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 There are over 3000 runic inscriptions on stone made in Scandinavia in the late Viking Age. This book is the first attempt by a historian to study the material as a whole. The analysis reveals significant regional variations that reflect different stages in the process of conversion, and the growth of royal power. Many monuments were declarations of faith or manifestations of status; but virtually all reflect inheritance claims, and cast unexpected light on the prehistory of the inheritance customs found in later Scandinavian law codes. The results of this analysis make a significant contribution to understanding developments in other parts of the Germanic world, as well as Scandinavia. The inclusion of a digest of the data-base on which this book is based will facilitate further study of this rich vein of evidence.

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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