Viking Law And Order

Author : Sanmark Alexandra Sanmark
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781474402309

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Viking Law and Order by Sanmark Alexandra Sanmark Pdf

Until very recently Viking and Norse assembly sites were essentially unknown, apart from a few select sites, such as Thingvellir in Iceland. The Vikings are well-known for their violence and pillage, but they also had a well-organised system for political decision-making, legal cases and conflict resolution. Using archaeological evidence, written sources and place-names, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of their legal system and assembly sites, showing that this formed an integral part of Norse culture and identity, to the extent that the assembly institution was brought to all Norse settlements.Sites are analysed through surveys and case studies across Scandinavia, Scotland and the North Atlantic region. The author moves the view of assembly sites away from a functional one to an understanding of the symbolic meaning of these highly ritualised sites, and shows how they were constructed to signify power through monuments and natural features. This original and stimulating study is set not only in the context of the Viking and Norse periods, but also in the wider continental histories of place, assembly and the rhetoric of power.

Author : Alexandra Sanmark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Civilization, Viking
ISBN : 1474435262

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Viking Law and Order by Alexandra Sanmark Pdf

Using archaeological evidence, written sources and place-names, this text provides a comprehensive analysis of the Viking legal system and assembly sites, showing that this formed an integral part of Norse culture and identity, to the extent that the assembly institution was brought to all Norse settlements.

Author : Raymond Ian Page
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802071651

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Chronicles of the Vikings by Raymond Ian Page Pdf

Chronicles of the Vikings defines the social values of the Viking Age, their heroic view of life which sometimes contrasts with their more prosaic way of looking at things.

Author : Jon Vidar Sigurdsson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501760488

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Scandinavia in the Age of Vikings by Jon Vidar Sigurdsson Pdf

In Scandinavia in the Age of Vikings, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson returns to the Viking homeland, Scandinavia, highlighting such key aspects of Viking life as power and politics, social and kinship networks, gifts and feasting, religious beliefs, women's roles, social classes, and the Viking economy, which included farming, iron mining and metalworking, and trade. Drawing of the latest archeological research and on literary sources, namely the sagas, Sigurðsson depicts a complex and surprisingly peaceful society that belies the popular image of Norsemen as bloodthirsty barbarians. Instead, Vikings often acted out power struggles symbolically, with local chieftains competing with each other through displays of wealth in the form of great feasts and gifts, rather than arms. At home, conspicuous consumption was a Viking leader's most important virtue; the brutality associated with them was largely wreaked abroad. Sigurðsson's engaging history of the Vikings at home begins by highlighting political developments in the region, detailing how Danish kings assumed ascendency over the region and the ways in which Viking friendship reinforced regional peace. Scandinavia in the Age of Vikings then discusses the importance of religion, first pagan and (beginning around 1000 A.D.) Christianity; the central role that women played in politics and war; and how the enormous wealth brought back to Scandinavia affected the social fabric—shedding new light on Viking society.

Author : Paul Hardwick,Kate Lister
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476673745

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Vikings and the Vikings by Paul Hardwick,Kate Lister Pdf

This essay collection is a wide-ranging exploration of Vikings, the television series that has successfully summoned the historical world of the Norse people for modern audiences to enjoy. From a range of critical viewpoints, these all fresh essays explore the ways in which past and present representations of the Vikings converge in the show's richly textured dramatization of the rise and fall of Ragnar Loobrok--and the exploits of his heirs--creating what many viewers label a "true" representation of the age. From the show's sources in both saga literature and Victorian revival, to its engagement with contemporary concerns regarding gender, race and identity, via setting, sex, society and more, this first book-length study of the History Channel series appeals to fans of the show, Viking enthusiasts, and anyone with an interest in medievalist representation in the 21st century.

Author : Gro Steinsland
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004205062

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Ideology and Power in the Viking and Middle Ages by Gro Steinsland Pdf

This book analyses the Nordic pre-Christian ideology of rulership, and its confrontation with, survival into and adaptation to the European Christian ideals during the transition from the Viking to the Middle Ages from the ninth to the thirteenth century.

Author : Tom Shippey
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780239507

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Laughing Shall I Die by Tom Shippey Pdf

Laughing Shall I Die explores the Viking fascination with scenes of heroic death. The literature of the Vikings is dominated by famous last stands, famous last words, death songs, and defiant gestures, all presented with grim humor. Much of this mindset is markedly alien to modern sentiment, and academics have accordingly shunned it. And yet, it is this same worldview that has always powered the popular public image of the Vikings—with their berserkers, valkyries, and cults of Valhalla and Ragnarok—and has also been surprisingly corroborated by archaeological discoveries such as the Ridgeway massacre site in Dorset. Was it this mindset that powered the sudden eruption of the Vikings onto the European scene? Was it a belief in heroic death that made them so lastingly successful against so many bellicose opponents? Weighing the evidence of sagas and poems against the accounts of the Vikings’ victims, Tom Shippey considers these questions as he plumbs the complexities of Viking psychology. Along the way, he recounts many of the great bravura scenes of Old Norse literature, including the Fall of the House of the Skjoldungs, the clash between the two great longships Ironbeard and Long Serpent, and the death of Thormod the skald. One of the most exciting books on Vikings for a generation, Laughing Shall I Die presents Vikings for what they were: not peaceful explorers and traders, but warriors, marauders, and storytellers.

Author : Marianne Hem Eriksen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108497220

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Architecture, Society, and Ritual in Viking Age Scandinavia by Marianne Hem Eriksen Pdf

This book explores households, social organization, and rituals in Viking Age Scandinavia through a study of dwellings and their doorways.

Author : Zanette T. Glørstad,Kjetil Loftsgarden
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317001904

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Viking-Age Transformations by Zanette T. Glørstad,Kjetil Loftsgarden Pdf

The Viking Age was a period of profound change in Scandinavia. As kingdoms were established, Christianity became the encompassing ideological and cosmological framework and towns were formed. This book examines a central backdrop to these changes: the economic transformation of West Scandinavia. With a focus on the development of intensive and organized use of woodlands and alpine regions and domestic raw materials, together with the increasing standardization of products intended for long-distance trade, the volume sheds light on the emergence of a strong interconnectedness between remote rural areas and central markets. Viking-Age Transformations explores the connection between legal and economic practice, as the rural economy and monetary system developed in conjunction with nascent state power and the legal system. Thematically, the book is organized into sections addressing the nature and extent of trade in both marginal and centralized areas; production and the social, legal and economic aspects of exploiting natural resources and distributing products; and the various markets and sites of trade and consumption. A theoretically informed and empirically grounded collection that reveals the manner in which relationships of production and consumption transformed Scandinavian society with their influence on the legal and fiscal division of the landscape, this volume will appeal to scholars of archaeology, the history of trade and Viking studies.

Author : Judith Jesch
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780851153605

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Women in the Viking Age by Judith Jesch Pdf

Through runic inscriptions and behind the veil of myth, Jesch discovers the true story of viking women.

Author : James Graham-Campbell,Richard Hall,Judith Jesch,David N Parsons
Publisher :
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785704550

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Vikings and the Danelaw by James Graham-Campbell,Richard Hall,Judith Jesch,David N Parsons Pdf

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.

Author : William Ian Miller
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226526829

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Bloodtaking and Peacemaking by William Ian Miller Pdf

Dubbed by the New York Times as "one of the most sought-after legal academics in the county," William Ian Miller presents the arcane worlds of the Old Norse studies in a way sure to attract the interest of a wide range of readers. Bloodtaking and Peacemaking delves beneath the chaos and brutality of the Norse world to discover a complex interplay of ordering and disordering impulses. Miller's unique and engaging readings of ancient Iceland's sagas and extensive legal code reconstruct and illuminate the society that produced them. People in the saga world negotiated a maze of violent possibility, with strategies that frequently put life and limb in the balance. But there was a paradox in striking the balance—one could not get even without going one better. Miller shows how blood vengeance, law, and peacemaking were inextricably bound together in the feuding process. This book offers fascinating insights into the politics of a stateless society, its methods of social control, and the role that a uniquely sophisticated and self-conscious law played in the construction of Icelandic society. "Illuminating."—Rory McTurk, Times Literary Supplement "An impressive achievement in ethnohistory; it is an amalgam of historical research with legal and anthropological interpretation. What is more, and rarer, is that it is a pleasure to read due to the inclusion of narrative case material from the sagas themselves."—Dan Bauer, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

Author : W. B. Bartlett
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445645926

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King Cnut and the Viking Conquest of England 1016 by W. B. Bartlett Pdf

The first ever full biography of England's Viking king and how he conquered England.

Author : Jeffrey Love,Inger Larsson,Djärv Ulrika
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-10
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1783748168

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A Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law by Jeffrey Love,Inger Larsson,Djärv Ulrika Pdf

Author : Jesse L Byock
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141937656

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Viking Age Iceland by Jesse L Byock Pdf

Medieval Iceland was unique amongst Western Europe, with no foreign policy, no defence forces, no king, no lords, no peasants and few battles. It should have been a utopia yet its literature is dominated by brutality and killing. The reasons for this, argues Jesse Byock, lie in the underlying structures and cultural codes of the islands' social order. 'Viking Age Iceland' is an engaging, multi-disciplinary work bringing together findings in anthropology and ethnography interwoven with historical fact and masterful insights into the popular Icelandic sagas, this is a brilliant reconstruction of the inner workings of a unique and intriguing society.