Embers of the Hands

Hidden Histories of the Viking Age: Longlisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction

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A scholarly delight, every page glittering with insight ... [a] wonderful book' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times'Brilliantly written ... evokes the wonder of an entire civilisation.' Tom Holland, author of Pax and co-host of The Rest is History'A wondrous, gorgeously-written book' Rebecca Wragg Sykes, author of Kindred'Takes us beyond the familiar into a real, visceral, far more satisfying Viking world.' Dan SnowImagine a Viking, and a certain image springs to mind: a nameless, faceless warrior, leaping ashore from a longboat, and ready to terrorise the hapless local population of a northern European country.Yet while such characters define the Viking Age today, they were in the minority. This is the history of all the other people - children, enslaved people, seers, artisans, travellers, writers - who inhabited the medieval Nordic world. Encompassing not just Norway, Denmark and Sweden, but also Iceland, Greenland, parts of the British Isles, Continental Europe and Russia, this is a history of a Viking Age filled with real people of different ages, genders and ethnicities, as told through the traces that they left behind, from hairstyles to place names, love-notes to gravestones.For the first time, you can immerse yourself in the day-to-day lives of extraordinary culture which spanned centuries and spread from the edge of the North American continent to the Russian steppes, from the Arctic wastelands to the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic Caliphate.
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Authors:
Barraclough, Eleanor
Year Published:
2024
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Format:
Hardback
Illustrations Note:
8pp colour platesIntegrated B&W
ISBN:
9781788166744
Number of Pages:
384
Place of Publication:
London
Publication Date:
19/09/2024
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
Language:
English
Imprint:
Profile Books Ltd
SKU:
9781788166744

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