Syllabus/achievement requirements

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.).

Kay Deaux and Daniela Martin, “Interpersonal Networks and Social Categories: Specifying Levels of Context in Identity Processes,” Social Psychology Quarterly 66,2 (2003): 101-117, (17 pp.).

Wulf Kansteiner, “Finding Meaning in Memory: A Methodological Critique of Collective Memory Studies,” History and Theory 41/2 (2002): 179-197, (21 pp.).

Lesley Abrams, “Diaspora and Identity in the Viking Age,” Early Medieval Europe 20,1 (2012), 17-38 (22 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.).

Søren M. Sindbæk, “The Lands of Denemearce: Cultural Difference and Social Networks of the Viking Age in South Scandinavia,” Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 4 (2008), 169-207, (39 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.).

Carole M. Cusack, The Rise of Christianity in Northern Europe, 300–1000 (London and New York: Cassell, 1999), 1–29 (29 pp.).

Maria Vretemark and Tony Axelsson, ’The Varnhem Archaeological Research Project: A New Insight into the Christianization of Västergötland’, Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 4 (2008), 209–19 (11 pp.).

Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, ’Gender, Material Culture, and Identity in the Viking Diaspora’, Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 5 (2009), 253–69, (17 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.).

*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.).

*Björn 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 Nørgård Jørgensen (Copenhagen: National Museum, 2002), 249-256, (8 pp.).

Frans-Arne Stylegar and Oliver Grimm, “Boathouses in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic,” The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 34,2 (2005): 253-268, (16 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 Nørgård Jørgensen 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 Ó Corráin (Dublin: Four Courts, 2010), 309-21 (13 pp.).

*Egon Wamers, “The Symbolic Significance of the Ship-graves at Haiðaby and Ladby,” in The Ship as Symbol in Prehistoric and Medieval Scandinavia, ed. Crumlin Pedersen and Munch Thye, 149-159 (11 pp.).

Jörn Staecker, “The Concepts of imitation and translatio: Perceptions of a Viking-Age Past,” Norwegian Archaeological Review 38,1 (2005), 3-9 (7 pp.).

*Jörn 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.).

Fedir Androshchuk, ‘Symbols of Faith or Symbols of Status? Christian Objects in Tenth-century Rus’,’ in Early Christianity on the Way from the Varangians to the Greeks, ed. Ildar Garipzanov and Oleksiy Tolochko (Kiev: Institute of Ukrainian History, 2011), 70–89, (20 pp.).

Søren Sindbæk, “Silver Economies and Social Ties: Long-Distance Interaction, Long-Term Investments ¬– and Why the Viking Age Happened,” in Silver Economies. Monetisation and Society in Scandinavia, AD 800-1100, ed. James Graham-Campbell and others (Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2011), 41-65, (25 pp.).

Jane F. Kershaw, “Culture and Gender in the Danelaw: Scandinavian and Anglo-Scandinavian Brooches,” Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 5 (2009), 295-325 (31 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.).

*Tope Omoniyi, Hierarchy of Identities, in Sociolinguistics of
Identity, ed. Tope Omoniyi and Goodith White (London: Continuum, 2006),
11-31 (21 pp.), ISBN 0-8264-9064-6;
 
*Jan Assmann, Cultural Memory and Early Civilization: Writing,
Remembrance, and Political Imagination (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2011), pp. 1-­11, 111-­41, (42 pp.) ISBN 978-0-521-18802-9
 
 
 
 
*Ildar Garipzanov, “Coins as Symbols of Early Medieval ‘Staatlichkeit’,” in Der frühmittelalterliche Staat – europäische Perspektiven, ed. Walter Pohl and Veronika Wieser (Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2009), 411–22 (12 pp.).

Extra compendium for HIS4140:

*John E. Joseph, “Introduction,” in Language and Identity: National, Ethnic, Religious (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), 1-14, ISBN 0-333-99753-0 (14 pp.);

*lldar 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.).

*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, ISBN 0-85115-547-2 (14 pp.);

*Anne-Sofie Gräslund, “The Role of Scandinavian Women in Christianisation: The Neglected Evidence,” in The Cross Goes North: Processes of Conversion in Northern Europe, AD 300-1300, ed. Martin Carver (York: York Medieval Press, 2003), 483–496, ISBN 1-903153-11-5.

*Bjørn 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 Nørgård Jørgensen and Birthe L. Clausen  (Copenhagen: National Museum, 1997), 169-183, ISBN 87-89384-54-7.

Lee A, Jones, “Overview of Hilt & Blade Classification,” in Swords of the Viking Age, ed. Ian Pierce (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2002), 15-24.

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