Dagfinn Skre

The Northern Routes to Kingship (eBook, PDF)

A History of Scandinavia AD 180-550

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that tribal Scandinavia was set on the route to kingship by the arrival in the AD 180s-90s of warrior groups that were dismissed from the Roman army after defeating the Marcomanni by the Danube.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 694
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040216521
• Artikelnr.: 72593445

Autorenporträt

Dagfinn Skre is professor at the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo. Over the last 40 years, he has researched several aspects of Iron-Age, Viking, and Medieval Scandinavia, including political, economic, ecclesiastical, urban, and monetary history. His publications include multi-volume series on the Viking town Kaupang and the kingly manor Avaldsnes.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Tables
Abbreviations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I Coming to Grips with Early Kingship - 1. Post-1970 Kingship Studies: How to Proceed?
2. Rulers and Polities: Tribes, Lordships, and Kingdoms
3. Religiously Derived Ethics: A Societal Perspective
Part II The Military Twist: Armies, Lords, and Retainers (AD 180-450) - 4. Warriors and Traders
5. Kinsmen and Strangers
6. Settling and Sustaining the Men
PART III Obtaining Wealth for Gifts and Rewards (AD 180-450) - 7. Long-Distance Routes and Relations
8. Iron from the Woodlands
9. Arctic Wildlife Commodities
10. Raiding for Slaves
PART IV Olden Ways, New Beginnings (AD 180-500) - 11. Wealth and Warfare: The Precarious Politics of Lordship
12. The Transformative 5th Century
PART V Building the Kingdom - 13. Swearing in the Men
14. Granting the Land
15. Kingship in the Heroic Age
Epilogue: Colonialist and Emic Approaches
Notes
Bibliography
Index.