Vikings Across Boundaries: Viking-Age Transformations - Volume II

This volume explores the changes that occurred during the Viking Age, as Scandinavian societies fell in line with the larger forces that dominated the Insular world and Continental Europe, absorbing Christianity and monarchy, adapting to royal lineage and supremacy, and developing a bustling urbanism coupled with large-scale trade networks. It offers studies of a range of phenomena, including urban and rural settlements, continuity in the use of places, social significance of change, construction and maintenance of social identity, ethnicity, and ideas of identity and the creation and recreation of identity both at home and abroad.

Format: Hardback
Length: 310 pages
Publication date: 27 October 2020
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive volume delves into the transformative era of the Viking Age, as Scandinavian societies seamlessly integrated with the dominant forces that shaped the Insular world and Continental Europe. It explores the profound symbiosis of Christianity and monarchy, adapting to the concept of royal lineage and supremacy, and fostering a vibrant urbanism accompanied by extensive trade networks. By presenting research in both a grand and localized context, this book contributes to enhancing collaborations between local and international scholars in the study of the Viking Age.

Through a diverse range of approaches, the book examines various phenomena, including urban and rural settlements, the continuity and transformation of places, the social significance of change, the construction and maintenance of social identities both within and across vast territories, ethnicity, and the complex ideas of identity formation and recreation both at home and abroad.

This volume holds immense appeal to historians and archaeologists with a keen interest in Viking-Age studies, as well as scholars of Scandinavian studies. It provides a rich and multifaceted perspective on this pivotal period, shedding light on the complex interplay of cultural, social, and political forces that shaped the Viking world.

Weight: 794g
Dimension: 162 x 240 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367364526