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Viking Pirates and Christian Princes

Dynasty, Religion, and Empire in the North Atlantic

Benjamin Hudson author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:26th May '05

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This book studies two Viking families who appear in the records of the Atlantic littoral as pagan raiders and reinvent themselves as established Christian rulers. Their rise and transformation from the 10th to the 12th centuries highlights a period and people important for understanding the political, religious, and culture development of Europe in the High Middle Ages.

[Hudson's] reassessment of Sitric Silkenbeard's achievement is particularly convincing and will need to be taken into account by all future students of King Cnut's confederation...This work offers new, well-signposted, approaches to the study of what Patrick Wormald termed 'the British archipelago'. * Jonathan Shepard, Journal of Ecclesiastical History *

ISBN: 9780195162370

Dimensions: 160mm x 231mm x 25mm

Weight: 544g

296 pages