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Informationen zum Autor Angelo Forte is Chair of Commercial Law at the University of Aberdeen and a specialist in maritime law. Klappentext This definitive new global history of the Viking world offers a groundbreaking work on the Viking Age--from North America to the Baltic States. 60 halftones. Zusammenfassung Viking Empires! first published in 2005! is a definitive history of the Viking World and the first study of the global implications of its expansion! integration! and reorientation. From the first contact in the 790s the book traces the political! military! social! cultural and religious history of the Viking Age from Iceland to Lithuania. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Viking raiders, Scandinavian Kingdoms and the wider world; 2. The Beginnings; 3. First contact: England and the continent; 4. Ireland and Scotland; 5. A Water World; 6. Conquest and integration, c. 950-1260; 7. The second Viking age in England, c. 970-1066; 8. The Irish Sea; 9. Scotland and the Vikings; 10. Orkney and Shetland; 11. Crossing the North Atlantic; 12. Sailing the North Atlantic; 13. Scandinavia and European integration: reform and rebirth; 14. Conclusion.
