The Cambridge History of Scandinavia

The Cambridge History of Scandinavia
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 942
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ISBN-10 : 0521472997
ISBN-13 : 9780521472999
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge History of Scandinavia by : Knut Helle

Download or read book The Cambridge History of Scandinavia written by Knut Helle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-04 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a comprehensive exposition of both the prehistory and medieval history of the whole of Scandinavia. The first part of the volume surveys the prehistoric and historic Scandinavian landscape and its natural resources, and tells how man took possession of this landscape, adapting culturally to changing natural conditions and developing various types of community throughout the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages. The rest - and most substantial part of the volume - deals with the history of Scandinavia from the Viking Age to the end of the Scandinavian Middle Ages (c. 1520). The external Viking expansion opened Scandinavia to European influence to a hitherto unknown degree. A Christian church organisation was established, the first towns came into being, and the unification of the three medieval kingdoms of Scandinavia began, coinciding with the formation of the unique Icelandic 'Free State'.

Plain Promise

Plain Promise
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0718014499
ISBN-13 : 9780718014490
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Book Synopsis Plain Promise by : Beth Wiseman

Download or read book Plain Promise written by Beth Wiseman and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sadie Fisher wonders if she'll ever find true love again after the death of her husband. When wealthy Englischer Kade Saunders rents her guest cottage for a month, Sadie's world is turned upside-down. Kade has a five-year old autistic son who is unexpectedly left in his permanent care. As Sadie's feelings for the child grow, so do her feelings for Kade. But is this man suitable for anything more than friendship?

Alice

Alice
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Publisher : Music Sales
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0825619424
ISBN-13 : 9780825619427
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Book Synopsis Alice by : Tom Waits

Download or read book Alice written by Tom Waits and published by Music Sales. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Music Sales America). A tender song-cycle loosely based on a stage production about Alice Liddell, the young girl who inspired Lewis Carroll's Alice books. Arranged for piano, voice and guitar, with lyric sheets and artwork. Includes: Alice * Table Top Joe * Watch Her Disappear * I'm Still Here * and more.

The Cambridge History of Scandinavia: Volume 2, 1520–1870

The Cambridge History of Scandinavia: Volume 2, 1520–1870
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ISBN-10 : 9781316654040
ISBN-13 : 1316654044
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge History of Scandinavia: Volume 2, 1520–1870 by : E. I. Kouri

Download or read book The Cambridge History of Scandinavia: Volume 2, 1520–1870 written by E. I. Kouri and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Scandinavia provides a comprehensive and authoritative account of the Scandinavian countries from the close of the Middle Ages through to the formation of the nation states in the mid-nineteenth century. Beginning in 1520, the opening chapters of the volume discuss the reformation of the Nordic states and the enormous impact this had on the social structures, cultural identities and traditions of individual countries. With contributions from 38 leading historians, the book charts the major developments that unfolded within this crucial period of Scandinavian history. Chapters address topics such as material growth and the centralisation of power in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as well as the evolution of trade, foreign policy and client states in the eighteenth century. Volume 2 concludes by discussing the new economic and social orders of the nineteenth century in connection with the emergence of the nation states.

Medieval History Writing and Crusading Ideology

Medieval History Writing and Crusading Ideology
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Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015064697314
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Book Synopsis Medieval History Writing and Crusading Ideology by : Tuomas M. S. Lehtonen

Download or read book Medieval History Writing and Crusading Ideology written by Tuomas M. S. Lehtonen and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how the crusading ideology was formulated in medieval historiography and how the crusading movement affected Christianity and the world beyond. The second main theme is the spread of the crusading movement to Northern Europe, especially Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea area. Northerners not only participated in the crusades in the Holy Land, but also learned and were inspired to create and take part in a new crusading movement within the Baltic Sea region itself. The relationship between the crusades to Jerusalem and those in the North must be of fundamental importance to understanding the dynamics that created history, both locally and in a general European context, but this relation itself has seldom been the object of thoroughgoing research; on the contrary, the considerable scholarship on both the North and the South has been pursued in isolation. Divided into three parts, this volume opens with the different forms of and reactions to the crusading ideology. The importance of ideology as a driving motivation for the crusaders has again been recognised in international studies since the 1970s, and its impact is also now felt in Scandinavian research environments. The second part moves on to examine the crusading ideology and its impact upon society in a broader context through its relation to violence, its portrayal of the enemies, and its representations in the policy and construction of the Danish crown and royal mythology. The Northern Crusades in the Baltic Sea region are discussed in the third part as seen through contemporary sources and modern historical writing. This also includes dealing with some of the impacts of the Crusades in Russia and even farther east in Mongolia. The essays in this section show how the general idea of crusading was applied to the Northern areas and frequently resembles in its details the Mediterranean crusades, as well as demonstrate how Scandinavian scholars have often neglected this aspect in modern history writing.

The Northern Crusades

The Northern Crusades
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Total Pages : 273
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ISBN-10 : 0333263952
ISBN-13 : 9780333263952
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Book Synopsis The Northern Crusades by : Eric Christiansen

Download or read book The Northern Crusades written by Eric Christiansen and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades

The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 478
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ISBN-10 : 0192854283
ISBN-13 : 9780192854285
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Book Synopsis The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades by : Jonathan Riley-Smith

Download or read book The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades written by Jonathan Riley-Smith and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a team of leading scholars, this richly illustrated book, with over 200 colour and black and white pictures, presents an authoritative and comprehensive history of the Crusades from the preaching of the First Crusade in 1095 to the legacy of crusading ideas and imagery today.