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St Birgitta of Sweden
Author:
Bridget Morris
Published:
1999
Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
St Birgitta of Sweden was one of the most charismatic figures in the late medieval mystical tradition. In Rome she succeeded in commanding prelates and popes, and throughout the courts of Europe she engaged in political secular intrigues; she married and produced eight children, yet became the only woman in the fourteenth century to be canonised; and in an age where new monastic foundations were proscribed, she founded an order of her own devising, primarily for women. hardback
ISBN 978-0-851-15727-6
Price:
£40.00
Swein Forkbeard's Invasions and the Danish Conquest of England, 991-1017
Author:
Ian Howard
Published:
2003
Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
From the battle of Maldon in 991 during the reign of Aethelred (the Unready), England was invaded by Scandinavian armies of increasing size and ferocity. Swein Forkbeard, king of Denmark, played a significant part in these invasions, which culminated in the domination of England and the long reign of his son, Cnut. hardback
ISBN 978-0-851-15928-7
Price:
£45.00
Swords of the Viking Age
Author:
Ian Peirce
Published:
2004
Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
This new work fills a vacuum in English language studies of the swords made and used in northern Europe during the Viking Age, from the mid-eighth through to the mid-eleventh century. Given the mission of seeking out the best representative examples of the broad diversity of sword types surviving from this time, Ian Peirce, lecturer and museum consultant, travelled to museums of northern Europe and, from the hundreds of swords he handled, selected some sixty examples. hardback
ISBN 978-0-851-15914-0
Price:
£50.00
Swords of the Viking Age
Author:
Ian Peirce
Published:
2007
Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
This new work fills a gap in the literature in English on the swords made and used in northern Europe during the Viking age, between the mid eighth and the mid eleventh centuries. Ewart Oakeshott outlines the significance and diversity of these ancient heirlooms; co-author Ian Peirce, who handled hundreds of swords in his research for this book in museums across northern Europe, selects and describes sixty of the finest representative weapons. paperback
ISBN 978-1-843-83089-4
Price:
£25.00
Women in the Viking Age
Author:
Judith Jesch
Published:
2005
Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Well-illustrated, closely argued and fascinating. GUARDIAN This is the first book-length study in English to investigate what women did in the Viking age, both at home in Scandinavia and in the Viking colonies from Greenland to Russia. Evidence for their lives is fragmentary, but Judith Jesch assembles the clues provided by archaeology, runic inscriptions, place names and personal names, foreign historical records and Old Norse literature and mythology. paperback
ISBN 978-0-851-15360-5
Price:
£17.99
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