Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power

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Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power
by Jesse L. Byock
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Iceland

The history of medieval Europe is incomplete if it does not take Iceland into account. Jesse Byock's reassessment of medieval Iceland uses all the available sources--the medieval Icelanders' historical writings, extensive saga literature, and intricate laws--to explore the way Iceland's social order functioned.

• Rank: #216951 in Books
• Published on: 1990-02-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.27" h x .63" w x 5.51" l, .69 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 276 pages

Women in the Viking Age

Women in the Viking Age
by Judith Jesch
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Iceland

This is the first book-length study in English to investigate what women did in the Viking age, both at home in Scandinavia and in the Viking colonies from Greenland to Russia. Evidence for their lives is fragmentary, but Judith Jesch assembles the clues provided by archaeology, runic inscriptions, place names and personal names, foreign historical records and Old Norse literature and mythology. These sources illuminate different aspects of women's lives in the Viking age, on the farms and in the trading centres of Scandinavia, abroad on Viking expeditions, and as settlers in places such as Iceland and the British Isles. Women in the Viking Age explores anunfamiliar aspect of medieval history and offers a new perspective on Viking society, very different from the traditional picture of a violent and male-dominated world.

• Rank: #461918 in Books
• Published on: 2005-02-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.21" h x .51" w x 6.14" l, .78 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 248 pages

• ISBN13: 9780851153605
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Viking Age Iceland (Penguin History)

Viking Age Iceland (Penguin History)
by Jesse L. Byock
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The popular image of the Viking Age is of warlords and marauding bands pillaging their way along the shores of Northern Europe. In this fascinating history, Jesse Byock shows that Norse society in Iceland was actually an independent one-almost a republican Free State, without warlords or kings. Combining history with anthropology and archaeology, this remarkable study serves as a valuable companion to the Icelandic sagas, exploring all aspects of Viking Age life: feasting, farming, the power of chieftains and the church, marriage, and the role of women. With masterful interpretations of the blood feuds and the sagas, Byock reveals how the law courts favored compromise over violence, and how the society grappled with proto-democratic tendencies. A work with broad social and historical implications for our modern institutions, Byock's history will alter long-held perceptions of the Viking Age.

• Rank: #154118 in Books
• Published on: 2001-09-01
• Released on: 2001-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.80" h x .83" w x 5.08" l, .73 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power

Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas, and Power
by Jesse L. Byock
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Iceland

The history of medieval Europe is incomplete if it does not take Iceland into account. Jesse Byock's reassessment of medieval Iceland uses all the available sources--the medieval Icelanders' historical writings, extensive saga literature, and intricate laws--to explore the way Iceland's social order functioned.

• Rank: #560731 in Books
• Published on: 1990-02-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.27" h x .59" w x 5.51" l, .69 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 276 pages