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Vikings and Goths : a history of ancient and medieval Sweden / Gary Dean Peterson. [electronic resource]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland and Company, Incorporated, Publishers, (c)2016.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 314 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781476624341
  • 1476624348
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DL660
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Contents:
1. A land reborn -- 2. The first settlers and Sweden's Mesolithic Age -- 3. Sweden of the Neolithic Age -- 4. Bronze Age Sweden -- 5. The Iron Age comes to Sweden -- 6. Roman Iron Age in Sweden -- 7. Visigoths defeat the Roman Empire -- 8. The Ostrogoths build an empire -- 9. Evidence of a Swedish origin for the Goths -- 10. Sweden in the German Iron Age : migration period -- 11. Sweden of the Vendel period -- 12. Norwegian Vikings assault the British Isles -- 13. Danish Vikings invade England -- 14. Viking raids and conquests in continental Europe -- 15. Viking ships and navigation -- 16. The Viking search for new lands -- 17. Danish unification during the Viking Age -- 18. The Norwegian struggle for independence -- 19. The empire of Knut the Great -- 20. William the Conqueror invades England -- 21. Norman Kingdom of Italy and Sicily -- 22. Swedish participation in the Western expeditions -- 23. Swedish unification -- 24. The Swedish people of the Viking Age -- 25. Sweden's early Viking expeditions to the East -- 26. The geography and people of Eastern Europe -- 27. Swedes of the Rus Khaganate -- 28. Sweden the great -- 29. Words written in stone -- 30. The last great expedition to the East -- 31. End of the Viking Age -- 32. Medieval Sweden -- 33. Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages -- 34. Novgorod the great, Lithuania and the rise of Moscow -- 35. Sweden and the Black Death -- 36. St. Birgitta of Sweden -- 37. Margareta and the Kalmar Union -- Epilogue.
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Scope and content: "This book details the development of Scandinavia from the end of the Ice Age, through a series of prehistoric cultures, the Bronze and Iron ages, to the Viking period and late Middle Ages. Recent research suggests a Swedish origin of the Goths, who helped dismember the Roman Empire, and evidence of Swedish participation in the western Viking expeditions"--
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Includes bibliographies and index.

1. A land reborn -- 2. The first settlers and Sweden's Mesolithic Age -- 3. Sweden of the Neolithic Age -- 4. Bronze Age Sweden -- 5. The Iron Age comes to Sweden -- 6. Roman Iron Age in Sweden -- 7. Visigoths defeat the Roman Empire -- 8. The Ostrogoths build an empire -- 9. Evidence of a Swedish origin for the Goths -- 10. Sweden in the German Iron Age : migration period -- 11. Sweden of the Vendel period -- 12. Norwegian Vikings assault the British Isles -- 13. Danish Vikings invade England -- 14. Viking raids and conquests in continental Europe -- 15. Viking ships and navigation -- 16. The Viking search for new lands -- 17. Danish unification during the Viking Age -- 18. The Norwegian struggle for independence -- 19. The empire of Knut the Great -- 20. William the Conqueror invades England -- 21. Norman Kingdom of Italy and Sicily -- 22. Swedish participation in the Western expeditions -- 23. Swedish unification -- 24. The Swedish people of the Viking Age -- 25. Sweden's early Viking expeditions to the East -- 26. The geography and people of Eastern Europe -- 27. Swedes of the Rus Khaganate -- 28. Sweden the great -- 29. Words written in stone -- 30. The last great expedition to the East -- 31. End of the Viking Age -- 32. Medieval Sweden -- 33. Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages -- 34. Novgorod the great, Lithuania and the rise of Moscow -- 35. Sweden and the Black Death -- 36. St. Birgitta of Sweden -- 37. Margareta and the Kalmar Union -- Epilogue.

"This book details the development of Scandinavia from the end of the Ice Age, through a series of prehistoric cultures, the Bronze and Iron ages, to the Viking period and late Middle Ages. Recent research suggests a Swedish origin of the Goths, who helped dismember the Roman Empire, and evidence of Swedish participation in the western Viking expeditions"--

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