The Vikings in England: Settlement, Society and CultureThis book will be a standard starting point for researchers and students investigating the Viking settlement of Britain. It provides a clear and exhaustive summary of available archaeological, historical and linguistic evidence. It considers the history and development of contemporary debates about Scandinavian settlement, and examines differences between rural and urban Viking settlement. It looks at the Scandinavian conversion to Christianity, and other cultural changes which coincided with settlement. |
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the development of a debate | 1 |
AngloScandinavian political accommodation | 28 |
Scandinavian rural settlement | 81 |
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Æthelweard Alfred Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Anglo-Saxon England Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture Anglo-Scandinavian army artefacts Athelstan Blackburn burhs cemetery centres Christian church coinage coins context Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Cultures in Contact Danelaw Domesday Book earlier early medieval early tenth century East Anglia eastern England ecclesiastical Edward the Elder eleventh century English ethnic example Excavations Graham-Campbell grave Guthrum Hadley and Richards History Ibid idem identified Jesch and Parsons King land late ninth century later Anglo-Saxon Lincoln Lincolnshire London Mercia metalwork Minster minted names Norse northern and eastern northern England Northumbria Oxford pagan period of Scandinavian political pottery pre-viking R. A. Hall raiders raids regions revealed Richards eds Rollason rural settlement Saint Cuthbert Scandinavian burials Scandinavian conquest Scandinavian control Scandinavian impact Scandinavian influence Scandinavian place-names Scandinavian settlement Scandinavian settlers St Cuthbert Stamford Stocker suggested tenth century Torksey urban Viking Age Viking Age England Wessex West Saxon York Yorkshire