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The North Atlantic Frontier of Medieval Europe - Vikings and Celts (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The North Atlantic Frontier of Medieval Europe - Vikings and Celts (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: The Expansion of Latin Europe, 1000-1500
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Discussion of medieval European expansion tends to focus on
expansion eastward and the crusades. The selection of studies
reprinted here, however, focuses on the other end of Eurasia, where
dwelled the warlike Celts, and beyond whom lay the north seas and
the awesome Atlantic Ocean, formidable obstacles to expansion
westward. This volume looks first at the legacy of the Viking
expansion which had briefly created a network stretching across the
sea from Britain and Ireland to North America, and had demonstrated
that the Atlantic could be crossed and land reached. The next
sections deal with the English expansion in the western and
northern British Isles. In the 12th century the Normans began the
process of subjugating the Celts, thus inaugurating for the English
an experience which was to prove crucial when colonizing the
Americas in the 17th century. Medieval Ireland in particular served
as a laboratory for the development of imperial institutions,
attitudes, and ideologies that shaped the creation of the British
Empire and served as a staging area for further expansion westward.
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