Full name: The Vikings: A History

Author: Robert Ferguson Year: 2009 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780670020799 9780143118015 0670020796 0143118013

The Vikings have a kind of dual existence in popular culture, where the Hollywood image of horned helmeted warriors set on rape and pillage has largely been replaced with a less exciting vision of trade and settlement. Robert Ferguson's new interpretation of the Viking Age, whilst rejecting the cliches aims to return some of the violence to the mix. He argues that the Viking raids were qualitatively different than anything that had gone before precisely because of this violence, and his largely narrative account gives plentiful details of battles and conquest alongside evidence for their more peaceful activities. The thread which runs through the account though is the confrontation between a Heathen Scandinavia and the Christian kingdoms to its south and west, and the processes whereby the Viking kingdoms came to be Christianised. Similar books: A History of the Vikings by Gwyn Jones The Vikings by Else Roesdahl Vikings by Neil Oliver The Vikings by Kenneth W. Harl Viking Age Iceland by Jesse L. Byock Viking by Susan M. Margeson The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan Catastrophe by David Keys Civilization by Roger Osborne All Hell Let Loose by Max Hastings A Brief History of the Western World by Thomas H. Greer 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof by J. A. Rogers Dreamers and Deceivers by Glenn Beck Twenty Million Tons Under the Sea by Daniel V. Gallery The Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quigley History by Adam Hart-Davis Astoria by Peter Stark 1492 by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Nature's Metropolis by William Cronon The Gold Hunters by J. D. Borthwick