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Kings and Warriors in Early North-West Europe
ISBN: 9781846825019 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book explores the representation of the warrior in relation to the king in early north-west Europe. These essays, by scholars from the areas of Norse, Celtic and Anglo-Saxon studies, examine how medieval writers highlighted the role of the warrior in relation to kings, or to authority, and to society as a whole. The warrior who fought for his people was also a danger to them. How was such a destructive force to be controlled? The Christian church sought to challenge the ethos of the pagan tribal warrior and to reduce the barbarism of warfare (at least its worst excesses). We can follow...
This book explores the representation of the warrior in relation to the king in early north-west Europe. These essays, by scholars from the areas of N...
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243,34 zł |
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Ideology and Power in the Viking and Middle Ages: Scandinavia, Iceland, Ireland, Orkney and the Faeroes
ISBN: 9789004205062 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Ideology and power are central elements in the political, social, religious and cultural development of the North during the transition from the Viking to the Middle Ages. While the medieval European Christian ideology of rulership has been widely discussed, an analysis of the Nordic pre-Christian ideology, and of its confrontation with the new European ideals has so far been lacking. This book examines the concepts and practices associated with chieftains, earls and kings from the ninth to the thirteenth century: the myths and rituals surrounding their position in a northern European warrior...
Ideology and power are central elements in the political, social, religious and cultural development of the North during the transition from the Vikin...
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cena:
764,49 zł |