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THE VIKING AGE A Time of Many Faces By Caroline Arcini This book uses results from the examination of a substantial corpus of Swedish osteological material to discuss aspects of demography and health in the Viking period — those which would have been visible and recognisable in the faces or physical appearances of the individuals concerned. It explores the effects of migration, from the spread of new diseases such as leprosy, to patterns of movement and integration of immigrants into society. The skeletal material also allows the study of levels of violence, attitudes towards disablement, and the care provided by Viking communities. An overview of the worldwide phenomenon of modified teeth also gives insight into the practice of deliberate physical embellishment and body modification.
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CILLE PHEADAIR A Norse Farmstead and Pictish Burial Cairn in South Uist By Mike Parker Pearson, Mark Brennand, Jacqui Mulville and Helen Smith Cille Pheadair is one of more than 20 Viking Age and Late Norse settlements discovered on the island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides (Western Isles), off the west coast of Scotland. Its unusually well-preserved stratigraphic sequence of nine phases of occupation provides a remarkable insight into daily life on a Norse farmstead during two centuries of near-continuous occupation c. AD 1000 –1200. Although the excavation at Cille Pheadair was a rescue project undertaken before the site was destroyed by coastal erosion, it provided an opportunity to address important research questions about the domestic use of space, agricultural economy, and relationships with the wider world beyond the Outer Hebrides.
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FARMING TRANSFORMED IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND Agriculture in the Long Eighth Century By Mark McKerracher
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This important new study uses detailed archaeological evidence for the actual crops, animals and facilities that demonstrate innovation and development in arable agriculture and animal husbandry in the seventh and eighth centuries. It combines this physical evidence with documentary sources to reveal how the upper eschelons of society were able to manage and manipulate farming to increase power, develop trade and transform the agricultural economy.
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BESIDE THE OCEAN The Bay of Skaill, Marwick, and Birsay Bay, Orkney, Archaeological Research 2003-18 By David Griffiths, Jane Harrison and Michael Athanson The coastline of Orkney’s North-West Mainland is a location of exceptional archaeological importance. From 2003, a new archaeological research project began to investigate the coastline’s hinterlands. Using the rapidly-developing applications of archaeological geophysics, coupled with topographical survey, it has sought to create a broader and better-informed landscape context. This monograph brings together the survey and excavation results, and tells a new story of an ancient landscape.
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BESIDE THE OCEAN Coastal Landscapes at the Bay of Skaill, Marwick, and Birsay Bay, Orkney
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TRANSFORMATION IN ANGLO-SAXON CULTURE Toller Lectures on Art, Archaeology and Text Edited by Charles Insley and Gale R. Owen-Crocker
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The five authoritative papers presented here are the product of long careers of research into Anglo-Saxon culture. In detail the subject areas and approaches are very different, yet all are cross-disciplinary and the same texts and artefacts weave through several of them. The common element is transformation, the Anglo-Saxon ability to rework older material for new times and the necessary adaptation to new circumstances.
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THE ANGLO-SAXON FENLAND By Susan Oosthuizen
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Archaeologies and histories of the fens of eastern England continue to suggest that the early medieval fenland was dominated by the activities of north-west European colonists in a largely empty landscape. Using existing and new evidence and arguments, this new interdisciplinary history of the Anglo-Saxon fenland offers another interpretation. The fen islands and the silt fens show a degree of occupation unexpected a few decades ago, and the development of the region shows a traditional social order evolving, adapting and innovating in response to changing times.
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CROSSING BOUNDARIES Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Art, Material Culture, Language and Literature of the Early Medieval World Edited by Eric Cambridge and Jane Hawkes In this major collection of 27 papers, contributors transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries to offer new approaches to a number of themes ranging in time from late antiquity to the high Middle Ages. The main focus is on material culture, but also includes insights into the compositional techniques of Bede and the Beowulf-poet, and the strategies adopted by anonymous scribes to record information in unfamiliar languages.
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THE EARLY ANGLO-SAXON KINGDOMS OF SOUTHERN BRITAIN AD 450-650 Beneath the Tribal Hidage By Sue Harrington and Martin Welch
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The Tribal Hidage, attributed to the 7th century, records the named groups and polities of early Anglo-Saxon England and the taxation tribute due from their lands and surpluses. Whilst providing some indication of relative wealth and its distribution, rather little can be deduced from the Hidage concerning the underlying economic and social realities of the communities documented. This book adopts a new approach to these issues, based on archaeological information from 12,000 burials and 28,000 objects of the period AD 450–650.
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BURIAL IN LATER ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND, C.650-1100 AD By Jo Buckberry and Annia Cherryson
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This edited volume is the first that brings together papers by leading researchers in the field and illustrates the diversity of approaches being used to study the burials of this period. The overarching theme of the book is differential treatment in death, which is examined at the sitespecific, settlement, regional and national level. More specifically, the symbolism of conversion-period grave good deposition, the impact of the church, and aspects of identity, burial diversity and biocultural approaches to cemetery analysis are discussed.
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VIKINGS AND THE DANELAW Edited by James Graham-Campbell, Richard Hall, Judith Jesch and David N Parsons This book comprises a selection of papers from the 13th Viking Congress focusing on the northern, central, and eastern regions of Anglo-Saxon England colonised by invading Danish armies in the late 9th century, known as the Danelaw. This volume contributes to many of the unresolved scholarly debates surrounding the concept, and extent of the Danelaw.
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FARMERS, MONKS AND ARISTOCRATS The environmental archaeology of Anglo-Saxon Flixborough By Keith Dobney, Deborah Jaques, James Barrett and Cluny Johnstone
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The environmental archaeological evidence from the site of Flixborough provides a series of unique insights into Anglo-Saxon life in England during the 8th to 10th centuries. The research reveals detailed evidence for the local and regional environment, many aspects of the local and regional agricultural economy, changing resource exploitation strategies and the extent of possible trade and exchange networks. It is one of the most important datasets of the early medieval period, and one which will provide a key benchmark for future research.
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WARRIORS, WARLORDS AND SAINTS The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Mercia By John Hunt
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Anglo Saxon Mercia was a great power in its day, although many aspects of it have been shrouded in myth and mystery. However, recent discoveries, such as the Staffordshire Hoard and the Lichfield Angel, have shone a fascinating light into the world of Mercia and the Mercians. In this book, author John Hunt uses this evidence to paint a vivid picture of this political and cultural powerhouse which, at the height of its influence, ruled over much of England, and reached out across Europe into the Middle East.
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VIKING LANGUAGE 1 Learn Old Norse, Runes and Icelandic Sagas By Jesse L. Byock An introduction to Old Norse and Icelandic. The beginner has everything in one book: Graded lessons, reading passages, vocabulary, grammar exercises, and pronunciation. A full complement of maps, runic inscriptions and culture sections explore the civilization, legends, and myths of the Vikings. The lessons follow an innovative word frequency strategy, a method that speeds learning. Because the grammar of Modern Icelandic has changed so little from Old Norse, the learner is well on the way to mastering Modern Icelandic.
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VIKING LANGUAGE 2 The Old Norse Reader Edited by David Bird Immerses the learner in Old Norse and Icelandic. Readings include a wealth of Old Norse myths, legends, complete Icelandic sagas, poems of the Scandinavian gods, runic inscriptions. There is a large vocabulary and a full reference grammar. Selections from Old Norse and rune texts range from the doom of the gods at the final battle Ragnarok to descriptions of the dwarves’ gold and the ring that inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, Wagner’s Ring Cycle, and a host of modern fantasy.
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A GAZETTEER OF ANGLO-SAXON & ANGLO-SCANDINAVIAN SITES Cambridgeshire & Northamptonshire By Guy Points This Gazetteer aims to be a comprehensive guide to places with architectural features, stone sculpture, artefacts and material of AngloSaxon and Anglo-Scandinavian (Viking) interest in Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. Part 1 provides background material to put the Anglo-Saxons and Anglo-Scandinavians into their historical context, while part 2 identifies 62 “sites” in alphabetical order, with a site index.
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A GAZETTEER OF ANGLO-SAXON, ANGLO-SCANDINAVIAN & HIBERNO-NORSE SITES Cumbria, Dumfriesshire & Wigtownshire By Guy Points Intended for the student and non-specialist alike, as well as those who already have some knowledge of the subjects covered, this book bridges the divide between an academic approach and that of the interested general public. The aim is to provide an informed introduction to the subjects so that the reader will be able to confidently recognise Anglo-Saxon church architectural features and Anglo-Saxon and AngloScandinavian stone sculpture.
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AN INTRODUCTION TO ANGLOSAXON CHURCH ARCHITECTURE & ANGLO-SAXON & ANGLOSCANDINAVIAN STONE SCULPTURE By Guy Points
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The aim of this book is to provide an informed introduction, so that the reader will be able to confidently recognise Anglo-Saxon church architectural features and Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Scandinavian stone sculpture. The contents, including illustrations and photographs, all meticulously checked on site, are drawn from the author’s extensive research and travels over many years. Especially useful is the gazetteer section offering a selection of 127 sites.
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THE COMBINED ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLES By Guy Points
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This book enables rapid access to the events recorded in any one year in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle which was created in the late ninth century. The author provides a narrative in chronological order of the information provided by the extant manuscripts using as his principal source “The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle”, translated by G. N. Garmonsway. He further develops and abridges the Garmonsway version to produce one continuous text. Overall, the condensed narrative and unique methodology of presentation make the wealth of material in the several manuscripts more easily accessible to everyone.
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YORKSHIRE A Gazetteer of Anglo-Saxon and Viking Sites By Guy Points This gazetteer aims to be a comprehensive guide to places, artefacts and material in Yorkshire of Anglo-Saxon and Viking interest AD400-1100, comprising 282 sites. Each entry is rated to indicate the quality of what there is to see and how easy it is to find, and the sites are described in detail, including measurements and descriptions of decoration where appropriate. Part one also provides background material with illustrations about the Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, the Early Church, church building styles and architecture, plans and features of Anglo-Saxon churches, crossheads, cross-shafts, grave covers and grave markers.
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A GAZETTEER OF ANGLO-SAXON AND VIKING SITES County Durham and Northumberland By Guy Points
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This book aims to be a comprehensive guide to places, artefacts and material of Anglo-Saxon and Viking interest in County Durham and Northumberland (pre 1974 borders). Four sites in Roxburghshire are included because of their proximity to the Northumberland border. The sites are listed in alphabetical order, star rated to indicate the quality of what there is to see and how easy it is to find, and precisely located and described, including measurements and descriptions of decoration where appropriate.
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EAA 63: ILLINGTON the Study of a Breckland Parish and its Anglo-Saxon Cemetery By Alan Davison, Barbara Green and William Milligan
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Examines excavations and studies of the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Illington. 200 cremation urns and 3 inhumations were mapped and lifted, and the remains of about 200 other vessels were also recovered. The cremated human bones were the subject of a pioneering study by the late Calvin Wells. Alan Davison’s parish survey did not locate any Early Saxon domestic sites, and it is thought that the original Saxon holding may have been larger than the medieval parish.
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EAA 68: EXCAVATIONS AT FISHERGATE, NORWICH 1985 By Brian Ayers Report on excavations undertaken off Norwich’s Fishergate to the north of the River Wensum, the first to reach Saxon deposits in this important southern end of the city. The report examines the excavation sequence; the artefacts; the environmental evidence, detailing knowledge of the river and its environs; the documentary evidence, drawing on material from the Enrolled Deeds and other sources, outlining the development of the area; post-medieval industrial buildings on the site.
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EAA 92: EXCAVATIONS ON THE NORWICH SOUTHERN BYPASS, 1989-91 PART II The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Harford Farm, Markshall, Norfolk By K. Penn
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The Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Harford Farm consisted of two groups of late 7th-century inhumation burials surviving only as stains within a prehistoric barrow cemetery. Of the 31 graves grouped on a bluff overlooking the river, most contained either unaccompanied burials or burials with just knife and buckle; but three, all probably female, were lavishly equipped. The 15 graves further south were mostly ‘knife and buckle’ burials.
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EAA 95: SNAPE ANGLO-SAXON CEMETERY Excavations and Surveys 1824-1992 By William Filmer-Sankey and Tim Pestell The Snape Anglo-Saxon cemetery stands in the Sandlings area of east Suffolk. The first recorded excavations revealed the remains of a complete Anglo-Saxon ship burial, the first to be found in England. Subsequent excavations took place in 1972 and 1985. This report attempts to publish all the material known to have been excavated from the cemetery although the urns and their contents from the first excavations have become dispersed over the years and many undoubtedly lost.
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EAA 111: THE EARLY ANGLO-SAXON CEMETERY AND LATER SAXON SETTLEMENT AT SPRINGFIELD LYONS, ESSEX By Susan Tyler and Hilary Major This is the second of three reports detailing the excavations of multiperiod cropmark sites at Springfield, near Chelmsford, Essex. It deals with the excavated features and finds relating to the Saxon period at Springfield. The Saxon cemetery is superimposed on the circular Bronze Age enclosure, and may owe its location to the partial survival of the earlier monument.
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EAA 127: AN EARLY SAXON CEMETERY AT RAYLEIGH, ESSEX By Trevor Ennis An early Anglo-Saxon cemetery was identified and excavated within the grounds of the former Park School, Rayleigh, Essex, in advance of development. The remains of 145 cremation burials, a further 4 possible cremation burials, a single possible inhumation burial and 16 cemeteryrelated features were excavated over an area of 4325 sq m, most of which had been severely truncated. Although the majority of the cemetery appeared to be within the area of excavation, it is highly likely that further burials lie beyond the southern limit of the development.
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ANGLO-SAXON STUDIES IN ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY 20 Early Medieval Monasticism in the North Sea Zone: Recent Research and New Perspectives Edited by Gabor Thomas, Alexandra Knox and Helena Hamerow Drawing upon the contributions of leading historians and archaeologists, the volume provides a fresh examination of monasticism in Anglo-Saxon Kent framed within its wider north-west European context, together with a range of complementary perspectives on Lyminge as a key site for understanding the broader processes of Christianisation and kingdom formation in early medieval Europe.
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DANES IN WESSEX The Scandinavian Impact on Southern England, c. 800–c. 1100 Edited by Ryan Lavelle and Simon Roffey Two major topics, the Viking wars and the Danish landowning elite, figure strongly in this collection but are shown not to be the sole reasons for the presence of Danes, or items associated with them, in Wessex. Multidisciplinary approaches evoke Vikings and Danes not just through the written record, but through their impact on real and imaginary landscapes and via the objects they owned or produced.
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AN ANGLO-SAXON CEMETERY AT COLLINGBOURNE DUCIS, WILTSHIRE By Kirsten Egging Dinwiddy and Nick Stoodley Excavations at Collingbourne Ducis revealed almost the full extent of a late 5th–7th century cemetery first recorded in 1974, providing one of the largest samples of burial remains from Anglo-Saxon Wiltshire. The cemetery lies 200m to the north-east of a broadly contemporaneous settlement on lower lying ground next to the River Bourne. The extent of the excavtion allows observations to be made about its establishment, layout and development.
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THE ANGLO-SAXON CEMETERY AT BLACKNALL FIELD, PEWSEY, WILTSHIRE By F. K. Annable and B. N. Eagles This monograph was commenced by Ken Annable, who directed the excavation of the early pre-Christian Saxon cemetery in the Vale of Pewsey between 1969 and 1976. Following Annable’s death the work was taken up by Bruce Eagles with the support of an international team of specialists. The 104 graves of the Blacknall Field cemetery contained a wealth of high quality and remarkable grave goods. These artefacts and the human remains are described and discussed along with the social structure of the community and placed in their wider European context.
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THE WINCHESTER MINT AND COINS AND RELATED FINDS FROM THE EXCAVATIONS OF 1961-71 By Martin Biddle Over three and a half centuries from the 880s to 1250, moneyers working in Winchester produced at the very least 24 million silver pennies. About five and a half thousand survive in national and local museums and private collections all over the world and have been sought out, photographed (some 3200 coins in 6400 images detailing both sides), and minutely catalogued by Yvonne Harvey for this volume.
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VIKING WORLDS Things, Spaces and Movement Edited by Marianne Hem Eriksen, Unn Pedersen, Bernt Rundberget, Irmelin Axelsen and Heidi Lund Berg Explores a variety of inter-disciplinary approaches to understanding the Viking past, both in Scandinavia and in the Viking diaspora. Contributions employ both traditional inter- or multi-disciplinarian perspectives such as using historical sources, Icelandic sagas and Eddic poetry and also specialised methodologies and/or empirical studies, place-name research, the history of religion and technological advancements, such as isotope analysis.
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ANGLO-SAXON TEXTUAL ILLUSTRATION By Thomas H. Ohlgren This volume contains some 415 photographs of the entire illustrations and major decoration of sixteen Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, fully described and indexed, and reproduced here for the first time. The manuscripts included in this collection are: the Athelstan Psalter; the Harley Psalter; the Bury Psalter; the Paris Psalter; the Boulogne Gospels; the Arnberg Gospels; the Trinity Gospels; the Eadui Codex; the Bury Gospels; the Judith of Flanders Gospels; the Hereford Gospels; the Psychomachia of Prudentius; the Junius Manuscript.
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EYE AND MIND Collected Essays in Anglo-Saxon and Early Medieval Art By Robert Deshman Robert Deshman wove together a dense and tightly structured nexus of Early Christian, Carolingian, Anglo-Saxon, and Ottonian manuscript illuminations, ivories, textiles, mosaics, and wall paintings on the one hand, and contemporary exegetical, liturgical, and political writings on the other.
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In so doing, he ultimately demonstrated the intrinsic connections among visual culture, theology, philosophy, political theory, and ecclesiastic doctrine and practice. The thirteen articles collected in this volume were published between 1971 and 1997 in six different journals and four edited books.
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THE ANGLO-SAXON CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, BRIXWORTH, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Survey, Excavation and Analysis, 1972-2010 By David Parsons and Diana Sutherland An unprecedented account of one of the most important buildings of its period surviving in England. The building of the main body of the church was towards the end of the 8th century, with a western tower, stair turret and polygonal apse added before the end of the 9th. Major modifications were made during the early and later medieval periods.
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SEX AND SEXUALITY IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND Essays in Memory of Daniel Gillmore Calder Edited by Carol Braun Pasternack and Lisa M. C. Weston Sex and Sexuality in Anglo-Saxon England is the first collection of essays, indeed the first book, to explore the cultural constructions of sex, the sexes, and sexualities in Anglo-Saxon England. The articles interrogate the discourses by which potentially reproductive and erotic elements of the body are understood and deployed.
9780866983204 • HARDBACK • 284 PAGES MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE TEXTS SOCIETY
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THE LAST VIKINGS The Epic Story of the Great Norse Voyagers By Kirsten A. Seaver
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A well-researched general history of the Norse colonisation of Greenland. Combining archaeology with the sagas, and meagre mentions in other European sources, Kirsten Seaver looks at the exploration westward attributed to Eirik the Red and Leif Eirikson, and the colonies and trading posts which were established. Social structure, and relations with Europe are also examined, and there is an interesting and sensible speculative discussion as to the reasons behind the colony’s late medieval disappearance. An epilogue debunks some of the myths surrounding Viking North America.
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BUCKLAND ANGLO-SAXON CEMETERY, DOVER By Keith Parfitt and Trevor Anderson This volume reports on the 1994 excavations at Buckland, Dover, which uncovered another 244 graves in the extensive Anglo-Saxon cemetery first excavated by Professor Vera Evison in 1951-3. Just over two thirds of the burials contained grave goods. Several male burials contained a sword, others a spear and sometimes a shield. Women’s graves included brooches and beads and a variety of other objects.
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WRITING POWER IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND By Catherine A. M. Clarke This book explores how power is shaped and negotiated in later AngloSaxon texts, focusing in particular on how hierarchical, vertical structures are presented alongside patterns of reciprocity and economies of mutual obligation, especially within the context of patronage relationships. Through close analysis of a wide selection of sources in the vernacular and Latin, the study examines how texts sustain dual ways of seeing and understanding power, generating a range of imaginative possibilities along with tensions, ambiguities and instances of disguise or euphemism.
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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE VIKING AGE By John Haywood This work uncovers the fascinatiing history of the Vikings, at both peace and war. Over 400 lavishly illustrated articles examine all aspects of Viking society, including its history, laws and customs, industry, and arts and literature. “... [an] astute, useful summary of what modern scholars can now tell us about the Vikings; the photographs are pinsharp.” The Independent
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AEDIFICIA NOVA Studies in Honor of Rosemary Cramp Edited by Helen Damico and Catherine Karkov While the essays offered in this collection vary in subject, discipline, and methodological approach, they all centre on the interpretation of the material world. Contributors address the themes of time in history; societal and ideological change and continuity; iconic style and polysemous textuality; symbolic and representational interpretation; gender-specific economic production; definitions of social and political structures; and social processes of eclecticism and adaptation.
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EXCAVATIONS ON ST PATRICK’S ISLE, PEEL, ISLE OF MAN 1982-1988 Prehistoric, Viking, Medieval By David Freke This report has specialist contributions on aspects of the Peel Castle site. Sections are included on Viking Age artefacts, an assessment of the Early Christian cross slabs, a description of the Norse coins, the application of new analytical techniques to the study of Norse beads, the analysis of the largest assemblage of pottery from any site in the Isle of Man, and the similarly important groups of fish bones, bird bones, animal bones and human bones.
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PAINTED LABYRINTH The World of the Lindisfarne Gospels By Michelle P. Brown Created some time between AD715 and 720 at the monastery of Lindisfarne, the Lindisfarne Gospels is one of the most beautiful creations of the Insular art tradition of Anglo-Saxon England. Accompanying an exhibition held at the British Library in 2003, this guide outlines the history and production of the Gospels and discusses their religious context, the labyrinthine web of words and images, production of the manuscripts and their significance to those who made them and to the kingdom of Anglo-Saxon Northumbria as a whole.
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VIKINGS AT WAR By Kim Hjardar and Vegard Vike Never before have the Viking art of war, weapons and the history of their conquests been presented together in such detail. With over 380
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colour illustrations including beautiful reconstruction drawings, maps, cross-section drawings of ships, line-drawings of fortifications, battle plan reconstructions and photos of surviving artefacts including weapons and jewellery. Vikings at War provides a vivid account of one of Europe’s most exciting epochs. Vikings at War was awarded the Norwegian literary prize ‘Saga Prize’ in 2012; currently in its fourth printing in Norwegian, this translation makes it available for the first time in English.
9781612004037 • HARDBACK • 400 PAGES • CASEMATE UK
INTO THE MELTING POT Kaupang Excavation Projects Publications Series By Unn Pedersen This fourth volume in the Kaupang Excavation Projects Publicataions series examines workshops and discusses the craftspeople in the Viking town of Kaupang including their activities, crafted products, raw materials, skills and networks. The study focuses on artefacts used in on-ferrous metalworking: crucibles, moulds, matrix dies, tuyeres and a unique collection of lead models. The tools and the waste material provide a completely new understanding of the craftspeople who were working with gold, silver, copper alloys, lead and tin.
9788779343108 • HARDBACK • 222 PAGES AARHUS UNIVERSITY PRESS
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WATER AND FIRE The Myth of the Flood in Anglo-Saxon England By Daniel Anlezark
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Noah’s Flood is one of the most popular and enduring stories from the Bible, and flood myths still exist in many cultures today. This book presents the first comprehensive examination of the incorporation of the Flood myth into the Anglo-Saxon imagination. Focusing on literary representations, it contrubutes to our understanding of how Christian Anglo-Saxons perceived their place in the cosmos. Anlezark studies a range of texts against their historical backdrop, and discusses shifting emphases in the way the flood was interpreted for diverse audiences.
9780719063985 • HARDBACK • 384 PAGES MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
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