Children of Ash and Elm
Autor Neil Priceen Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 sep 2022
'As brilliant a history of the Vikings as one could possibly hope to read' Tom Holland
The '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 the Viking 'armies' - not least in England.
Especially, Neil Price takes us inside the Norse mind and spirit-world, and across their borders of identity and gender, to reveal startlingly different Vikings to the barbarian marauders of stereotype. He cuts through centuries of received wisdom to try to see the Vikings as they saw themselves - descendants of the first human couple, the Children of Ash and Elm. Healso reminds us of the simultaneous familiarity and strangeness of the past, of how much we cannot know, alongside the discoveries that change the landscape of our understanding. This is an eye-opening and surprisingly moving book.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781541601116
ISBN-10: 1541601114
Pagini: 599
Ilustrații: 8 Maps; 1 Table; 26 B-W Illustrations; 16-page insert on text
Dimensiuni: 143 x 210 x 47 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Hachette Book Group
Colecția Basic Books
ISBN-10: 1541601114
Pagini: 599
Ilustrații: 8 Maps; 1 Table; 26 B-W Illustrations; 16-page insert on text
Dimensiuni: 143 x 210 x 47 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Hachette Book Group
Colecția Basic Books
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Notă biografică
Neil
Priceholds
the
Chair
of
Archaeology
at
Uppsala
University,
Sweden,
where
he
has
also
been
appointed
Distinguished
Professor
by
the
Swedish
Research
Council.
A
leading
expert
on
the
Viking
Age,
his
fieldwork,
teaching
and
research
have
taken
him
to
more
than
forty
countries.
Neil
is
a
Fellow
of
learned
academies
in
Britain
and
Scandinavia,
including
Sweden's
oldest,
the
Royal
Society
of
Sciences;
in
2017
it
awarded
him
the
Thuréus
Prize
for
his
lifetime
achievements
in
Viking
studies.
His
publications
have
appeared
in
sixteen
languages,
and
he
is
a
frequent
consultant
and
contributor
to
television
and
film.
Recenzii
Everybody
thinks
they
know
the
Vikings,
but
Neil
Price's
magical
book
casts
them
in
an
entirely
new
light
...Scholarly,
colourful
and
often
remarkably
funny,
this
is
history
at
its
very
best,
a
richly
decorated
window
on
to
a
very
strange
world.
This history takes us deep into the lives - and deaths - of the Vikings ... What surprised me aboutThe Children of Ash and Elmis the extent to which recent archaeological discovery is transforming our picture of the Vikings from the inside.Price, who has spent several decades in ancient cesspits and the remains of Norse workshops, is superbly qualified to understand the significance of what is being unearthed, analysed and dated, and conveys a sense of excitement about just how much is being learnt
a book that offers delight after delight ... lyrical, unnerving, specific, and passionately uncertain, all at once... Throughout this book are glorious collections of Viking facts that are technically known yet still resist our best attempts at interpretation ...Price has a talent for evoking the Vikings' physical surroundingsas they might have been -a gift for recreationthat's probably natural for an archaeologist accustomed to eking significance from the smallest bit of disturbed dirt ... To convey such a deep sense of scholarly indeterminacy, all while dazzling the reader with cinematic detail-this is, truly, a feat.
This is a comprehensive, lyrically told and personal account of the Viking Age, the product of more than thirty years of experience as a leading archaeologist and researcher.Many books assess the "Viking achievement".The Children of Ash and Elmexamines instead who the Vikings were, how they saw themselves and why they did what they did ...no other history of the Vikings is as vibrant or expands the scope of the Viking world to encompass not just landscapes, but mindscapes.
It is full of meticulous accounts of the specifics of early medieval Scandinavian daily life ...beautifully evocative, engaging and thought-provoking ... It is impossible not to admire the breadth and range of this book's discussion of Viking material culture.
Neil Price'sThe Children of Ash and Elmisan illuminating and insightful tour of the Viking era; his narrative is composed from his obvious expertise, and his utter passion. He loves this subject and he wants to invite the reader to share his enthusiasm ...Compelling, engaging, insightful and informative...we couldn't hope for a more entertaining or enlightening guide - Neil Price has given us an exceptional book, and it is one to be treasured.
Price is adept at bringing this cosmopolitan and brutal world to life, interweaving many complicated strands of history with his own experience in the field along with poetic meditations on a people and time long since passed.
a very human history of the period, one that is by turns illuminating, surprising and even moving ... much of the beauty of Price work is in its qualitative, sometimes subjective nature, even while it remains a meticulously researched, rigorous piece of scholarship.
This book is the closest thing I have found to a time machine. It brilliantly clears the fog of the past from the Viking era. Extremely well written...if you are seeking an accessible, yet definitive and up-to-date book on the Vikings, this is the one you want.
a thrilling read... His clear, engaging style introduces us to the Scandinavian communities of the eighth and ninth centuries, centered around the farmstead, before catapulting us overseas and outward into an expanding world where raiding and trading quickly boosted the wealth of individuals and the ambitions of the elites. ... The stereotype of the Viking that we know from history books and popular media is here dismantled and presented anew by Mr. Price in all its wonderful, terrifying complexity and ambiguity.
The question that this dark, brilliantly written and absorbing book asks is: who were these people and where did this violence come from?...The powerful and unsettling message of this book is that they never went home. These strange, vicious people are our forebears. They never went home.
as Neil Price shows in his colourful, revelatory new book, we are almost always looking at the Vikings the wrong way around. Price is one of the world's foremost experts on the Vikings and holds the chair of archaeology at Uppsala University ... He may know more about medieval Scandinavia than anyone else alive, and he aims to show us these fascinating people as they saw themselves, not as they were perceived by those on the sharp end of their robbery ...Thousands of books have been published about the Vikings - this is one of the very best.
This history takes us deep into the lives - and deaths - of the Vikings ... What surprised me aboutThe Children of Ash and Elmis the extent to which recent archaeological discovery is transforming our picture of the Vikings from the inside.Price, who has spent several decades in ancient cesspits and the remains of Norse workshops, is superbly qualified to understand the significance of what is being unearthed, analysed and dated, and conveys a sense of excitement about just how much is being learnt
a book that offers delight after delight ... lyrical, unnerving, specific, and passionately uncertain, all at once... Throughout this book are glorious collections of Viking facts that are technically known yet still resist our best attempts at interpretation ...Price has a talent for evoking the Vikings' physical surroundingsas they might have been -a gift for recreationthat's probably natural for an archaeologist accustomed to eking significance from the smallest bit of disturbed dirt ... To convey such a deep sense of scholarly indeterminacy, all while dazzling the reader with cinematic detail-this is, truly, a feat.
This is a comprehensive, lyrically told and personal account of the Viking Age, the product of more than thirty years of experience as a leading archaeologist and researcher.Many books assess the "Viking achievement".The Children of Ash and Elmexamines instead who the Vikings were, how they saw themselves and why they did what they did ...no other history of the Vikings is as vibrant or expands the scope of the Viking world to encompass not just landscapes, but mindscapes.
It is full of meticulous accounts of the specifics of early medieval Scandinavian daily life ...beautifully evocative, engaging and thought-provoking ... It is impossible not to admire the breadth and range of this book's discussion of Viking material culture.
Neil Price'sThe Children of Ash and Elmisan illuminating and insightful tour of the Viking era; his narrative is composed from his obvious expertise, and his utter passion. He loves this subject and he wants to invite the reader to share his enthusiasm ...Compelling, engaging, insightful and informative...we couldn't hope for a more entertaining or enlightening guide - Neil Price has given us an exceptional book, and it is one to be treasured.
Price is adept at bringing this cosmopolitan and brutal world to life, interweaving many complicated strands of history with his own experience in the field along with poetic meditations on a people and time long since passed.
a very human history of the period, one that is by turns illuminating, surprising and even moving ... much of the beauty of Price work is in its qualitative, sometimes subjective nature, even while it remains a meticulously researched, rigorous piece of scholarship.
This book is the closest thing I have found to a time machine. It brilliantly clears the fog of the past from the Viking era. Extremely well written...if you are seeking an accessible, yet definitive and up-to-date book on the Vikings, this is the one you want.
a thrilling read... His clear, engaging style introduces us to the Scandinavian communities of the eighth and ninth centuries, centered around the farmstead, before catapulting us overseas and outward into an expanding world where raiding and trading quickly boosted the wealth of individuals and the ambitions of the elites. ... The stereotype of the Viking that we know from history books and popular media is here dismantled and presented anew by Mr. Price in all its wonderful, terrifying complexity and ambiguity.
The question that this dark, brilliantly written and absorbing book asks is: who were these people and where did this violence come from?...The powerful and unsettling message of this book is that they never went home. These strange, vicious people are our forebears. They never went home.
as Neil Price shows in his colourful, revelatory new book, we are almost always looking at the Vikings the wrong way around. Price is one of the world's foremost experts on the Vikings and holds the chair of archaeology at Uppsala University ... He may know more about medieval Scandinavia than anyone else alive, and he aims to show us these fascinating people as they saw themselves, not as they were perceived by those on the sharp end of their robbery ...Thousands of books have been published about the Vikings - this is one of the very best.