The Cambridge History of Scandinavia, Issue 1Knut Helle This volume presents a comprehensive exposition of both the prehistory and medieval history of the whole of Scandinavia. The first part of the volume surveys the prehistoric and historic Scandinavian landscape and its natural resources, and tells how man took possession of this landscape, adapting culturally to changing natural conditions and developing various types of community throughout the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages. The rest - and most substantial part of the volume - deals with the history of Scandinavia from the Viking Age to the end of the Scandinavian Middle Ages (c. 1520). The external Viking expansion opened Scandinavia to European influence to a hitherto unknown degree. A Christian church organisation was established, the first towns came into being, and the unification of the three medieval kingdoms of Scandinavia began, coinciding with the formation of the unique Icelandic 'Free State'. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Scandinavian landscape and its resources | 15 |
The Stone and Bronze Ages | 43 |
The Iron Age | 60 |
Languages and ethnic groups | 94 |
The Viking expansion | 105 |
Viking culture | 121 |
Scandinavia enters Christian Europe | 147 |
PART V | 463 |
Literature | 487 |
Art and architecture | 521 |
Music | 550 |
Population and settlement | 559 |
The condition of the rural population | 581 |
The towns | 611 |
The nobility of the late Middle Ages | 635 |
Early political organisation | 160 |
PART III | 235 |
Rural conditions | 250 |
Urbanisation | 312 |
Towards nationally organised systems of government | 345 |
e Growing interScandinavian entanglement | 411 |
Church and society | 421 |
Church and clergy | 653 |
SCANDINAVIAN UNIONS 13191520 | 677 |
InterScandinavian relations | 710 |
Conclusion | 771 |
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Common terms and phrases
archaeological Archbishop areas aristocracy Baltic Bergen Birger bishops castles cathedral central centres Chapter chieftains Christian church coast coastal common council counsellors Crown cultivation culture Danish Denmark Denmark and Sweden districts early ecclesiastical economic election eleventh century Erik of Pomerania established Europe farms fifteenth century Finland Finnish fishing fourteenth century freeholders German Gotland Gulf of Bothnia Harald high medieval high Middle Ages hirð Iceland important influence Iron Age island Jylland Kalmar King Erik King Håkon king's Knut København land late medieval late Middle Ages later Lund magnates Margrethe monarchy nobility Nordic Norge Norse northern Norway Norwegian Olaf organisation Oslo Østlandet peasant period political population provinces realm regions royal power sagas Sami Scandinavia secular settlement Skåne society southern Sten Sture Stockholm Sweden Swedish tenants thirteenth century towns trade tradition Trøndelag Trondheim twelfth century union Uppsala urban Valdemar Västergötland Vestlandet Viking Age western
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