The Vikings in England: Settlement, Society and Culture (Manchester Medieval Studies)

The book is factual, but a bit repetitive. Small print and dense pages dors not help. But I eastly prefer this book because of its focus on academic facts, rather than entertainment. I trust the authors conclusions

My background is not in social sciences, but in Physics. Nonetheless I am a huge fan of nordic culture, and I resolved to start a more serious approach to learn this exciting historical process. The objective view that the author does in the topics is highly appreciated, since many times we know only one sided view of the true record of history.

Good reading and full of information and historical research. A must have for my library.

The Vikings in England, settlement, society and Culture, D M Hadley, 2006, 279 pages including notes,This book is a deceptively easy read. The paragraphs go by quickly enough, but there is a lot of detail and it's not one where you can afford to let your attention wander.Chapters include an introduction (with talk on the historiography),Anglo Scandinavian political accommodationScandinavian rural settlementScandinavians in the urban environmentChurches and the Scandinavians – chaos, conversion and changeBurial practices: ethnicity, gender and social statusEpilogueIts frame of reference is more or less from 878 to 950, give or take, and it isn't concerned with campaigns and warfare, but instead with what the Danes did when they settled, where they did it, how they did it and how they got on with their neighbours. This makes for a more nuanced work than a list of towns ravaged.Hadley takes the line that the incomers assimilated pretty rapidly in every way once they settled and that a lot of people basing their thoughts on differences between the Danes and the Anglo-Saxons have been barking up the wrong tree.Despite being written in 2006, it's a tiny bit dated with respects to coins. Mark Blackburn is the go to coinage expert, whereas a later book would probably cite Naismith. There was a lot that I enjoyed within this. Political accommodation was very clear and I learnt a lot from it. The various problems matching Scandinavian place-names and settlement dates was gone into very well. It's also good on the early urban history of Danelaw. When it comes to the survival of the church in Danelaw, Hadley really brings out the fact that there is widespread evidence suggesting survival scattered throughout different areas, but nothing really proving the point beyond dispute for any one church. The paucity of acknowledged viking burials in England was examined and he suggests that given assimilation, many could be mistaken for Anglo-Saxon graves.Hadley makes a persuasive argument that large scale integration took place relatively swiftly. This is a book definitely worth a read.

Informative, readable and comprehensive. There are many invaluable insights here. I found this book difficult to put down.

El libro llegó en perfecto estado y sin ningún problema. Muy contenta con la compra.