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Cargando... Dragon Lords: The History and Legends of Viking Englandpor Eleanor Parker
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. An example of a "it's not you, it's me" kind of book reaction: I thought I'd picked up a book that would have more to say about the history of Viking raids in England, daily life in the Danelaw, and so on, and what Eleanor Parker actually wrote was a book that is more about later medieval English literary use/memorialisation of the figure of the Viking raider/Danish invader. Parker clearly knows the sources very well, but I can't say that the writing was strong enough to reinforce my waning interest in the book as I read. ( )
The book is well written and extensively researched. Parker has brought together an impressive range of materials and assembled them into a clear picture of what people in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries thought of the Scandinavians who had settled their homeland centuries earlier. The text is very readable and suitable for a broad audience. Overall, the book is a unique and substantial contribution. Anyone who enjoys reading about the Vikings will find this book fascinating. Scholars of Middle English literature and those interested in the Scandinavian settlement of England should definitely not miss it.
"Why did the Vikings sail to England? Were they indiscriminate raiders, motivated solely by bloodlust and plunder? One narrative, the stereotypical one, might have it so. But locked away in the buried history of the British Isles are other, far richer and more nuanced, stories; and these hidden tales paint a picture very different from the ferocious pillagers of popular repute"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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