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Lieferstatus:	Vorankündigung
Veröffentlichung:	ANGEKÜNDIGT (September 2024)
Genre:	Geschichte / Politik / Kultur
	History / Material Culture
ISBN:	9781788166744
EAN-Code:	9781788166744
Verlag:	Profile Books
Einband:	Gebunden
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 234 mm / B 153 mm / D
Seiten:	368
Illustration:	8pp colour plates
Bewertung:	Keine Bewertung vor Veröffentlichung möglich.

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'Brilliantly written ... evokes the wonder of an entire civilisation.' Tom Holland, author of Pax and co-host of The Rest is History 'Splendid - an intimate portrait of the Viking Age. Highly recommended.' Neil Price, author of The Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings 'Takes us beyond the familiar into a real, visceral, far more satisfying Viking world.' Dan Snow Imagine a Viking, and a certain image springs to mind: a nameless, faceless warrior, leaping ashore from a longboat, and ready to terrorise the hapless local population of a northern European country. Yet while such characters define the Viking Age today, they were in the minority. This is the history of all the other people - children, enslaved people, seers, artisans, travellers, writers - who inhabited the medieval Nordic world. Encompassing not just Norway, Denmark and Sweden, but also Iceland, Greenland, parts of the British Isles, Continental Europe and Russia, this is a history of a Viking Age filled with real people of different ages, genders and ethnicities, as told through the traces that they left behind, from hairstyles to place names, love-notes to gravestones. For the first time, you can immerse yourself in the day-to-day lives of extraordinary culture which spanned centuries and spread from the edge of the North American continent to the Russian steppes, from the Arctic wastelands to the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic Caliphate.