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Viking Age

Name: Viking Age
Brand: Alpha Edition
SKU: 9789354305924
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The Early History, Manners, And Customs Of The Ancestors Of The English Speaking Nations (Volume I)

Autor: Paul B. Du Chaillu

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Väzba: Brožovaná

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A nineteenth-century study that still crackles with curiosity, The Viking Age illuminates the lives...

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Autor

Paul B. Du Chaillu

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydalo

2020

Stránok

612

EAN

9789354305924

ISBN

935430592X

Enbook ID

33474099

Vydavateľ

Alpha Edition

Hmotnosť

885

Rozmery

152 x 229 x 35

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A nineteenth-century study that still crackles with curiosity, The Viking Age illuminates the lives behind the sagas and charts the roots of the English-speaking nations. Brave, blunt, and vividly observed. Part viking history book and part historical anthropology study, Paul du Chaillu examines norse customs and culture: the manners, laws and daily practices that shaped communities across Scandinavia and Britain. His chapters attend to household organisation, kinship, legal custom, ritual and seafaring, sketching ancient scandinavian society with a mix of anecdote and scholarship. The account sits squarely within the sweep of early medieval europe, looking particularly at movements that defined viking age england and the convulsions of ninth century europe, while preserving a readable tone that welcomes non-specialists and rewards careful readers.

Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. More than a curiosity of Victorian scholarship, the work is an important touchstone for anyone tracing english ancestry origins or the cultural threads between Norse and Anglo-Saxon worlds. It sits comfortably as an academic reference text for comparative study and yet retains the narrative colour that draws in medieval history lovers. Equally at home in a history enthusiasts collection or on the shelf of those collecting paul du chaillu works, this edition is a collectible, readable companion for readers exploring the Viking Age. Its observations continue to inform popular and specialist interest alike: as a foundation for popular imagination and as a useful complement to modern archaeological and philological work, it opens pathways into the lived world of the Norse. Du Chaillu writes with a nineteenth-century confidence that can be provocative, but his purposeful blend of narrative and study makes the volume an invaluable resource for those researching early medieval europe and for anyone curious about english ancestry origins. Whether consulted as a viking history book for general reading or kept as an academic reference text, casual readers and classic-literature collectors alike find rich rewards in its pages.

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