Alexandra Sanmark

Viking Law and Order

Places and Rituals of Assembly in the Medieval North

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using archaeological evidence, written sources and place-names, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the Viking legal system and assembly sites, showing that this formed an integral part of Norse culture and identity, to the extent that the assembly institution was brought to all Norse settlements.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 516g
• ISBN-13: 9781474445757
• ISBN-10: 1474445756
• Artikelnr.: 53693783

Autorenporträt

Alexandra Sanmark is Reader in Medieval Archaeology at the Centre for Nordic Studies, University of the Highlands and Islands. She specialises in The Viking Age in Scandinavia and the Viking expansion in the west and the North Atlantic, with a particular focus on landscape archaeology. She is also a specialist in the Christianisation of Europe and Scandinavia as well as Viking-age religion and ritual.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures; List of Tables; Abbreviations; Acknowledgement; Preface
1. Assembly Research: Past and Present
2. Early Germanic and Norse Assembly Organisations
3. Introducing the Assembly Sites of Scandinavia
4. Elite Rituals at Scandinavian Assemblies
5. Assembly Sites in Scandinavia: Activities and Rituals of the Community
6. Centralisation of Power: Christianity and Urbanisation
7. Norse in the North Atlantic: Iceland, Faroe Islands and Greenland
8. Norse in Scotland: Assembly and New Ancestors
9. Assemblies in the Longue Durée
Glossary; Bibliography; Index