Embers of the hands : hidden histories of the Viking Age
Barraclough, Eleanor Rosamund2024
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A new and original history of the Viking Age, told through the objects that defined the lives of its people - from powerful leaders to naughty teenagers. 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.
Main title:
Embers of the hands : hidden histories of the Viking Age / Eleanor Barraclough.
Author:
Barraclough, Eleanor Rosamund, author
Imprint:
London : Profile Books Ltd, 2024.
Collation:
373 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-348) and index.
ISBN:
9781788166744 (hardback)
Dewey class:
948.022
Language:
English
BRN:
794918