In this book Lars Hermanson discusses how religious beliefs and norms steered attitudes to friendship and love, and how these ways of thinking also affected people’s social identity and political acti
In this volume Chris Callow provides a critical reading of the evidence for changes in Iceland’s socio-political structures from its colonisation to the 1260s when leading Icelanders swore oaths of lo
This volume offers a novel, trans-regional vision of Viking Age (9th-11th century) cultural and political contacts between Scandinavia and the eastern coasts of the Baltic Sea, using predominantly arc
The Nature of Kingship c. 800-1300. The Danish Incident by Nils Hybel presents the first comprehensive history of the changeable nature of monarchial power in Danish territories from the Viking Age to
"In Iceland's Relationship with Norway c. 870-c. 1100 : Memory, History and Identity, Ann-Marie Long reassesses the development of Icelandic society from the earliest settlements to the twelfth centur
"In Frontiers for Peace in the Medieval North : the Norwegian-Scottish Frontier, c. 1260-1470, Ian Peter Grohse examines social and political interactions in Orkney, a Norwegian-held province with lon
"Sturla ¤âorºarson is one of only a handful of thirteenth-century Icelandic historians to be known by name, and he is certainly one of the most significant. A number of works may be traced directly to
In Conquest and the Law in Swedish Livonia (ca. 1630-1710), Heikki Pihlajamäki offers an exciting account of the law in seventeenth-century Livonia, conquered by Sweden. The volume demonstrates how th
In Tales of the Iron Bloomery Bernt Rundberget argues that the ironmaking of southern Hedmark was an important basis for political developments from chiefdom to Norwegian kingdom in the period AD 700-
In Iceland’s Networked Society, Tara Carter examines how Viking Age Iceland, despite being positioned at the margins of competing empires, achieved social complexity on its own terms by successfully m
In Across the German Sea: Early Modern Scottish Connections with the Wider Elbe-Weser Region Zickermann analyses the commercial, maritime and military relations between Scotland and cities located al
A specialist in the esoteric and political Freemasonry of the 17th and 18th centuries, Schuchard was only interested in Swedish scientist, visionary theosopher, and benign mystic Swedenborg (1688-1722
Bellamy's (Glasgow Museums) Ph.D. dissertation in modern history (U. of Glasgow, 1997) examined the careers of Scottish shipwrights who worked for the Danish navy, and analyzed their ship designs. Her
This study is the most comprehensive assessment of Russia's commercial relations with the outside world in the seventeenth century and of the relationship between trade and economic growth. Based on e
Dying Prepared in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe offers an analysis of the various ways in which people made preparations for death in medieval and early modern Northern Europe.
In Identity Formation and Diversity in the Early Medieval Baltic and Beyond, contacts between Early Medieval Baltic Finns, Sami, Scandinavians, Slavs and Balts are discussed and exemplified. Communica
In Visual Cultures of Death in Central Europe, Aleksandra Koutny-Jones examines the remarkable cultural preoccupation with death in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569-1795), through a range of B
In The Church in Fourteenth Century Iceland, Erika Sigurdson offers an account of the fourteenth-century Icelandic Church, and the development of an elite beneficed clergy after the ecclesiastical ref
In Plantation and Civility Aonghas MacCoinnich offers an account of the Gaelic Scots, Lowland Scots, Dutch and English, who settled in Lewis in the early seventeenth century and considers the interact
In The Lordship of the Isles, twelve specialists open new perspectives on the rise and fall of the MacDonalds of Islay and the politics, culture and society of the greatest Gaelic lordship of later me
In A Punishment for Each Criminal Christine Ekholst provides the first in-depth analysis of how gender influenced Swedish medieval legislation. The book explores the important legislative changes that
In Governing Gaeldom, Allan Kennedy offers a fresh contribution to the literature of British state formation through a detailed reconstruction of the relationship between the Highlands and the Scottis
Hunters in Transition provides a new outline of the early history of the Sami and discusses issues such as the formation of Sami ethnicity, interaction with chieftain and state societies, and the tran
This collection of papers offers views of the interation and interdependence of Celtic and Norse populations in the the Irish Sea region in the period 800 A.D.-1200 A.D., bringing together the work of
In Royal Police Ordinances in Early Modern Sweden, based on analysis of a large amount of empirical material Toomas Kotkas claims that a new, voluntaristic understanding of law emerged in 17th-century
In "Clerics and Clansmen" Iain MacDonald examines the medieval diocese of Argyll in Gaelic Scotland between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, and the clergy who served within it, exploring their or
"Early Medieval Art and Archaeology in the Northern World" brings together leading experts on the European early Middle Ages in a celebration of the life and work of internationally renowned scholar J
The Hanse, an organization of towns and traders in medieval and early modern Europe, was a unique phenomenon. At the same time, it was embedded in the northern European urban and mercantile culture. T
In "Protestant Cosmopolitanism and Diplomatic Culture," Daniel Riches investigates seventeenth-century Brandenburg-Swedish relations to present an image of early modern diplomacy driven by complex net
The crusades to the Holy Land of 1095-1291 have traditionally been described from a fairly limited western European viewpoint. In this fine translation (by Paul Barford, from the Polish original of 20
This volume is part of the series titled The Northern World; North Europe and the Baltic c.400-1700 A.D. Peoples, Economics and Cultures. Bajer (history, Monash U., Australia), a Polish migrant in con
This volume is the result of an interdisciplinary research project carried out at the Centre for Advanced Study in Oslo, Norway, on ideological aspects of rulership in the Nordic countries (broadly de
In this thoughtful, well-supported study, Wardahl (post-doctoral fellow, Norwegian U. of Science and Technology, Trondheim) describes the political circumstances in the tributary lands of the Orkneys,
Survey chapters analyse advances in studies of Pictish culture during the last fifty years. Inter-disciplinary case studies cover archaeology, place-names, history, liturgy, and history within a wide
Through the juxtaposition of legal theory and practice and the utilization of detailed family reconstruction, a comparison of the property, remarriage and identity of widows in two fundamentally diffe
The twelve articles in this volume promote the growing contacts between medieval linguistics and medieval cultural studies generally. Articles address medieval English linguistics, and the interrelati
