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"Monarchs and Hydrarchs approaches the available interdisciplinary data on a cumulative and conceptual level, allowing overall spatiotemporal patterns of Viking activity to be detected and defined. Despite decades of scholarly scrutiny, the politico-economic exploits of Vikings in and around the Frankish realm (c. 750-940 CE) remain - to a considerable extent - obscured by the constraints of a fragmentary and biased corpus of (near-)contemporary evidence, conveying the impression 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. It will appeal to researchers wishing to understand Viking interactions with the Franks as well as more generally to students and academics in Early Medieval and Viking Studies"--

Vikings --- Northmen --- History. --- France --- History

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The administration of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily has long been held up to be the most advanced government in twelfth-century Europe. However, until now there has been considerable confusion about how this bureaucracy actually functioned, whether it developed in the 12th century or retained the form given it by Roger II; whether it had regional variations, what the identity of different departments of government was, who did what within the structures of government, and what the relationship between the Greek, Arabic and Latin elements within the administration was. This work goes a long way to sorting out these problems. The author's meticulous work with chronicles and charters enable him to clear up many problems and mysteries in the administration of finance and justice and to identify such uncertainties as remain. This fundamental work forms a basic reference point for future studies of Norman Sicily and of government in the high Middle Ages.

Normans --- Politics and government --- Northmen --- Normans - Italy - Sicily.

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An aura of romance has clung about the Varangians for over six centuries. This book examines how the Norsemen came to be drawn into the Imperial service until the greatest of all the Emperors of the East, Basil II, formed them into the regiment of guards which was to give unique service to the Empire. It surveys the history of the regiment down to the collapse of High Byzantium in 1204 and traces the remnant of the Varangians to the very last day of the Empire in May 1453.

Varangians --- -Northmen --- Vikings, East --- History --- Byzantine Empire --- -History, Military --- -Varangians --- Northmen --- History, Military --- History. --- Arts and Humanities --- Varangians - Byzantine Empire - History --- Byzantine Empire - History, Military - 527-1081

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Vikings. --- Northmen. --- Civilization, Viking. --- Normands --- Civilisation viking --- Northmen --- Civilization, Viking --- History of Europe --- Archeology --- anno 500-1499 --- Archaeology, Medieval --- Vikings --- Norsemen --- Ethnology --- Viking civilization --- Antiquities, Medieval --- Medieval antiquities --- Medieval archaeology --- Civilization --- Archaeology, Medieval. --- Archéologie médiévale

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History of civilization --- Viking --- Northmen --- Art, Medieval --- Art, Viking --- Vikings --- Exhibitions --- 948 --- 936.8 --- Geschiedenis van Scandinavië --- Geschiedenis van de Scandinaviërs, de Noormannen en de Vikings --- Vikings. --- 936.8 Geschiedenis van de Scandinaviërs, de Noormannen en de Vikings --- 948 Geschiedenis van Scandinavië --- Northmen. --- 948 History of Scandinavia --- History of Scandinavia --- Northmen - Exhibitions --- Art, Medieval - Exhibitions --- Art, Viking - Exhibitions --- Vikings - Exhibitions