Vikings: Life and Legend

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Vikings: Life and Legend
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Gareth Williams
By (author) Peter Pentz
By (author) Matthias Wemhoff
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:288
Dimensions(mm): Height 289,Width 245
Category/GenreMedieval European archaeology
ISBN/Barcode 9780714123370
ClassificationsDewey:948.022
Audience
General
Illustrations With over 320 colour illustrations

Publishing Details

Publisher British Museum Press
Imprint British Museum Press
Publication Date 10 February 2014
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

In the ninth and tenth centuries, the Vikings created an unrivalled cultural network that spanned four continents. Adventurers, farmers, traders, conquerors and sailors, the Vikings were both peaceful and fierce, fighting or bargaining their way through as far as Constantinople in the East, North America and Greenland in the North, the British Isles in the West as well as into the Mediterranean. Throughout their existence, the Vikings encountered a remarkable diversity of peoples and inhabited an expansive and changing world. This beautifully illustrated book explores the core period of the Viking Age from a global perspective, examining how the Vikings drew influences from Christian Europe and the Islamic World and how they created a lasting historical impact on our world today. Highlighting an extraordinary range of objects and featuring new discoveries by archaeologists and metal-detector users, the cultural connections between Europe, Byzantium and the Middle East are explored in absorbing detail. Vikings: life and legend is published to complement a major exhibition developed jointly by the British Museum, the National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen and the Museum for Prehistory and Early History, Berlin.