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Author: Jon Johannesson Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press ISBN: 0887553311 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 420
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The founding of the Old Icelandic Commonwealth in 930 A.D. is one of the most significant events in the history of early Western Europe. This pioneering work of historiography provides a comprehensive history of Iceland from 870 A.D. to the end of the Commonwealth in 1262.
Author: Jon Johannesson Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press ISBN: 0887553311 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 420
Book Description
The founding of the Old Icelandic Commonwealth in 930 A.D. is one of the most significant events in the history of early Western Europe. This pioneering work of historiography provides a comprehensive history of Iceland from 870 A.D. to the end of the Commonwealth in 1262.
Author: Sverrir Jakobsson Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1040122795 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 246
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In the ninth century, at the beginning of this account, Iceland was uninhabited save for fowl and smaller Arctic animals. In the middle of the sixteenth century, by the end of this history, it had embarked on a course that led to the creation of a small country on the periphery of Europe. The history of medieval Iceland is to some degree a microcosm of European history, but in other respects it has a trajectory of its own. As in medieval Europe, the evolution of the Church, episodic warfare, and the strengthening of the bonds of government played an important role. Unlike the rest of Europe, however, Iceland was not settled by humans until the Middle Ages and it was without towns and any type of executive government until the late medieval period. Medieval Iceland is a review of Icelandic history from the settlement until the advent of the Reformation, with an emphasis on social and political change, but also on cultural developments, such as the creation of a particular kind of literature, known throughout the world as the sagas. A view of medieval Icelandic history as it has never been told before from one of its leading historians, this book will appeal to students and scholars alike interested in Icelandic and medieval history.
Author: Kirsten Hastrup Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 312
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In 930, Iceland first established a common law for the island and became an autonomous republic, which lasted until it came under the sovereignty of the Norwegian king nearly three and a half centuries later. This volume is a two-part analysis of that society, known as the Icelandic "commonwealth" or "Freestate." The first section examines how medieval Icelanders classified and perceived such domains as time, space, kinship, political organization, and cosmology, linking together these various realms to present an integrated picture of the society's world-view. The second section focuses on the changes that took place during the period in the fields of ecology, demography, religion, property relations, and the law, and explains how and why these changes, interacting with more fundamental social structures and beliefs, undermined--and ultimately destroyed--the society.
Author: Ann-Marie Long Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004336516 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 311
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In Iceland’s Relationship with Norway c.870 – c.1100: Memory, History and Identity, Ann-Marie Long reassesses the development of early Icelandic society and how it was memorialised, with particular attention given to the place of Norway in Icelandic cultural memory.
Author: Jon Johannesson
Author: Jon Johannesson
Author: Jón Jóhannesson
Author: Jón Jóhannesson
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Author: Jón Jóhannesson
Author: Jón Jóhannesson
Author: Sverrir Jakobsson
Author: Charles Augustus Vansittart Conybeare
Author: Kirsten Hastrup
Author: Ann-Marie Long