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Chapter Mari connessi
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Year: 2019 Publisher: Florence : Firenze University Press,

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Following Fernand Braudel's Méditerranée, historians interpreted the Mediterranean, Baltic, Atlantic, Indian Ocean or Pacific as closed maritime systems, consisting of multiple micro-environments. This essay seeks to overcome these limited perspectives and to examine, how the various seas and oceans were connected by the Vikings, the Cairo Genizah merchants and the Italian trading companies of the Middle Ages. The second part of my article "Connected Seas" examines the perception and memory of the seas as an element of maritime connectivity. It introduces the concept of realm of memory (lieu de mémoire) into maritime history and tests it in four case studies on the Sound, the Straits of Gibraltar, the Dardanelles and the Straits of Malacca.

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Watlington Hoard : Coinage, Kings and the Viking Great Army in Oxfordshire, AD875-880
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ISBN: 1789698308 1789698294 Year: 2022 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd,

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The Watlington Hoard was discovered in southern Oxfordshire in 2015 by a metal-detectorist, and acquired by the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford in 2017. A nationally-important find of coinage and metalwork, and the first major Viking-Age hoard from the county, it dates from the late 870s, a fundamental and tumultuous period in Britain's history. The contents of the hoard include a highly significant collection of over 200 silver pennies, mostly of Alfred the Great, king of Wessex, and Ceolwulf II, king of Mercia, transforming our understanding of the coinage in this period, and 23 silver and gold pieces of contemporary metalwork much of which was derived from Scandinavia.0Presenting the complete publication of the objects and coins in the Watlington Hoard - including an important re-assessment of the coinage of the late 870s - the authors discuss its wider implications for our understanding of hoarding in late 9th-century southern Britain, interactions between the kingdoms of Wessex and Mercia, and the movements of the Viking Great Army after the Battle of Edington in 878. The book also relates another side to the hoard's story, beginning with its discovery and excavation, charting its path through the conservation work and acquisition by the Ashmolean Museum to the public outreach projects which ran alongside the scholarly research into the hoard.


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Rulership in 1st to 14th century Scandinavia : royal graves and sites at Avaldsnes and beyond
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ISBN: 3110421100 3110421151 3110425793 Year: 2020 Publisher: De Gruyter

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This book discusses the 3rd-11th century developments that led to the formation of the three Scandinavian kingdoms in the Viking Age. Wide-ranging studies of communication routes, regional identities, judicial territories, and royal sites and graves trace a complex trajectory of rulership in these pagan Germanic societies. In the final section, new light is shed on the pinnacle and demise of the Norwegian kingdom in the 13th-14th centuries. This book seeks to revitalise the somewhat stagnant scholarly debate on Germanic rulership in the first millennium AD. A series of comprehensive chapters combines literary evidence on Scandinavia's polities, kings, and other rulers with archaeological, documentary, toponymical, and linguistic evidence. The picture that emerges is one of surprisingly stable rulership institutions, sites, and myths, while control of them was contested between individuals, dynasties, and polities. While in the early centuries, Scandinavia was integrated in Germanic Europe, profound societal and cultural changes in 6th-century Scandinavia and the Christianisation of Continental and English kingdoms set northern kingship on a different path. The pagan heroic warrior ethos, essential to kingship, was developed and refined; only to recur overseas embodied in 9th-10th-century Vikings. Three chapters on a hitherto unknown masonry royal manor at Avaldsnes in western Norway, excavated 2017, concludes this volume with discussions of the late-medieval peak of Norwegian kingship and it's eventual downfall in the late 14th century. This book's discussions and results are relevant to all scholars and students of 1st-millenium Germanic kingship, polities, and societies.


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Krig och fred i vendel- och vikingatida traditioner
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ISBN: 9176350290 9176350282 9176350312 9780177350294 9789176350287 9789176350294 Year: 2016 Publisher: Stockholm : Stockholm University Press,

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What were the ideas about conflicts and conflict resolutions in the Nordic countries during the Vendel Period and the Viking Age? What role did i.e. gender and power hierarchies play in the conflicts? All of the contributing texts are, in one way or another, related to the theme 'war and peace'. They present new interpretations of some of the Old Scandinavian texts as well as of archaeological material: the runic inscription on the Eggja stone (Andreas Nordberg), texts about the fight between the god Thor and the giant Hrungnir (Tommy Kuusela), about the valkyries (Britt-Mari NAsstrOm), about a phalos cult (Maths Bertell), about fylgjur, a type of beings regarded as related to the fate of a person (Eldar Heide), about enclosed areas for fights and battles (Torsten Blomkvist), about the defilement of sacred areas and places as a power strategy (Olof Sundqvist), about ritualisations of peace negotiations (Stefan Olsson), and about RagnarOk, the end and renewing of the world (Anders HultgArd). Vilka idEer om konflikter och konfliktlOsningar hade man i Norden under vendel- och vikingatid (frAn ca 550 till ca 1100)? Hur uppfattades gudar som Oden och Tor och andra vAsen som valkyrior och fylgjor kunna pAverka krig och fred? Hur reglerades anvAndningen av vAld och hur utformades fredsprocesser? Vilken roll spelade kOn och makthierarkier i konflikterna? Hur fOrhAller sig de fOrkristna skandinaviska fOrestAllningarna om den sista striden till motsvarande kristna och forniranska traditioner? Det Ar nAgra av de frAgor som bidragen i den hAr boken diskuterar. UndersOkningarna baseras i huvudsak pA texter frAn den aktuella perioden och frAn tidig medeltid, men ocksA pA arkeologiskt material. De ger intressanta exempel pA hur kAllorna till vendel- och vikingatida traditioner kan analyseras om man tar utgAngspunkt i frAgor om krig och fred.


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Der Hochverrat des Amtmanns Povel Juel : Ein mikrohistorischer Streifzug durch Europas Norden der Frühen Neuzeit
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ISBN: 3839451841 3837651843 Year: 2020 Publisher: Bielefeld transcript Verlag

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Kopenhagen 1723. Der norwegische Amtmann Povel Juel soll Peter dem Großen angetragen haben, eine russische Kolonie auf Grönland zu errichten. Auf dem Weg dorthin wollte er Island, die Färöer und Norwegen erobern - mithin Erblande des dänischen Königs. Ein verwegener Hochverrat, der das Machtgefüge im Norden Europas durcheinandergewirbelt hätte, wäre der Plan nicht ans Licht gekommen. So aber ließ der König seinen Amtmann grausam hinrichten. Martin Schaad unterzieht die Prozessakten einer Revision und versucht damit Povel Juel zu rehabilitieren. Ein mikrohistorischer Streifzug durch die Geschichte des Strafrechts, der Wikinger, der Navigation, der Kartographie, des Klimas und des bargeldlosen Zahlungsverkehrs. »Die Forschungsleistung verdient hohe Anerkennung, die Interpretation nötigt Respekt ab, ohne dass man sie in der Essenz teilen muss.« Otto Ulbricht, H-Soz-u-Kult, 20.10.2020

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