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Neil Price - Children of Ash and Elm, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

Children of Ash and Elm

A History of the Vikings

Av Neil Price

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A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'As brilliant a history of the Vikings as one could possibly hope to read' Tom HollandThe 'Viking Age' is traditionally held to begin in June 793 when Scandinavian raiders attacked the monastery of Lindisfarne in Northumbria, and to end in September 1066, when King Harald Hardrada of Norway died leading the charge against the English line at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. This book, the most wide-ranging and comprehensive assessment of the current state of our knowledge, takes a refreshingly different view. It shows that the Viking expansion began generations before the Lindisfarne raid, and traces Scandinavian history back centuries further to see how these people came to be who they were.The narrative ranges across the whole of the Viking diaspora, from Vinland on the eastern American seaboard to Constantinople and Uzbekistan, with contacts as far away as China. Based on the latest archaeology, it explores the complex origins of the Viking phenomenon and traces the seismic shifts in Scandinavian society that resulted from an economy geared to maritime war. Some of its most striking discoveries include the central role of slavery in Viking life and trade, and the previously unsuspected pirate communities and family migrations that were part of the Viking 'armies' - not least in England.Especially, Neil Price takes us inside the Norse mind and spirit-world, and across their borders of identity and gender, to reveal startlingly different Vikings to the barbarian marauders of stereotype. He cuts through centuries of received wisdom to try to see the Vikings as they saw themselves - descendants of the first human couple, the Children of Ash and Elm. Healso reminds us of the simultaneous familiarity and strangeness of the past, of how much we cannot know, alongside the discoveries that change the landscape of our understanding. This is an eye-opening and surprisingly moving book.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2022-04-07
  • Mått: 129 x 198 x 35 mm
  • Vikt: 450 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 624
  • Förlag: Penguin Books Ltd
  • ISBN: 9780141984445
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Neil Price holds the Chair of Archaeology at Uppsala University, Sweden, where he has also been appointed Distinguished Professor by the Swedish Research Council. A leading expert on the Viking Age, his fieldwork, teaching and research have taken him to more than forty countries. Neil is a Fellow of learned academies in Britain and Scandinavia, including Sweden's oldest, the Royal Society of Sciences; in 2017 it awarded him the Thuréus Prize for his lifetime achievements in Viking studies. His publications have appeared in sixteen languages, and he is a frequent consultant and contributor to television and film.

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Everybody thinks they know the Vikings, but Neil Price's magical book casts them in an entirely new light ... Scholarly, colourful and often remarkably funny, this is history at its very best, a richly decorated window on to a very strange world.

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8 recensioner, genomsnitt 4.4/5

  1. 2/5 Peter

    för många antaganden och spekulationer filtrerade genom våra nu rådande normer. Price motsäger sig själv i sin iver att att inte snubbla utanför vad som är kulturellt acceptabelt.

  2. 5/5 Laura C

    I have long sought a volume that places the history of the Vikings within a greater societal context and Price does this fabulously. I have given this book as a Christmas present to several in my family and my friends.

  3. 5/5 Markus F

    Med Children of Ash and Elm har Neil Price satt ribban högre än någon tidigare nått vad gäller historik över den tidsperiod som kallas vikingatiden. Resultatet är den bästa redogörelsen sedan Johannes Bröndsted's Vikingarne från 1960, alltså mer än 60 år sedan. Neil Price levererar verkligen och tar sats redan i vendeltiden för att redogöra hur det vikingatida samhället formades och sätter även in vikingatiden i en historisk kontinuitet som visar på hur 6-700-talet och 1100-talet hänger ihop med vikingarnas värld. Price tar även upp den ekonomiska grunden till hur nordbornas sjöröveri materiellt sett kunde genomföras, och påpekar också på betydelsen av ofri arbetskraft i de nordiska samhällena. Inget vikingaskepp kunde ha seglat utan många årsarbeten av fåraherdar, väverskor, skogshuggare, smeder, timmermän och repslagare. Boken innehåller även en mycket trolig och spännande bild av vikingarnas andliga värld, som annars oftast brukar beskrivas som hjältesagor eller som bilder av fallna krigare vilka dricker mjöd i Odens hall. Den här boken bör bli det nya standardverket om Vikingatiden inom populärvetenskapen. Jag har inte läst något så bra tidigare.

  4. 5/5 Ulrika R
  5. 4/5 Mia S

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