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Prehistory to 1520

Series The Cambridge History of Scandinavia, Volume 1

Edited by Knut Helle

Publication Date 2003

Hardback ISBN-10
0521472997

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521472999

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521472999

Overview

This volume presents a comprehensive exposition of both the prehistory and medieval history of the whole of Scandinavia. The first part of the volume surveys the prehistoric and historic Scandinavian landscape and its natural resources, and tells how man took possession of this landscape, adapting culturally to changing natural conditions and developing various types of community throughout the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages. The rest - and most substantial part of the volume - deals with the history of Scandinavia from the Viking Age to the end of the Scandinavian Middle Ages (c. 1520). The external Viking expansion opened Scandinavia to European influence to a hitherto unknown degree. A Christian church organisation was established, the first towns came into being, and the unification of the three medieval kingdoms of Scandinavia began, coinciding with the formation of the unique Icelandic 'Free State'.

For more details of the
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Prehistory to 1520 in the Cambridge University Press online
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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Introduction
by
Knut Helle

The Geography and Prehistory of Scandinavia

From Vikings to Kings

Material Growth (to c. 1350)

The High Medieval Kingdoms

High and Late Medieval Culture

Late Medieval Society (c. 1350–1520)

Scandinavian Unions (1319–1520)

Select bibliography: primary sources, general surveys and secondary works arranged by part

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