- tweedehands - Engels
- HC – 172 blz
- een ouder boek (1980) maar in heel goede staat
- afmetingen: b16h25,5
- This book gives a new account of the startling economic and social changes which took place in southern Scandinavia during the ninth and tenth centuries. Reacting against the traditional view of the Vikings, which has centred on their politics, warfare and oversea raids, Dr Randsborg is equally sceptical of more recent research, which puts too much emphasis on the trade and crafts of the Vikings. Instead he uses new archaeological methods and a variety of different data – climate, burials, settlements, philology, the scattered written sources – to examine in depth the many factors which contributed to the formation of the Danish state at this period, presenting his picture of Viking society against a background of the principles that govern the rise of states in general.