish coast, you will experience life as it really was: dark, brutal, and short. The novel is set in the late 8th century and features the inner workings of a Scandinavian settlement bent on looting lands to the west. Not only will you visualize the necessary preparations taken, but you will come to know the intense rivalries within their ranks which caused the vikings to kill more of each other than anyone else. Once enjoined in battle, viking savagery is legendary: close quarter fighting, unmerciful dealings with captives, and an irreverence toward men of the cloth portray a time when kill or be killed, smash and grab, and woe to the vanquished were the only laws followed.
Download or read book Shooting Up written by Łukasz Kamieński and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pharmacologically enhanced militaries -- Alcohol -- From pre-modern times to the end of the Second World War -- Pre-modern times: opium, hashish, mushrooms and coca -- Napoleon in Egypt and the adventures of Europeans with hashish -- The Opium Wars -- The American Civil War, opium, morphine and the "soldiers' disease"--The colonial wars and the terrifying "barbarians"--coca to cocaine: the First World War -- The Second World War -- The Cold War -- From the Korean War to the war over mind control -- In search of wonderful new techniques and weapons -- Vietnam: the first true pharmacological war -- The Red Army in Afghanistan and the problem of drug addiction -- Towards the present -- Contemporary irregular armies empowered by drugs -- Intoxicated child soldiers -- Drugs in the contemporary American Armed Forces -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: war as a drug
Download or read book History of France written by Jules Michelet and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shooting Up written by Kamieński and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From hallucinogenic mushrooms and LSD, to coca and cocaine; from Homeric warriors and the Assassins to the first Gulf War and today’s global insurgents — drugs have sustained warriors in the field and have been used as weapons of warfare, either as non-lethal psychochemical weapons or as a means of subversion. Łukasz Kamieński explores why and how drugs have been issued to soldiers to increase their battlefield performance, boost their courage and alleviate stress and fear — as well as for medical purposes. He also delves into the history of psychoactive substances that combatants ‘self-prescribe’, a practice which dates as far back as the Vikings. Shooting Up is a comprehensive and original history of the relationship between fighting men and intoxicants, from Antiquity till the present day, and looks at how drugs will determine the wars of the future in unforeseen and remarkable ways.
Download or read book The Normans in Europe written by Arthur Henry Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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