The Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by myth. It is true that they pillaged, looted, and enslaved. But they also settled peacefully and traveled far from their homelands in swift and sturdy ships…
In this book a MacArthur Award-winning scholar argues for a radically new interpretation of the conversion of Scandinavia from paganism to Christianity in the early Middle Ages. Overturning the received narrative of Europe's military and religious c…
En bok som vill hjälpa vanliga människor att ta sig ur ekonomiska svårigheter för egen maskin på ett konstruktivt sätt och med varaktigt resultat. Varje människa som har intresse av att förbättra sin vardagsekonomi kan ha glädje av boken. Innehållet…
This book offers perspectives on the legal and intellectual developments of the twelfth century. Gratian's collection of Church law, the Decretum, was a key text in these developments. Compiled in around 1140, it remained a fundamental work througho…
