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Empire of Cnut the Great
Conquest and the Consolidation of Power in Northern Europe in the Early Eleventh Century
Inbunden, 2008
3170 kr
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The reign of King Cnut the Great (1016–1035) marks a pivotal point in the history of both England and Scandinavia, yet his conquests and his consolidation of power remain under-appreciated and rarely studied. Almost all existing scholarship has been geographically centred on either England or …
Emanuel Swedenborg, Secret Agent on Earth and in Heaven
Jacobites, Jews and Freemasons in Early Modern Sweden
Inbunden, 2011
4912 kr
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Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) won fame and infamy as a natural scientist and visionary theosopher, but he was also a master intelligencer, who served as a secret agent for the French king, Louis XV, and the pro-French, pro-Jacobite party of "Hats" in Sweden. This study draws upon unpublished …
Anglo-Swedish Commercial Connections and Diplomatic Relations in the Seventeenth Century
Inbunden, 2023
2064 kr
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This is the first study to analyse the relationship between England and Sweden across the entire seventeenth century. It emphasises the importance of commerce and diplomacy working in tandem.The book contains five chapters arranged chronologically, all based on original and innovative archival …
Tools, Weapons and Ornaments
Germanic Material Culture in Pre-Carolingian Central Europe, 400-750
Inbunden, 2001
3210 kr
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This illustrated book continues themes in Central European cultural history treated elsewhere with the intention of presenting an interdisciplinary study of early medieval socio-cultural developments.A continuation of the preceding books, this volume examines the archeological evidence of the …
Reputation and Representation in Fifteenth-Century Europe
Av Douglas Biggs, Sharon Michalove m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
3141 kr
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This volume deals with political, military, social, architectural, and literary aspects of fifteenth-century England. The essays contained in the volume range across the century from some of the leading scholars currently working in the period.With contributions by Mark Arvanigian, Kelly DeVries, …
Queen Margrete I (1353-1412) and the Founding of the Nordic Union
Inbunden, 2004
2894 kr
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This book presents the fascinating story of Queen Margrete I and her rise to power in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Her political ambitions culminated in the founding of the Nordic Union in 1397, which had vital impact on the history of Scandinavia for the next centuries. The book analyses the most …
Frederik II and the Protestant Cause
Denmark's Role in the Wars of Religion, 1559-1596
Inbunden, 2004
3210 kr
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This book considers the role played by Denmark’s King Frederik II (1559-88) in the international diplomacy of the 'age of religious wars'. As Europe’s leading Lutheran sovereign, Frederik commanded great influence; his conviction that an international Catholic 'conspiracy' threatened to destroy …
Russia's Foreign Trade and Economic Expansion in the Seventeenth Century
Windows on the World
Av Kotilaine
Inbunden, 2004
4312 kr
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This study is the first comprehensive assessment of Russia's commercial relations with the outside world in the seventeenth century and of the relationship between trade and economic growth. Based on exhaustive research in some thirty archival repositories, it represents the first systematic …
High Germans in the Low Countries
German Merchants and Commerce in Golden Age Antwerp
Inbunden, 2004
2405 kr
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This volume looks at the South German merchant community during Antwerp's Golden Age by examining German involvement in the social life of the city as well as by tracing merchants' commercial activities. The first section of the book considers the institutions of trade and the role Germans played …
Discovery of the Baltic
The Reception of a Catholic World-System in the European North (AD 1075-1225)
Inbunden, 2004
2270 kr
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Nils Blomkvist discusses how the Baltic Rim was initially Europeanized between 1075 and 1225 AD. He compares the indigenous civilisations to the prevailing western European one. After the expansive Viking period, European penetration became a process of discovery. The importance of the Catholic …
Network North
Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746
Inbunden, 2022
3548 kr
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This volume deals with the development, implementation and maintenance of Scottish networks in Northern Europe from c.1600-1746. The book contains nine chapters divided into three parts of original and innovative archival reseach. After an introduction providing a theoretical overview of the …
Coinage and History in the North Sea World, c. AD 500-1250
Essays in Honour of Marion Archibald
Av Barrie Cook, Gareth Williams
Inbunden, 2005
3962 kr
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This is a themed volume of 28 papers, written in honour of Marion Archibald. It considers the role of coinage in northern Europe from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the early thirteenth century. Although the focus of the volume is the coinage itself, the majority of the papers consider …
Commerce and Print in the Early Reformation
Av John Fudge
Inbunden, 2007
2378 kr
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Communications and the spread of nonconformist views were key to the spiritual upheaval that gripped many parts of northern Europe in the 1520s. Emphasising economic and cultural hegemony, this book explores the transmission of innovation through networks of trade. Interrelated themes include …
West over Sea
Studies in Scandinavian Sea-Borne Expansion and Settlement Before 1300
Av Gareth Williams, Beverley Ballin Smith m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
3600 kr
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This volume is a collection of 30 papers on the broad subject of the Scandinavian expansion westwards to Britain, Ireland and the North Atlantic, with a particular emphasis on settlement. The volume has been prepared in tribute to the work of Barbara E. Crawford on this subject, and to celebrate …
Guests in the House
Cultural Transmission between Slavs and Scandinavians 900 to 1300 AD
Av Mats Roslund
Inbunden, 2007
3425 kr
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Mats Roslund discusses the presence of Slavic visitors in the area corresponding to modern Sweden during the period 900-1300 AD. Ethnic and cultural identity are seen through the reproduction of a Slav style in every-day pottery. The interpretation is preceded by an introduction to Slav archaeology …
Danish Resources c. 1000-1550
Growth and Recession
Inbunden, 2007
3210 kr
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This pioneering work presents the first comprehensive economic history of medieval Denmark. It puts data produced by more than a century of historical research into a new context and includes a multitude of information based on primary research. The book abounds in knowledge of natural and human …
Unpredictability and Presence
Norwegian Kingship in the High Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2008
2915 kr
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This book – inspired by historians like Fredric Cheyette, Stephen White and William Miller – applies a legal anthropological framework to Norwegian history. At the same time, it focuses on what happens when pre-state conflict patterns encounters a more stable royal power in the high middle ages. …
Beyond the Catch
Fisheries of the North Atlantic, the North Sea and the Baltic, 900-1850
Av Louis Sicking, Darlene Abreu-Ferreira
Inbunden, 2008
3425 kr
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Current concerns about the survival of marine life and the fishing industry have contributed to a rising interest in their past development. While much of the scholarship is focused on the recent past, this collection of essays presents new interpretations in the pre-industrial history of the …
Youth and Age in the Medieval North
Inbunden, 2008
2875 kr
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Following from themes explored during the 2005 International Medieval Congress on ‘Youth and Age’, this interdisciplinary volume focuses upon social, cultural and biological aspects of being young and old in the medieval north. The contributors progress definitions of young and old in the north, …
Between Betrothal and Bedding
Marriage Formation in Sweden 1200-1600
Av Mia Korpiola
Inbunden, 2009
3882 kr
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Swedish medieval marriage formation was a process, written down in the secular laws. However, it started to evolve because of the interaction with the medieval Catholic marriage doctrine, which focused on mutual words of consent. Although first the canon law of marriage, and then Lutheran marriage …
Sexuality, Law and Legal Practice and the Reformation in Norway
Av Anne Riisøy
Inbunden, 2009
2327 kr
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Based on legislation and legal practice from the period c. 1250-1600 the book takes issue with the most important viewpoints in earlier research by early modernists: that the Reformation represented a watershed in a development characterized by greater criminalisation of sexual acts, increase in …
Slaves and Warriors in Medieval Britain and Ireland, 800 -1200
Av David Wyatt
Inbunden, 2009
3882 kr
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Modern sensibilities have clouded historical views of slavery, perhaps more so than any other medieval social institution. Anachronistic economic rationales and notions about the progression of European civilisation have immeasurably distorted our view of slavery in the medieval context. As a …
Swedish Naval Administration, 1521-1721
Resource Flows and Organisational Capabilities
Av Jan Glete
Inbunden, 2009
4969 kr
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This book is a long-term study of organisational capabilities as parts of early modern state formation. Sweden was a largely non-maritime society which nevertheless maintained a large navy as part of the armed forces which created a Baltic empire. Many of the resources came from the peasant society …
British and Irish Emigrants and Exiles in Europe, 1603-1688
Inbunden, 2010
3170 kr
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This book comprises the first full-length comparison of Scottish, Irish, English and Welsh migration within Europe in the early modern period. Divided into four sections - 'Immigrants and Civilian Life', 'Diplomats and Travellers', 'Protestants and Patrons' and 'Catholics at Home and Abroad' - it …
Interfaces between Language and Culture in Medieval England
A Festschrift for Matti Kilpiö
Inbunden, 2010
3170 kr
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The twelve articles in this volume promote the growing contacts between historical linguistics and medieval cultural studies. They fall into two groups. One examines the interrelation in Anglo-Saxon England between Latin and vernacular language and culture, investigating language-contact between …
High-Ranking Widows in Medieval Iceland and Yorkshire
Property, Power, Marriage and Identity in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Inbunden, 2010
3378 kr
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This book provides an evocative insight into the property, power, remarriage, and identity of high-ranking widows in two fundamentally different societies, Iceland and Yorkshire. The legal position of widows in each region is examined in light of evidence from charters, royal records and sagas to …
Clerics and Clansmen
The Diocese of Argyll between the Twelfth and Sixteenth Centuries
Inbunden, 2013
3078 kr
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The Highlander has never enjoyed a good press, and has been usually characterised as peripheral and barbaric in comparison to his Lowland neighbour, more inclined to fighting than serving God. In Clerics and Clansmen Iain MacDonald examines how the medieval Church in Gaelic Scotland, often regarded …
Forgotten Crusaders
Poland and the Crusader Movement in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Inbunden, 2012
4113 kr
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This book investigates into the Polish participation in the Crusades to the Holy Land, as well as the organisation of the campaign of preaching of the Cross and the collection of resources for the support of the Crusades by the Church. By broadening the scope of enquiry to consider the application …
Constructing a Cult
The Life and Veneration of Guðmundr Arason (1161-1237) in the Icelandic Written Sources
Inbunden, 2011
3103 kr
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The figure of Guðmundr Arason (1161-1237) and especially his role in the history of medieval Iceland has provoked many strong opinions for decades. This book uses a variety of extant written sources to reexamine those views. It discusses a discrepancy between the popularity of the saint as …
Ideology and Power in the Viking and Middle Ages
Scandinavia, Iceland, Ireland, Orkney and the Faeroes
Inbunden, 2011
3277 kr
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Ideology and power are central elements in the political, social, religious and cultural development of the North during the transition from the Viking to the Middle Ages. While the medieval European Christian ideology of rulership has been widely discussed, an analysis of the Nordic pre-Christian …
