ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1980.
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Northern World: The History and Heritage of Northern Europe AD 400 — 1100 / edited by David M. Wilson


London, Velika Britanija 1980. Tvrd povez, zaštitni omot, ilustrovano, veliki format (30,5 cm), 248 strana.
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The Renaissance made us forget our Northern ancestors. Yet the contribution of the Germanic-speaking peoples to our civilization between AD 400 and 1100 is in many ways as vital as that of the Latin speakers. Who were these men — the Goths and Franks, the Saxons and Celts, the Slavs and the Vikings to whom we owe so much? Why is it that until recently we paid them so little attention ?
To answer these questions David M. Wilson, Director of The British Museum and himself a world expert on the Vikings, has assembled a team of historians and archaeologists from England, Germany, Denmark and Sweden. They have condensed the discoveries of modern research (much of it technical and accessible only to specialists) into a concise and readable form, illustrated by a wealth of photographs and diagrams. Separate chapters are devoted to the Germanic tribes, the Anglo-Saxons, the Scandinavians in their homeland, the Vikings overseas, the Celts (Picts, Scots, Irish and Welsh) and the Northern Slavs. In addition there are two chapters bringing the story up to modern times — one on Germanic mythology, the other on Romanticism and Revival. These sections of the book reveal the power that the Nordic spirit had, and has, over the imagination, inspiring writers and artists as diverse as William Morris and Richard Wagner, Henry Fuseli and J. R. R. Tolkien. And not only artists. In the emerging nationalism of the late nineteenth century the myths and legends of the North were used to create new ideologies and to mould the character of new states. The Northern World is a book for everyone who seeks to understand the present in the light of the past.



Sadržaj:
INTRODUCTION
/ DAVID M. WILSON
(Director, The British Museum, London
)
GODS AND HEROES OF THE NORTHERN WORLD
/ CHRISTINE E. FELL
(Reader in English Studies, Nottingham University)
The realm of Thor
Odin, the All-father
Tyr, Frey and Freyja
The gods in folklore
Worlds of the living and the dead Weland the smith
The story of Sigurd
The heroic ethos

2
THE GERMANIC TRIBES IN EUROPE
/ H. AMENT
(Professor of European Archaeology, Freie Universitat,
Berlin)
Six tribes : the Franks, Alemanni, Burgundians, Visigoths, Saxons, Thuringians
The Merovingian kingdom
The social order Community and economic life
Paganism and Christianity

3
THE ANGLO-SAXON
SETTLEMENT OF ENGLAND
/ CATHERINE HILLS
(Assistant Lecturer in Post-Roman Archaeology, Cambridge University)
Angles, Saxons and Jutes
Migration and settlement
The Anglo-Saxon village
Provision for death : the cemeteries Augustine`s mission
The formation of the English state

4
THE CELTIC CONTRIBUTION: PICTS, SCOTS, IRISH AND WELSH
/ JAMES GRAHAM-CAMPBELL
(Lecturer in Medieval Archaeology, University College, London)
Ireland : beyond the Roman Empire
An artistic flowering
Dalriada, kingdom of the Scots
The Painted Men`
North Britons
Wales and the Irish
The realm of King Mark
Survivals and revivals
5
THE SCANDINAVIANS AT HOME
/ ELSE ROESDAHL
(Lecturer in Medieval Archaeology, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark)
The Germanic Iron Age
Wealth and war
Stories in stone
The graves of Vendel
Ribe, Hedeby and the Danevirke
The rise of the Vikings
The new faith

6
THE VIKING ADVENTURE
/ DAVID M. WILSON
(Director, The British Museum, London)
Raiders from the north
The route to Byzantium
The settlement of England
The Celtic west
Knut the Great, king of Denmark and England
Lands of mists and monsters
Vinland the Good
The Viking heritage
7
THE NORTHERN SLAVS
/ JOACHIM HERRMANN
(Director, Zentralinstitut fur Alte Geschichte und Archaologie, Berlin)
Changing structures
A land of forts
`The way from the Varangians to the Greeks`
Trade and culture
North-western
Slavs and the Germans
ROMANTICISM AND REVIVAL
/ JORAN MJOBERG
( Reader in Comparative Literature, Vaxjo University College,
Sweden)
Sagas reborn
Gods and men
The roots of Romanticism
Images of Nordic antiquity
Odin or Christ?
Political idealism in old Nordic disguise
Today`s perspective

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