Vikings in the South

Voyages to Iberia and the Mediterranean

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

AvAnn Christys,Ian Wood

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In the ninth century, Vikings carried out raids on the Christian north and Muslim south of the Iberian peninsula (modern Spain and Portugal), going on to attack North Africa, southern Francia and Italy and perhaps sailing as far as Byzantium. A century later, Vikings killed a bishop of Santiago de Compostela and harried the coasts of al-Andalus. Most of the raids after this date were small in scale, but several heroes of the Old Norse sagas were said to have raided in the peninsula.These Vikings have been only a footnote to the history of the Viking Age. Many stories about their activities survive only in elaborate versions written centuries after the event, and in Arabic. This book reconsiders the Arabic material as part of a dossier that also includes Latin chronicles and charters as well as archaeological and place-name evidence. Arabic authors and their Latin contemporaries remembered Vikings in Iberia in surprisingly similar ways. How they did so sheds light on contemporary responses to Vikings throughout the medieval world.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-08-27
Mått156 x 234 x 13 mm
Vikt395 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Early Medieval History
Antal sidor152
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781474213769

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List of IllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Introduction: Don Teudo Rico Defeats a Viking raidChapter 2. From the Encircling OceanChapter 3. So the Story GoesChapter 4. A Mediterranean AdventureChapter 5. Waiting for the BarbariansChapter 6. The Wars of Santiago and Cordoba against VikingsChapter 7. Conclusion: from Charter to History to SagaAppendix 1: Glossary of Histories and HistoriansAppendix 2: TimelineBibliographyIndex

One of the great strengths of this book is that, from start to finish, all of the written sources – whether in Arabic, Latin, Old Norse or Romance – are treated with the utmost degree of caution ... Ann Christys treads a cautious path and we should all be grateful to her for having, with infinite patience and considerable skill, built such a secure and durable bridge to the various fields of operations of those Viking sun-seekers.