Neil Price

Una historia brillante de los vikingos y su mundo. La época vikinga fue testigo de una expansión sin precedentes de los pueblos escandinavos. Comerciantes, piratas, exploradores y colonizadores viki

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR As brilliant a history of the Vikings as one could possibly hope to read Tom HollandThe Viking Age is traditionally held to begin in June 793 when Scandinavian raiders attacked the monastery of Lindisfarne in Northumbria and to end in September 1066 when King Harald Hardrada of Norway died leading the charge against the English line at the Battle of Stamford Bridge This book the most wide ranging and comprehensive assessment of the current state of our knowledge takes a refreshingly different view It shows that the Viking expansion began generations before the Lindisfarne raid and traces Scandinavian history back centuries further to see how these people came to be who they were The narrative ranges across the whole of the Viking diaspora from Vinland on the eastern American seaboard to Constantinople and Uzbekistan with contacts as far away as China Based on the latest archaeology it explores the complex origins of the Viking phenomenon and traces the seismic shifts in Scandinavian society that resulted from an economy geared to maritime war Some of its most striking discoveries include the central role of slavery in Viking life and trade and the previously unsuspected pirate communities and family migrations that were part of

Una historia brillante de los vikingos y su mundo. La época vikinga fue testigo de una expansión sin precedentes de los pueblos escandinavos. Comerciantes, piratas, exploradores y colonizadores vikingos viajaron desde America del Norte hasta las estepas asiaticas y navegaron por todos los mares. Pero, durante siglos, estos pueblos se nos han presentado a traves de una optica distorsionada para satisfacer los gustos de cronistas medievales, dramaturgos isabelinos, potencias imperialistas y muchos otros. En Vikingos: la historia definitiva de los pueblos del norte, el prestigioso historiador Neil Price presenta por primera vez un retrato fidedigno de los vikingos basado en las ultimas investigaciones y descubrimientos arqueologicos. En un epico recorrido que abarca desde la caida del Imperio romano al siglo xii, Price rastrea el origen de los vikingos, nos descubre su cultura y cosmologia, y explica que los impulso a lanzarse a los saqueos que los hicieron temidos en toda Europa. Price nos muestra a los vikingos tal y como ellos mismos se veian. En sus paginas cobra vida un pueblo totalmente distinto a nosotros, glorioso pero terrible, nacido del invierno, la guerra y el comercio, sangriento a la vez que exquisito. Vikingos es una historia monumental sobre uno de los periodos mas fascinantes de la historia qu...

Una historia brillante de los vikingos y su mundo. La época vikinga fue testigo de una expansión sin precedentes de los pueblos escandinavos. Comerciantes, piratas, exploradores y colonizadores vik

Pendant près de trois siècles, des peuples venus de Scandinavie ont profondément bouleversé les régions du Nord, jusqu’aux rivages de l’Amérique et aux steppes asiatiques. Au-delà des actes réels de

Pendant près de trois siècles, des peuples venus de Scandinavie ont profondément bouleversé les régions du Nord, jusqu’aux rivages de l’Amérique et aux steppes asiatiques. Au-delà des actes réels de

Conheça a verdadeira história por detrás da lenda dos VikingsNa Era Viking – entre os séculos VII e XI – assistimos a uma expansão sem precedentes dos povos escandinavos pelo resto do mundo. Como com

Who do we think of when we think about the Vikings? Most of us are familiar with the seafaring marauders who raided, traded and settled the coasts of Europe between the eighth and eleventh centuries. In fact, those warriors made up only a small minority among a diverse people who had many roles and callings.In this eye-opening and often moving book, Neil Price takes us on a journey across the Viking world, revealing the complex, varied and richly textured lives of those who inhabited it through the intimate context of their burials. Traversing a vast Scandinavian diaspora that stretched from the eastern Steppe all the way to Newfoundland, we meet townsfolk and farmers, the free and the enslaved, immigrants and diplomats, followers of many gods and the worshippers of one, sea-kings, shamans, sorceresses, and of course the ferocious pirates who gave the vikingar their name.Unexpected encounters along the way challenge received wisdom about Norse culture, spiritual practices and politics, showing how they transformed their times and in doing so were changed themselves. How did a woman of Persian ancestry come to be interred in the richest Viking grave ever found? What do an arctic hunter and a Sami nomad tell us about a fast-changing societys notions of identity and belonging? How did these individuals see themselves, and what were their attitudes towards the elderly, infirm and children in their midst?Drawing on the latest archaeological research and scientific analysis, The Sea-King and the Sorceress brings us closer to understanding the lives and times of the Vikings. The era that bears their name will never seem so simple again.

The definitive history of the Vikingsfrom arts and culture to politics and cosmologyby a distinguished archaeologist with decades of expertise The Viking Agefrom 750 to 1050saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the wider world. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they ranged from eastern North America to the Asian steppe. But for centuries, the Vikings have been seen through the eyes of others, distorted to suit the tastes of medieval clerics and Elizabethan playwrights, Victorian imperialists, Nazis, and more. None of these appropriations capture the real Vikings, or the richness and sophistication of their culture. Based on the latest archaeological and textual evidence, Children of Ash and Elm tells the story of the Vikings on their own terms: their politics, their cosmology and religion, their material world. Known today for a stereotype of maritime violence, the Vikings exported new ideas, technologies, beliefs, and practices to the lands they discovered and the peoples they encountered, and in the process were themselves changed. From Eirik Bloodaxe, who fought his way to a kingdom, to Gudrid Thorbjarnardottir, the most traveled woman in the world, Children of Ash and Elm is the definitive history of the Vikings and their time.