Viking law and order : places and rituals of assembly in the medieval north /
Using archaeological evidence, written sources and place-names, this text provides a comprehensive analysis of the Viking legal system and assembly sites, showing that this formed an integral part of Norse culture and identity, to the extent that the assembly institution was brought to all Norse set...
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2018.
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| Online toegang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1pwt2s7 |
Inhoudsopgave:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1 Assembly Research: Past and Present
- 2 Early Germanic and Norse Assembly Organisations
- 3 Introducing the Assembly Sites of Scandinavia
- 4 Elite Rituals at Scandinavian Assemblies
- 5 Assembly Sites in Scandinavia: Activities and Rituals of the Community
- 6 Centralisation of Power: Christianity and Urbanisation
- 7 The Norse in the North Atlantic: Iceland, Faroe Islands and Greenland
- 8 The Norse in Scotland: Assembly and New Ancestors
- 9 Assemblies in the Longue Durée
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index