HIS2140 Objects and Identities in the Viking Age (c.750-c.1050)
(Litterature marked with * will be sold as compendium at Kopiutsalget/Akademika. )
Required readings:
Books:
Peter Sawyer (ed.), The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997).
John Moreland, Archaeology and Text (London: Duckworth, 2001).
Articles and book chapters:
*Fredrik Svanberg, Decolonizing the Viking Age 1 (Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksell International, 2003), 36-99 (64 pp.).
*John E. Joseph, “Introduction,” in Language and Identity: National, Ethnic, Religious (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), 1-14, (14 pp.).
*Peter Heather, “Ethnicity, Group Identity, and Social Status in the Migration Period,” in Franks, Northmen, and Slavs: Identity and State Formation in Early Medieval Europe, ed. Ildar H. Garipzanov and others (Turnhout: Brepols, 2008), 17-49, (33 pp.).
*Ildar H. Garipzanov, “Frontier Identities: Carolingian Frontier and the gens Danorum,” in Franks, Northmen, and Slavs: Identity and State Formation in Early Medieval Europe, ed. Ildar H. Garipzanov and others (Turnhout: Brepols, 2008), 113-42 (30 pp.).
* Christopher Abram, Chapter 2. "The Gods on the Ground: Religious Culture as a Background to Pagan Myth,” in Myths of the Pagan North (London and New York: Continuum, 2011), 51-80, (30 pp.).
*Judith Jesch, Chapter 1. “Life and Death – The Evidence of Archaeology,” in Women in the Viking Age (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1991), 9-41, (33 pp.).
*Birgit Sawyer, “Women as Bridge-Builders: The Role of Women in Viking-Age Scandinavia,” in People and Places in Northern Europe 500-1600, ed. Ian Wood and Niels Lund (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1991), 211-224, (14 pp.).
*Arjun Appadurai, “Introduction: Commodities and the Politics of Value,” in Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective, ed. Arjun Appadurai (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), 3-63, (61 pp.).
*Ole Crumlin Pedersen and Birgitte Munch Thye (eds.), The Ship as Symbol in Prehistoric and Medieval Scandinavia: Papers from an International Research Seminar at the Danish National Museum, Copenhagen, 5th-7th May 1994 (Copenhagen: The National Museum, 1995), 9-19, 41-50, 131-147, (38 pp.).
*Bj?rn Varenius, “Maritime Warfare as an Organizing Principle in Scandinavian Society 1000-1300 AD,” in Maritime Warfare in Northern Europe: Technology, Organisation, Logistics and Administration 500 BC-1500 AD, ed. Anne N?rg?rd J?rgensen (Copenhagen: National Museum, 2002), 249-256, (8 pp.).
*Ewart Oakeshott, “Introduction to the Viking Sword,” in Swords of the Viking Age, ed. Ian Pierce (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2002), 1-24, (24 pp.).
*Anne Pedersen, “Weapons and Riding Gear in Burials: Evidence of Military and Social Rank in 10th Century Denmark?” in Military aspects of Scandinavian society in a European perspective, AD 1-1300, ed. Anne N?rg?rd J?rgensen and Birthe L. Clausen (Copenhagen: Nationalmuseet, 1997). 123-135 (13 pp.).
*Régine Le Jan, “Frankish Giving of Arms and Rituals of Power: Continuity and Change in the Carolingian Period,” in Rituals of Power: From Late Antiquity the Early Middle Ages, ed. Franz Theuws and Janet L. Nelson (Leiden: Brill, 2000), 281-309 (29 pp.).
*Anne Pedersen, “Bridging the Distribution Gap: Inscribed Swords from Denmark,” in The Viking Age: Ireland and the West: Papers from the Proceedings of the Fifteenth Viking Congress, Cork, 18-27 August 2005, ed. John Sheehan and Donnchadh ? Corráin (Dublin: Four Courts, 2010), 309-21 (13 pp.).
*Egon Wamers, “The Symbolic Significance of the Ship-graves at Hai?aby and Ladby,” in The Ship as Symbol in Prehistoric and Medieval Scandinavia, ed. Crumlin Pedersen and Munch Thye, 149-159 (11 pp.).
*J?rn Staecker, “The Cross Goes North: Christian Symbols and Scandinavian Women,” in The Cross Goes North: Processes of Conversion in Northern Europe, AD 300-1300, ed. Martin Carver (York: York Medieval Press, 2003), 463-482, (20 pp.).
*Philip Grierson, Numismatics (Oxford: Oxford university Press, 1975). 1-5, 124-139 (21 pp.).
*Gareth Williams, “Kingship, Christianity and Coinage: Monetary and Political Perspectives on Silver Economy in the Viking Age,” in Silver Economy in the Viking Age, ed. James Graham-Campbell and Gareth Williams (Walnut Creck, Ca.: Lert Coat, 2007), 177-214, (38 pp.).
Recommended articles (will be availeble in Fronter):
Tope Omoniyi, “Hierarchy of Identities,” in Sociolinguistics of Identity, ed. Tope Omoniyi and Goodith White (London: Continuum, 2006), 11-33, (23 pp.).
Anne-Sofie Gr?slund, ‘The Role of Scandinavian Women in Christianisation: The Neglected Evidence’, in in The Cross Goes North: Processes of Conversion in Northern Europe, AD 300-1300, ed. Martin Carver (York: York Medieval Press, 2003), 483–496, (14 pp.).
Bj?rn Myhre, “Boathouses and Naval Organization,” in Military Aspects of Scandinavian Society in a European Perspective, AD 1-1300: Papers from an International Research seminar at the Danish National Museum, Copenhagen, 2-4 May 1996, ed. Anne N?rg?rd J?rgensen and Birthe L. Clausen (Copenhagen: National Museum, 1997), 169-183, (15 pp.).
Lee A, Jones, “Overview of Hilt & Blade Classification,” in Swords of the Viking Age, ed. Ian Pierce (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2002), 15-24.
Ildar Garipzanov, “Coins as Symbols of Early Medieval ‘Staatlichkeit’,” in Der frühmittelalterliche Staat – europ?ische Perspektiven, ed. Walter Pohl and Veronika Wieser (Vienna: ?sterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2009), 411–22 (12 pp.).