Syllabus/achievement requirements

PS: Husk ? fylle ut riktig emnekode i tittel-elementet (der det st?r "Pensum (- v?r 2004)). F?rst med utfylt emnekode vil pensumlisten bli lenket opp fra semestersiden til emnet.

General literature

F.M. Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England, 3rd ed. (1971), pp. 364-432, and as a general work of reference on Anglo-Saxon England [G Ste; and UHS 942.01 Ste]

A. Williams, Kingship and Government in Pre-Conquest England, c. 500-1066 (London, 1999), pp. 65-131 [UHS 942.01 Wil]. Valuable comments on the creation of a single kingdom in England.

H. Loyn, The Vikings in Britain (Oxford, 1995), pp. 52-76 [K Loy]

E. Roesdahl, Viking Age Denmark (London, 1982) [J Roe], especially. pp. 134-58 (military organization) and 171-6 (Harold Bluetooth and Jelling).

K. Randsborg, The Viking Age in Denmark: the formation of a State (London, 1980) [UHS 936.3 Danm Ran]. Good study from an archaeological perspective.

P. Sawyer, Kings and Vikings (London and New York, 1982), pp. 8-38 on sources [K Saw; and UHS 948.02 Saw]

E. Roesdahl, ’Dendrochronology and Viking Studies in Denmark, with a Note on the Beginning of the Viking Age’, in Developments around the Baltic and the North Sea in the Viking Age, ed. B. Ambrosiani and H. Clarke (Stockholm, 1994), pp. 106-16 [UHS 936.3 Sver Bir; SOPHUS A 948.02 Bir/3]. Valuable comment on this new and useful dating tool.

Additionally, when you come to write your papers, use this as a general guide to all the course:

K. Helle, T. Jansson and E. I. Kouri, The Cambridge History of Scandinavia (Cambridge, 2003) [UHS 948 Cam; SOPHUS N 340Cam] and some attention must be given to:

D. Whitelock, English Historical Documents c. 500-1042 (London, 1979) [UHS 942 Eng] as a huge collection of translated sources,. and to the large collection of material in the catalogue: From Viking to Crusader: Scandinavia and Europe, 800-1200 (Uddevalla, 1992) [J Vik]

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