Rulership in 1st to 14th century Scandinavia: Royal graves and sites at Avaldsnes and beyond

book: Rulership in 1st to 14th century Scandinavia

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Rulership in 1st to 14th century Scandinavia

Royal graves and sites at Avaldsnes and beyond

Herausgegeben von: Dagfinn Skre

Band 114 der Reihe Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde

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This book seeks to revitalise the somewhat stagnant scholarly debate on Germanic rulership in the first millennium AD. A series of comprehensive chapters combines literary evidence on Scandinavia’s polities, kings, and other rulers with archaeological, documentary, toponymical, and linguistic evidence. The picture that emerges is one of surprisingly stable rulership institutions, sites, and myths, while control of them was contested between individuals, dynasties, and polities. While in the early centuries, Scandinavia was integrated in Germanic Europe, profound societal and cultural changes in 6th-century Scandinavia and the Christianisation of Continental and English kingdoms set northern kingship on a different path. The pagan heroic warrior ethos, essential to kingship, was developed and refined; only to recur overseas embodied in 9th–10th-century Vikings. Three chapters on a hitherto unknown masonry royal manor at Avaldsnes in western Norway, excavated 2017, concludes this volume with discussions of the late-medieval peak of Norwegian kingship and it’s eventual downfall in the late 14th century. This book’s discussions and results are relevant to all scholars and students of 1st-millenium Germanic kingship, polities, and societies.

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Dagfinn Skre, University of Oslo, Norway.

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Frontmatter Open Access PDF downloaden	I
Preface Open Access PDF downloaden	V
Contents Open Access PDF downloaden	IX
Abbreviations Open Access PDF downloaden	XV
Section A: The West-Scandinavian Coast
1. The History of the Norvegr 2000 BC–1000 AD Einar Østmo Open Access PDF downloaden	3
2. Intraregional Diversity. Approaching Changes in Political Topographies in South-western Norway through Burials with Brooches, AD 200–1000 Mari Arentz Østmo Open Access PDF downloaden	67
Section B: Rulership in First-Millennium Scandinavia
3. Rulership and Ruler’s Sites in 1st–10th-century Scandinavia Dagfinn Skre Open Access PDF downloaden	193
4. Between Tribe and Kingdom – People, Land, and Law in Scandza AD 500–1350 Frode Iversen Open Access PDF downloaden	245
5. The Ship Graves on Kormt – and Beyond Jan Bill Open Access PDF downloaden	305
Section C: The High-Medieval Royal Manor
6. The High-Medieval Royal Manor Complex Anette Sand-Eriksen und Erlend Nordlie Open Access PDF downloaden	395
7. The Royal Edifice at Avaldsnes: A Palatium for the King or a Residence for his Canons? Alf Tore Hommedal Open Access PDF downloaden	465
8. Avaldsnes’ Position in Norway in the 14th Century Erik Opsahl Open Access PDF downloaden	517

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Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: De Gruyter
Copyrightjahr: 2020
Zielgruppe: Scholars of Nordic history, the Viking Age, and of Scandinavian Studies.
Seiten
- Frontmatter: 14
- Inhalt: 545
Abbildungen
- Abbildungen: 24
- Farbige Abbildungen: 130
- Tabellen: 14
- Farbige Tabellen: 3
Schlagworte: Germanisch; Skandinavien; Wikinger; Herrschaft

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Veröffentlicht: 16. Dezember 2019
ISBN: 9783110421101

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Veröffentlicht: 16. Dezember 2019
ISBN: 9783110425796