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  • The Hoarding Vikings

    by Gitte T. Ingvardson ...
    Series series Routledge Archaeologies of the Viking World
    This book investigates whether Viking hoards leave behind traces of the people who deposited them and the reasons for doing so. The focus is on the Viking-Age hoards of the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea, a unique find group in both quantity and quality.The large number of excavated Bornholm hoards enable the inclusion of the archaeological context on an unpreceded scale. This book ... Read more

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  • Divina Moneta

    Coins in Religion and Ritual

    Edited by Nanouschka Myrberg Burström, Gitte Tarnow Ingvardson ...
    Series series Religion and Money in the Middle Ages
    This edited collection analyses the phenomenon of coin use for religious and ritual purposes in different cultures and across different periods of time. It proposes an engagement with the theory and interpretation of the ‘material turn’ with numismatic evidence, and an evidence-based series of discussions to offer a fuller, richer and fresh account of coin use in ritual contexts. No extensive ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • Children of Ash and Elm

    A History of the Vikings

    by Neil Price ...
    From a distinguished archaeologist, the definitive history of the Vikings—from arts and culture to politics and cosmology.**“A thrilling read.” —**Wall Street JournalThe Viking Age saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the world. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they ranged from eastern North America to the Asian steppe. But for centuries, the Vikings have ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Early European Castles

    Aristocracy and Authority, AD 800-1200

    by O.H. (Oliver) Creighton ...
    Series series Debates in Archaeology
    Medieval castles were, alongside the great cathedrals, the most recognisable buildings of the medieval world. Closely associated with concepts of justice, lordship and authority as well as military might, castles came to encapsulate the period's very essence.Looking at above and below-ground evidence and examining a wide variety of sites - from towering donjons to earth and timber castles - in ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Invention of News

    How the World Came to Know About Itself

    by Andrew Pettegree ...
    "A fascinating account of the gathering and dissemination of news from the end of the Middle Ages to the French Revolution" and the rise of the newspaper (Glenn Altschuler, The Huffington Post).Long before the invention of printing, let alone the daily newspaper, people wanted to stay informed. In the pre-industrial era, news was mostly shared through gossip, sermons, and proclamations. The age of ... Read more

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  • The Fall of Rome:And the End of Civilization

    And the End of Civilization

    by Bryan Ward-Perkins ...
    Why did Rome fall?Vicious barbarian invasions during the fifth century resulted in the cataclysmic end of the world's most powerful civilization, and a 'dark age' for its conquered peoples. Or did it? The dominant view of this period today is that the 'fall of Rome' was a largely peaceful transition to Germanic rule, and the start of a positive cultural transformation.Bryan Ward-Perkins encourages ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Medieval Europe

    by Chris Wickham ...
    A spirited history of the changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages: "A dazzling race through a complex millennium."— Publishers WeeklyThe millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period—one not easily chronicled within the scope of a few hundred pages. Yet distinguished historian Chris ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Tulipomania

    The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused

    by Mike Dash ...
    A vivid narration of the history of the tulip, from its origins on the barren, windswept steppes of central Asia to its place of honor in the lush imperial gardens of Constantinople, to its starring moment as the most coveted—and beautiful—commodity in Europe.In the 1630s, visitors to the prosperous trading cities of the Netherlands couldn't help but notice that thousands of normally sober, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered

    The Dark Ages Reconsidered

    by Peter S. Wells ...
    A rich and surprising look at the robust European culture that thrived after the collapse of Rome.The barbarians who destroyed the glory that was Rome demolished civilization along with it, and for the next four centuries the peasants and artisans of Europe barely held on. Random violence, mass migration, disease, and starvation were the only ways of life. This is the picture of the Dark Ages that ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • Social History of Knowledge

    From Gutenberg to Diderot

    by Peter Burke ...
    In this book Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach to examine the changes in the organization of knowledge in Europe from the invention of printing to the publication of the French Encyclopédie.The book opens with an assessment of different sociologies of knowledge from Mannheim to Foucault and beyond, and goes on to discuss intellectuals as a social group and the social institutions ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • The Middle Ages

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Miri Rubin ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Middle Ages is a term coined around 1450 to describe a thousand years of European History. In this Very Short Introduction, Miri Rubin provides an exploration of the variety, change, dynamism, and sheer complexity that the period covers. From the provinces of the Roman Empire, which became Barbarian kingdoms after c.450-650, to the northern and eastern regions that became increasingly ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • My European Family

    The First 54,000 Years

    by Karin Bojs ...
    Translated by Fiona Graham ...
    The story of Europe and its people, told through its genetic legacy.'An extraordinary book ... part travel narrative, part family history, part scientific study.' - Financial TimesKarin Bojs grew up in a small, broken family. At her mother's funeral she felt this more keenly than ever. As a science journalist she was eager to learn more about herself, her family and the interconnectedness of ... Read more

    $11.59 USD