Viking Law and Order : : Places and Rituals of Assembly in the Medieval North /

Viking Law and Order : : Places and Rituals of Assembly in the Medieval North / / Alexandra Sanmark.

The first detailed appraisal of Norse assembly sites, providing detailed discussion of their archaeological profile and landscape settingListen to Alex Sanmark discuss 'Thingvellir and Viking Assembly Sites' on The History of Vikings podcast.Until very recently Viking and Norse assembly si...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Sanmark, Alexandra,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2017
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 100 B/W illustrations 24 B/W line art
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • 1 Assembly Research: Past and Present
  • 2 Early Germanic and Norse Assembly Organisations
  • 3 Introducing the Assembly Sites of Scandinavia
  • 4 Elite Rituals at Scandinavian Assemblies
  • 5 Assembly Sites in Scandinavia: Activities and Rituals of the Community
  • 6 Centralisation of Power: Christianity and Urbanisation
  • 7 The Norse in the North Atlantic: Iceland, Faroe Islands and Greenland
  • 8 The Norse in Scotland: Assembly and New Ancestors
  • 9 Assemblies in the Longue Durée
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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