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The Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by myth. It is true that they pillaged, looted, and enslaved. But they also settled peacefully and traveled far from their homelands in swift and sturdy ships to explore. The Age of the Vikings tells the full story of this exciting period in history. Drawing on a wealth of written, visual, and archaeological evidence, Anders Winroth captures the innovation and pure daring of the Vikings without glossing over their destructive heritage. He not only explains the Viking attacks, but also looks at Viking endeavors in commerce, politics, discovery, and colonization, and reveals how Viking arts, literature, and religious thought evolved in ways unequaled in the rest of Europe. The Age of the Vikings sheds new light on the complex society, culture, and legacy of these legendary seafarers.

Vikings. --- Civilization, Viking. --- Vikings --- Civilisation viking --- History. --- Middle Ages. --- HISTORY / Europe / Scandinavia. --- Dark Ages --- History, Medieval --- Medieval history --- Medieval period --- Middle Ages --- World history, Medieval --- World history --- Civilization, Medieval --- Medievalism --- Renaissance --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Viking civilization --- Northmen --- Civilization

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This book offers perspectives on the legal and intellectual developments of the twelfth century. Gratian's collection of Church law, the Decretum, was a key text in these developments. Compiled in around 1140, it remained a fundamental work throughout and beyond the Middle Ages. Until now, the many mysteries surrounding the creation of the Decretum have remained unsolved, thereby hampering exploration of the jurisprudential renaissance of the twelfth century. Professor Winroth has now discovered the original version of the Decretum, which has long lain unnoticed among medieval manuscripts, in a version about half as long as the final text. It is also different from the final version in many respects - for example, with regard to the use of of Roman law sources - enabling a reconsideration of the resurgence of law in the twelfth century.

Canon law --- History. --- Gratian, --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Canon law - History --- Gratian, - active 12th century - Decretum

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"In this book a MacArthur Award-winning scholar argues for a radically new interpretation of the conversion of Scandinavia from paganism to Christianity in the early Middle Ages. Overturning the received narrative of Europe's military and religious conquest and colonization of the region, Anders Winroth contends that rather than acting as passive recipients, Scandinavians converted to Christianity because it was in individual chieftains' political, economic, and cultural interests to do so. Through a painstaking analysis and historical reconstruction of both archeological and literary sources, and drawing on scholarly work that has been unavailable in English, Winroth opens up new avenues for studying European ascendency and the expansion of Christianity in the medieval period"--

Vikings --- Economics --- Conversion --- Commerce --- History --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Religion --- Scandinavia --- Economic conditions --- 936.8 --- 936.8 Geschiedenis van de Scandinaviërs, de Noormannen en de Vikings --- Geschiedenis van de Scandinaviërs, de Noormannen en de Vikings --- Economie politique --- History. --- Religion. --- Christianity. --- Histoire --- Aspect religieux --- Christianisme --- Scandinavie --- Economic conditions. --- Conditions économiques --- Vikings - Commerce - History --- Economics - Religious aspects - Christianity - History --- Vikings - Religion --- Conversion - Christianity --- Scandinavia - Commerce - History --- Scandinavia - Economic conditions --- Scandinavia - Religion - History --- Christian church history --- History of Scandinavia and Iceland --- anno 800-1199 --- anno 700-799

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Canon law touched nearly every aspect of medieval society, including many issues we now think of as purely secular. It regulated marriages, oaths, usury, sorcery, heresy, university life, penance, just war, court procedure, and Christian relations with religious minorities. Canon law also regulated the clergy and the Church, one of the most important institutions in the Middle Ages. This Cambridge History offers a comprehensive survey of canon law, both chronologically and thematically. Written by an international team of scholars, it explores, in non-technical language, how it operated in the daily life of people and in the great political events of the time. The volume demonstrates that medieval canon law holds a unique position in the legal history of Europe. Indeed, the influence of medieval canon law, which was at the forefront of introducing and defining concepts such as 'equity,' 'rationality,' 'office,' and 'positive law,' has been enormous, long-lasting, and remarkably diverse.

Canon law --- Droit canonique --- Law, Medieval. --- Droit médiéval --- History --- Eastern churches --- Églises orientales --- 600-1500. --- Law, Medieval --- Medieval law --- Public law (Canon law) --- Law --- Ecclesiastical law --- Rescripts, Papal --- Catholic Church --- 348 --- 34 <09> --- 940.1 --- 940.1 Geschiedenis van Europa: Middeleeuwen:--(ca.375-1492) --- Geschiedenis van Europa: Middeleeuwen:--(ca.375-1492) --- 34 <09> Rechtsgeschiedenis --(algemeen) --- Rechtsgeschiedenis --(algemeen) --- 348 Kerkelijk recht. Canoniek recht --- Kerkelijk recht. Canoniek recht --- 348 Ecclesiastical law. Canon law. Religious law --- Ecclesiastical law. Canon law. Religious law --- Canon law - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Canon law - Eastern churches - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Droit médiéval --- Églises orientales