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An illustrated examination of the role of nomads in the history of warfare, which discusses the weapons, tactics, and battles of the Huns, Arabs, Turks, Mongols, and Vikings. Includes maps, biographies, and a chronology.
Living in Viking-age towns / David Griffiths -- Towns and identities in Viking England / Gareth Williams -- Viking Dublin: enmities, alliances and the cold gleam of silver / Emer Purcell and John Sheehan -- Constructing and experiencing urban landscapes. -- Beyond Longphuirt? Li…
The Norsemen in the Viking Age is a lively introduction to Norsemen in the period 750-1050. Without dismissing stereotypes of aggressive, warmongering Vikings, Eric Christiansen shows how Nordic peoples responded to hostile environments at home and overseas. He concentrates on l…
Far from being just 'wild, barbaric, axe-wielding pirates', the Vikings created complex social institutions, oversaw the coming of Christianity to Scandinavia and made a major impact on European history through trade, as Roesdahl reveals.
Viking Empires is a definitive new history of five hundred years of Viking civilization and the first study of the global implications of the expansion, integration, and reorientation of the Viking World. From the first contact in the 790s, the book traces the political, militar…