"Oliver Cromwell had not a drop of royal blood in him. Yet in 1657, prompted by the political chaos that followed the execution of Charles I and inspired by a belief that a return to monarchy was the only way to stabilize the nation, parliament offered Cromwell the crown of Brit…
This book discusses the 3rd-11th century developments that led to the formation of the three Scandinavian kingdoms in the Viking Age. Wide-ranging studies of communication routes, regional identities, judicial territories, and royal sites and graves trace a complex trajectory of…
Rulership in 1st to 14th century Scandinavia: royal graves and sites at Avaldsnes and beyond
by Østmo, Einar, Østmo, Mari Arentz, Iversen, Frode, Bill, Jan, Sand-Eriksen, Anette, Nordlie, Erlend, Hommedal, Alf Tore, Opsahl, Erik
fromErgänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumsk…
This book discusses the 3rd-11th century developments that led to the formation of the three Scandinavian kingdoms in the Viking Age. Wide-ranging studies of communication routes, regional identities, judicial territories, and royal sites and graves trace a complex trajectory of…
"Although it is often assumed that resurgent royal government eliminated so-called private warfare, the French judicial archives reveal nearly one hundred such wars waged in Languedoc and the Auvergne between the mid-thirteenth and the end of the fourteenth century. Royal admini…
