Age of Wolf and Wind
Voyages through the Viking World
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 26 February 2024
- ISBN 9780190916060
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages520 pages
- Size 226x168x58 mm
- Weight 885 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 50 b&w halftones + 15 b&w line drawings 482
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Short description:
Age of Wolf and Wind provides a new introduction to the Viking Age that capitalizes on recent archaeological discoveries and breakthroughs in the application of analytical techniques from the natural sciences. Author Davide Zori, an interdisciplinary archaeologist with fieldwork experience across the Viking world, delves into key questions of the Viking Age, such as the motivations of Scandinavians to board open wooden ships to raid England and cross the North Atlantic in search of new worlds beyond Europe. Each chapter offers new conclusions about the Vikings--their views on death, their raiding tactics, their laving feasts, their forging of powerful medieval states--by juxtaposing evidence from written texts, archaeology, and new scientific analyses.
MoreLong description:
The Vikings continue to fascinate us because their compelling stories connect with universal human desires for exploration and adventure. In Age of Wolf and Wind: Voyages through the Viking World, author Davide Zori argues that recent advances in excavation and archaeological science, coupled with a re-evaluation of oral traditions and written sources, inspire the telling of new and engaging stories that further our understanding of the Viking Age. Drawing upon his fieldwork experience across the Viking world, he proposes that the best method for weaving together these narratives is a balanced, interdisciplinary approach that integrates history, archaeology, and new scientific techniques.
The book delves into key questions of the Viking Age, such as the motivations of Scandinavians to board open wooden ships to raid England or cross the North Atlantic in search of new worlds beyond Europe. Each chapter offers new conclusions about the Vikings--their views on death, their raiding tactics, their lavish feasts, their forging of powerful medieval states, and many others. In each case, Zori brings together written sources, archaeology, and the natural sciences. The dialogues he creates between these three separate data sets result in an entanglement of confirmation (texts, archaeology, and science affirming the same story), contradiction (texts, archaeology, and science telling incompatible stories) and complementarity (texts, archaeology, and science contributing mutually enriching stories). This optimistic yet critical treatment of the sources allows for a holistic picture of the Viking Age to emerge, one that is accessible to a general audience but simultaneously offers new insights into current key issues of scholarly debate.
Movement, often of a dangerous and adventurous nature, defines the Viking achievement. The Viking world as we know it was not a contiguous territory or empire, but a far more complex and fleeting phenomenon. Social, cultural and economic networks came together, linking eastern and western Europe, and stretching as far as Central Asia and the Americas. In Davide Zori's new book, the reader will find a thorough, up-to-date and research-informed account of a vivid age of conquest of both land and sea.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
A Note on Spelling and Pronunciation
1 Introduction: Viking Voyages through History and Archaeology
2 Raiding, Conquering, and Settling Down in Britain: Viking Ways
3 From Subsistence Economy to Political Order: Viking Feasts
4 From Paganism to Christianization: Viking Death and Burial
5 Political Centralization in Denmark: The Viking State
6 Into Marginal North Atlantic Environments: Viking Colonization of Iceland
7 Stories of V--nland: The End of the Viking Horizon
8 Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
