Viking World

<p>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.</p><p>Bringing together today’s leading scholars both established seniors and younger cutting-edge academics Stefan Brink and 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. </p><p>Consisting of longer articles providing overviews of important themes supported by shorter papers focusing on material 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.</p><p>This original work specifically oriented towards a university audience and the educated public will have a self-evident place as an undergraduate course book and will be a standard work of reference for all those in the field.</p>