Leszek Gardela

The Vikings in Poland

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This pioneering work offers a meticulous exploration of Scandinavian presence in Viking Age Poland and casts a new light on a previously overlooked part of the Viking world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 418
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 165mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 1092g
• ISBN-13: 9781138349391
• ISBN-10: 1138349399
• Artikelnr.: 60009024

Autorenporträt

Leszek Garde¿a is an expert on Scandinavian-Slavic interactions in the Viking Age and leader of a Gerda Henkel Foundation project entitled Slavs in the North: Foreign Elites in Viking Age Scandinavia. With a Habilitation from Ludwig-Maximilians Universität in Munich (2023) and a PhD in Archaeology from the University of Aberdeen (2012), his research encompasses early medieval funerary practices, cult and magic, gender studies, and twentieth-century art.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Research history: Discovering the Vikings in Poland
Chapter 2: The Western Slavic world
Chapter 3: Cultural interactions: Slavs and Scandinavians in the Southern
Baltic
Chapter 4: The Viking diaspora in Pomerania and the Piast state: Identity,
agency, and art
Chapter 5: Material markers of Norse identity in Viking Age Poland
Chapter 6: Norse beliefs in Viking Age Poland
Chapter 7: 'Viking' burials in Poland
Chapter 8: Vikings in Poland, Slavs in Scandinavia ... and Slavic Vikings:
Synthesis, conclusions, and new trajectories