Monarchs and Hydrarchs: The Conceptual Development of Viking Activity Across the Frankish Realm (C. 750-940)

ISBN-13: 9780367202149 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 292 str.

Christian Cooijmans

Opis

Set against a backdrop of continuous commerce and knowledge exchange, this volume demonstrates the existence of a relatively uniform, sequential framework of wealth extraction, encampment, and political engagement, within which Scandinavian fleets operated as adaptable, ambulant polities – or ‘hydrarchies’.

Spis treści

I. Introduction;  II. The Scandinavian Perspective;  III. Carolingian Francia;  IV. Earliest Franco-Scandinavian Contact (up to 814);  V. Early Viking Encounters (up to 840);  VI. Intensified Viking Activity (c. 840s-930s);  VII. Conceptual Development Model;  VIII. Concluding Remarks and Discussion

O autorze

Christian Cooijmans is a British Academy Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool, UK. Having obtained his doctorate from the University of Edinburgh, his research focusses on the reach and repercussions of viking endeavour across mainland Europe, as well as its ensuing, premodern historiography.