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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"The Vikings"”.
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How the Vikings inhabited Scotland: a social zooarchaeological approach
The field of human-animal relations is a growing area of research, and with regard to the Viking Age the majority of this research has concerned the Scandinavian homelands. Scotland has been recognised as important in the widespread migration of the Vikings, yet subject to little theoretical …
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Wicing Sceal on Waelstowe: The Viking Maxim in The Battle of Maldon
In The Battle of Maldon, the valor of the English who fight is never in question. The infamy of the cowards who flee is evident. The way the poet views the Vikings, however, is slightly less obvious. The poet treats all characters who act within the contract of battle with a sort of biased …
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"Inside that fortress sat a few peasant men, and it was half-made": a study of 'Viking' fortifications in the British Isles, AD793-1066
The study of Viking fortifications is a neglected subject which could reveal much to archaeologists about the Viking way of life. The popular representation of these Scandinavian seafarers is often as drunken, bloodthirsty heathens who rampaged across Britain leaving a trail of destruction in their …
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The Early Medieval Cutting Edge of Technology: An archaeometallurgical, technological and social study of the manufacture and use of Anglo-Saxon and Viking iron knives, and their contribution to the early medieval iron economy.
… of archaeometallurgical studies carried out in the 1980s and 1990s of early medieval (c. AD410-1100) iron knives revealed several patterns, with clear differences in knife manufacturing techniques present in rural cemeteries and later urban settlements. The main aim of this research is to …
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The Duality of Textiles
… been an integral part of human society since the knowledge of how to create thread from fiber developed. In the Age of the Vikings, textiles played a greater role than they do today. They acted as a form of currency, especially in Iceland where there was no metalic coinage production. For …
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Settlement and landscape in the Northern Isles; a multidisciplinary approach. Archaeological research into long term settlements and thier associated arable fields from the Neolithic to the Norse periods.
The research contained in these papers embodies both results from direct archaeological investigation and also the development of techniques (geophysical, chronological and geoarchaeological) in order to understand long-term settlements and their associated landscapes in Orkney and Shetland. …
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Effective factual TV content for young audiences : exploring new approaches to creating history documentaries for 6 - 12 -year - olds in digital UK television
… interdisciplinary original research engages with the fields of TV documentary production, children’s television, historiography, and the pedagogy of history teaching. From this large field, I am taking what is necessary for my research as a practitioner. The purpose of my practice-based PhD …
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Perceptions of Peoples in Early Medieval Wales
This PhD dissertation investigates the construction of identities in the early Middle Ages, focusing on three key texts conventionally dated to the ninth and tenth centuries: Historia Brittonum, Asser’s Life of King Alfred, and Armes Prydein Vawr. I examine the way these writers constructed ideas …
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Scandinavian and other influences on the Tristan story, with special consideration of the Morholt episode
<p>The story of Tristan and Isolde was long a favorite of medieval poets. This is attested by the numerous versions which have survived and the many manuscripts in which these various versions are preserved. It is also apparent that portions of the story must have possessed a long oral tradition …
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God's agency and the recent past in Carolingian history writing, c.750-900
The historians writing in the Carolingian Empire, with a few important exceptions, frequently ascribed events in recent history to God. Where they have been noticed at all, these statements of God’s agency have usually been explained as political propaganda, to demonstrate God’s favour towards the …