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Embers of the Hands
Eleanor Barraclough
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
'Brilliantly written ... evokes the wonder of an entire civilisation.' Tom Holland, author of Pax and co-host of The Rest is History
'Splendid - an intimate portrait of the Viking Age. Highly recommended.' Neil Price, author of The Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
'Takes us beyond the familiar into a real, visceral, far more satisfying Viking world.' Dan Snow
Imagine a Viking, and a certain image springs to mind: a nameless, faceless warrior, leaping ashore from a longboat, and ready to terrorise the hapless local population of a northern European country.
Yet while such characters define the Viking Age today, they were in the minority. This is the history of all the other people - children, enslaved people, seers, artisans, travellers, writers - who inhabited the medieval Nordic world. Encompassing not just Norway, Denmark and Sweden, but also Iceland, Greenland, parts of the British Isles, Continental Europe and Russia, this is a history of a Viking Age filled with real people of different ages, genders and ethnicities, as told through the traces that they left behind, from hairstyles to place names, love-notes to gravestones.
For the first time, you can immerse yourself in the day-to-day lives of extraordinary culture which spanned centuries and spread from the edge of the North American continent to the Russian steppes, from the Arctic wastelands to the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic Caliphate.
Rezensionen
A book that is entertaining as well as erudite... There is no doubting Barraclough'
<b>Praise for <i>Beyond the Northlands</i>:</b>
A vibrant account that evokes the spirit of the Viking age in a thoroughly entertaining, yet historically sound, fashion
Brilliantly written, brilliantly conceived, a history of the Vikings that deploys their material legacy - from combs to slave collars, from skulls to sundials - to evoke the wonder of an entire civilisation.
Barraclough has a gift for taking us beyond the familiar into a real, visceral, far more satisfying Viking world.
Adventurous scholarship.
Eleanor Barraclough'
Kundenbewertungen
history of Europe, runes, Scandinavia, artefacts, Medieval history, material culture, Norsemen, Vikings, the Viking Age, British history, British Museum, Janina Ramirez Femina, Cat Jarman River Kings, European history, Medieval Bodies Jack Hartnell, Old Norse, archaeology