Kategoria BISAC: History >> Europe - Nordic Countries

Die etwa 3.000 erhaltenen skandinavischen Runensteine der Wikinger gelten nach dem gangigen wissenschaftlichen Verstandnis als Totengedenksteine. Tatsachlich enthalten aber nur 218 Inschriften dieser Runensteine explizite Aussagen zum Thema Tod und Sterben.
Die vorliegende Studie stellt die Inschriftengruppen mit und ohne Sterbeterminologie einander gegenuber. Bei der Herangehensweise mit statistischen Hilfsmitteln betritt die Autorin innerhalb der Runologie methodisches Neuland. Sie stellt die Erforschung der wikingerzeitlichen Runensteininschriften auf eine solide empirische...

This monograph represents an expansion and deepening of previous works by Ole J. Benedictow - the author of highly esteemed monographs and articles on the history of plague epidemics and historical demography. In the form of a collection of articles, the author presents an in-depth monographic study on the history of plague epidemics in Scandinavian countries and on controversies of the microbiological and epidemiological fundamentals of plague epidemics.

The author, well-known as an outstanding Byzantine canonist, was Archbishop of Ohrid (approx. 1216-1236) and practically assumed the position of a Patriarch. The Corpus of the Pone-mata diaphora (personal and official letters, expert testimonies and verdicts and proceedings of the Ohrid Synodal Court) is his major work. It pro--vides complex source material of major importance in two ways: historically because of the detailed information on the political and ecclesiastical history of South-Eastern Europe at the time of radical change around 1204; legally because texts (let alone corpora)...

Roman Reflections uses a series of detailed and deeply researched case studies to explore how Roman society connected with and influenced Northern Europe during the Iron and Viking Ages. In an original way, the book brings late prehistoric Denmark - best known for its so-called 'bog bodies' - into a world dominated by textual histories, principally that of Tacitus.

The studies include a new examination of the bog-bodies of the late first millennium BC, a classical archaeological puzzle: men, women and children murdered yet respected in death and adorned with items of fine...

..".the articles, taken together, provide an exciting picture of the diversity that is unified in the Nordic region... and] a significant contribution to the discussion of multiple modernities." - Scandinavian-Canadian Studies/Etudes scandinaves au Canada

"The contributors to this volume are supremely well-qualified to explore these themes; most of them have spent long and distinguished careers researching these or similar questions...As one might expect, the book impresses above all with the weight of scholarship displayed here." - H-Soz-u-Kult

..".the chapters are lucidly...

Seeking economic improvement or a fresh start, following family or news of a land of opportunity, Norwegians left their homeland for America in great numbers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They settled in Pennsylvania and Illinois and moved on to Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and the Dakotas, finding in the "preire" or "praerie" a promising and hospitable landscape and they wrote home about it.

From these letters some published in newspapers or newsletters, most found on family farms and in homes held for generation after generation comes a polyphonic history of...