The Viking World
The Viking World, edited by Stefan Brink with Neil Price, looks like being a very significant contribution to the field. It’s a comprehensive guide to all aspects of Viking-Age history and culture with contributions from many of the field’s leading experts. (Click here for full table of contents.) The publisher’s blurb describes it as follows:
Filling a gap in the literature for an academically oriented volume on the Viking period, this unique book is a one-stop authoritative introduction to all the latest research in the field.
Bringing together today’s leading scholars, both established seniors and younger, cutting-edge academics, Stefan Brink, in collaboration with Neil Price, have constructed the first single work to gather innovative research from a spectrum of disciplines (including archaeology, history, philology, comparative religion, numismatics and cultural geography) to create the most comprehensive Viking Age book of its kind ever attempted.
Consisting of longer articles providing overviews of important themes, supported by shorter papers focusing on material or sites of particular interest, this comprehensive volume covers such wide-ranging topics as social institutions, spatial issues, the Viking Age economy, warfare, beliefs, language, voyages, and links with medieval and Christian Europe.
Including extensive illustration, maps and references, this book is essential to the collection of any student or specialist in the Viking period or Scandinavian history.
Selected Contents
Part 1: Viking Age Scandinavia People, Society and Social Institutions Living Space Technology and Trade Warfare and Weaponry Pre-Christian Religion and Belief Language, Literature and Art Part 2: The Viking Expansion The British Isles Continental Europe and the Mediterranean The Baltic Russia and the East The North Atlantic Part 3: Scandinavia enters the European stage The coming of Christianity The Development of Nation States
It’s on the expensive side at £135, and I hope that a paperback might be planned, if Routledge really envisages it as a source book that will be accessible to students. In the meantime, I’m sure it would be well worth recommending to your local library.
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I have just received the book and read a couple of chapters. What I’ve seen is oustanding. I think that this book gives a complete and really detailed overview of the vikings or nordic people, covering a surprising range of topics.
The only negative point is the price, which I find very high.