From the Vikings to the Normans

by Wendy Davies

Overview

This readable and authoritative volume covers the history of the British Isles from the Vikings to the Norman conquest. Seven chapters contributed by an international team of leading historians cover key themes of this period such as monarchies and other political structures, economic developments, the christianization of society, and relationships between Britain, Ireland, and the Mediterranean civilizations to the south.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198700517
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/28/2003
Series:	Short Oxford History of the British Isles
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	8.64(w) x 5.44(h) x 0.61(d)

About the Author

Wendy Davies is Pro-Provost, European Affairs, and Professor of History at University College London. She has written on early Welsh, Breton, Irish, English and European history and archaeology. She is currently directing, with James Graham-Campbell, the Celtic Inscribed Stones Project (CISP), an interdisciplinary project to establish a database of all known early medieval Celtic inscribed stones. Professor Davies has recently begun to work on rural communities in northern Spain in the tenth century: she is currently writing on sale, price and valuation in Galicia and Castile-León and is developing a new field project with colleagues in the Medieval Department of the Consejo Superior Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid.

Table of Contents

List of IllustrationsList of MapsList of ContributorsIntroduction, Wendy Davies1. Monarchy, Hegemony and Anarchy, Pauline Stafford2. Vikings, Barbara Crawford3. Exchange, Trade and Urbanization, David Griffiths4. Lords and Labour, Robin Fleming5. The Christianization of Society, Huw Pryce6. Writing, Daibhi Croinin7. Britain, Ireland and the World to the South, John GillinghamConclusion, Wendy DaviesFurther ReadingChronologyGlossaryGenealogyMapsIndex

Editorial Reviews

"This is an admirable collection of papers raising important themes and offering a number of challenges to accepted orthodoxies about the nature and development of the separate areas of early medieval Britain."—Advance praise from an academic in the Department of History, University of Sheffield

"With so distinguished a team of contributors, this book cannot...fail to be a success."—Advance praise from an academic at the University of Glasgow

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