دانلود کتاب The Vikings

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Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Viking Variations
Defining the Vikings
1 The Vikings Begin
Northern Landscapes, Northern Peoples
The Sámi
Scandinavian Prehistories
The Lords of the Hall
A World in Motion
The Vikings Begin
2 Viking Lives and Landscapes
Kinship and Community Relations
Social Organisation
Life on the Land
An Economy of Things
Going to Market
Ships and the Sea
Language and Literacy
The Rule of Law
Violence and Society
The Visual World
3 Tradition and World-View
Cosmogony and the Norse Story-World
The Invisible Population
The Ritual Landscape and its Agents
Living with the Dead
Imagining the Afterlife
The Good Viking?
4 The Viking Diaspora
The ‘First Vikings’ in the East
The Early Raids in the West
Fighting for Frankia, Invading England
The Danelaw and the Kingdom of York
The Irish Sea
Scotland and the Isles
From Andalucia to Aachen
The Opening of the North Atlantic
The Rise of the Rus’
Mikligarðr and the Caliphate
Full Circle: Unknowingly into Another World
5 Church and State
Faith and Power
Scandinavian Contacts with Christianity
The Vikings and Islam
The Viking-Age State
Christian Lifestyles
Conversion in the Overseas Settlements
Viking ‘Empires’?
The Old World Order
Bibliography
Index