Vikings at War

Kim Hjardar, Vegard Vike (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

400 Seiten

2019
Casemate Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-61200-799-1 (ISBN)

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A comprehensive account of the Viking art of war, weapons and the history of their conquests

Vikings at War is a sumptuous depiction of how the Vikings waged war: their weapons technology, offensive and defensive warfare, military traditions and tactics, their fortifications, ships and command structure. It also portrays the Viking raids and conquest campaigns that brought the Vikings to virtually every corner of Europe and even to America. Between the 9th and 11the century, Viking ships landed on almost every shore in the Western world. Viking ravages united the Spanish kingdoms and stopped Charlemagne and the Franks' advance in Europe. Wherever Viking ships roamed, enormous suffering followed in their wake, but the encounter between cultures changed both European and Nordic societies.

Employing unorthodox and unpredictable strategies, which were hard for more organized forces to respond to, the most crucial element of the Vikings' success was their basic strategy of evading the enemy by arriving by sea, then attacking quickly and with great force before withdrawing quickly. The warrior class dominated in a militarized society. Honor was everything, and breaking promises and ruining one’s posthumous reputation was considered worse than death itself. If a man offended another man’s honor, the only way out was blood revenge.

Vikings at War provides a vivid account of the Viking art of war, weapons and the history of their conquests with over 380 colour illustrations including beautiful reconstruction drawings, maps, cross-section drawings of ships, line-drawings of fortifications, battle plan reconstructions and photos of surviving artefacts including weapons and jewellery.

Kim Hjardar holds a MPhil in Nordic Viking and Medieval Culture from the University of Oslo and works as a lecturer in history at St Hallvard College. He has been involved in Viking and Medieval studies for more than fifteen years, both as a professional and through living history re-enactment. He is head of Norway’s biggest and oldest Viking re-enactment association. Vegard Vike is archaeological conservator at the Museum of Cultural History, Oslo. He has researched Viking handicraft technologies extensively. He works on a daily basis with X-rays and microscopes and the meticulous surface-cleaning of weapons from exhumed graves, which has given him a deep and thorough knowledge of the subject. He has also trained in martial arts using the different weapons of the era, as well as carrying out actual weapons production based on historical weaponsmith techniques.

Foreword Beaduheard Meets His Fate

1. THE VIKINGS
Who were the Vikings?
Viking society The Viking warriors’ religion

2. THE ART OF WAR
Viking troops
Viking military techniques

3. VIKING FORTIFICATIONS
Viking fortifications

4. VIKING SHIPS
The Viking ship

5. VIKING WEAPONS
The Vikings and their weapons

6. VIKING INVASIONS
The world of the Vikings
The Islands in the West
Ireland
England
The Frankish Empire and France
The Iberian peninsula
The lands in the East
Byzantium
Greenland and America

notes
bibliography
indices
list of maps
image
credits

Erscheinungsdatum	27.08.2019
Zusatzinfo	380
Sprache	englisch
Maße	210 x 250 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby
	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-61200-799-6 / 1612007996
ISBN-13	978-1-61200-799-1 / 9781612007991
Zustand	Neuware