Viking-Age Rune-Stones - Custom and Commemoration in Early Medieval Scandinavia

Zusatztext Thorough statistical coverage, backed up by a seventy page "Catalogue" ... her work puts the English-speaking reader for the frst time in possession of the basic information painstakingly recorded by Scandinavian scholars, as well as providing an entirely fresh and convincing explanation of the Viking Age corpus ... Birgit Sawyer [has] offered models of patient and dispassionate research in potentially exciting and contested areas. Zusammenfassung This is the first historical study of the whole body of late Viking runic inscription stones in Scandinavia. The 2300 inscriptions which are more or less complete yield unexpected information on a wide range of topics, including the conversion of Scandinavia to Christianity, the growth of royal power, and, most important of all, the inheritance customs of the period.

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• Authors: Birgit Sawyer, Birgit (Professor of History Sawyer, Sawyer Birgit
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2000
• EAN: 9780198206439
• ISBN: 978-0-19-820643-9
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; History: specific events & topics, European History, Anthropology, comparative religion, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, History: specific events and topics, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Archaeology by period / region, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, HISTORY / Europe / Nordic Countries