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Women and Weapons in the Viking World - Amazons of the North (Hardcover)
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Women and Weapons in the Viking World - Amazons of the North (Hardcover)
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The Viking Age (c. 750-1050 AD) is conventionally seen as a
tumultuous time when hordes of fierce warriors from Scandinavia
wreaked havoc across the European continent and when Norse
merchants travelled to distant corners of the world in pursuit of
slaves, silver, and exotic commodities. Until relatively recently,
archaeologists and textual scholars had the tendency to weave a
largely male-dominated image of this pivotal period in world
history, dismissing or substantially downplaying women's roles in
Norse society. Today, however, there is ample evidence to suggest
that many of the most spectacular achievements of Viking Age
Scandinavians - for instance in craftsmanship, exploration,
cross-cultural trade, warfare and other spheres of life - would not
have been possible without the active involvement of women. Extant
textual sources as well as the perpetually expanding corpus of
archaeological evidence thus demonstrate unequivocally that both
within the walls of the household and in the wider public arena
women's voices were heard, respected and followed. This pioneering
and beautifully illustrated monograph provides an in-depth
exploration of women's associations with the martial sphere of life
in the Viking Age. The multifarious motivations and circumstances
that led women to engage in armed conflict or other activities
whereby weapons served as potent symbols of prestige and
empowerment are illuminated and interpreted through an
interdisciplinary approach to medieval literature and
archaeological evidence from Scandinavia and the wider Viking
world. Additional cross-cultural excursions into the lives and
legends of female warriors in other past and present cultural
milieus - from the Asiatic steppes to the savannas of Africa and
European battlefields - lead to a nuanced understanding of the idea
of the armed woman and its embodiments in Norse literature, myth
and archaeological reality.
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