Forgotten Vikings: New Approaches to the Viking Age
By Alex Harvey
Amberley Publishing
ISBN: 978 1 3981 2209 3
This book sets out to provide a sweeping overview of the Viking Age, covering Norse history from the sixth to the fifteenth centuries. Unlike many similar works, it reaches well beyond Scandinavia and England, incorporating a wide geographical scope and drawing extensively on archaeological evidence.
Excerpt:
In the footsteps of giants, Forgotten Vikings aims to provide a chronological narrative starting in 536 and ending somewhere in Greenland a thousand years later. This is the story not just of ‘the Viking Age’ between 793-1066 but also the period before and after.
Who is this book for?
As an introduction to the Vikings and Norse society, this book stands out for its broad scope and thorough engagement with existing scholarship. Even seasoned historians will find it valuable, particularly for keeping up with the latest archaeological research.
“Just as it’s churlish and incurious for readers to ask the kind of “Do we need another?” question that attends the whole subject of Vikings, it’s likewise rude and lazy for authors to write books that provoke that kind of question. Luckily, through his extensive research and lively prose style, Harvey avoids such a question. His wide-ranging portraits of Vikings in non-combat roles do indeed expand the standard hewing-and-hacking concept of horn-helmeted warriors, and he’s also excellent at finding Vikings far, far afield of their native fjords or the English valleys they soaked in blood, always grounding these exotic Vikings in both solid research and frequent calls to his fellow historians.” ~ review by Steve Donoghue in Open Letters Monthly
The Author
Alex Harvey is a historian and Curatorial Assistant at the York Museums Trust. He writes that his aim is to help in the “dissemination of complex academia into the mainstream zeitgeist” (which is a lot like ourselves). You can follow Alex on BlueSky.
Going to pin this (my first ever academic article) to my profile for the foreseeable so it is easily readable for all those who wish to know about kings, conflict, and crossing points of the seventh century marshes Isle of Axholme!
Forgotten Vikings: New Approaches to the Viking Age
By Alex Harvey
Amberley Publishing
ISBN: 978 1 3981 2209 3
This book sets out to provide a sweeping overview of the Viking Age, covering Norse history from the sixth to the fifteenth centuries. Unlike many similar works, it reaches well beyond Scandinavia and England, incorporating a wide geographical scope and drawing extensively on archaeological evidence.
Excerpt:
In the footsteps of giants, Forgotten Vikings aims to provide a chronological narrative starting in 536 and ending somewhere in Greenland a thousand years later. This is the story not just of ‘the Viking Age’ between 793-1066 but also the period before and after.
Who is this book for?
As an introduction to the Vikings and Norse society, this book stands out for its broad scope and thorough engagement with existing scholarship. Even seasoned historians will find it valuable, particularly for keeping up with the latest archaeological research.
“Just as it’s churlish and incurious for readers to ask the kind of “Do we need another?” question that attends the whole subject of Vikings, it’s likewise rude and lazy for authors to write books that provoke that kind of question. Luckily, through his extensive research and lively prose style, Harvey avoids such a question. His wide-ranging portraits of Vikings in non-combat roles do indeed expand the standard hewing-and-hacking concept of horn-helmeted warriors, and he’s also excellent at finding Vikings far, far afield of their native fjords or the English valleys they soaked in blood, always grounding these exotic Vikings in both solid research and frequent calls to his fellow historians.” ~ review by Steve Donoghue in Open Letters Monthly
The Author
Alex Harvey is a historian and Curatorial Assistant at the York Museums Trust. He writes that his aim is to help in the “dissemination of complex academia into the mainstream zeitgeist” (which is a lot like ourselves). You can follow Alex on BlueSky.
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