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The Vikings

Harl, Kenneth W. (Author). Teaching Company. (Added Author).

Summary: As explorers and traders, the Vikings played a decisive role in the formation of Latin Christendom, and particularly of Western Europe. In this course the Vikings will be studied not only as warriors, but also in other roles for which they are equally extraordinary: merchants, artists, kings, raiders, seafarers, shipbuilders, and creators of a remarkable literature of myths and sagas.

Record details

ISBN: 9781598030709
ISBN: 1598030701
Physical Description: 6 videodiscs (approximately 1080 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 course guidebooks (22 cm).
videodisc
videorecording
Publisher: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, [2005]
Copyright: ©2005

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Course no. 3910." "The Great courses, Topic: History ; Subtopic: Medieval History"--Cover. Course guidebooks laid in containers. Thirty-six lectures on 6 discs in 3 containers.
Formatted Contents Note:	Part 1, Disc 1. Vikings in Medieval history ; Land and people of Medieval Scandinavia ; Scandinavian society in the Bronze Age ; Scandinavia in the Celtic and Roman Ages ; Age of migrations ; Norse gods -- Disc 2. Runes, poetry, and visual arts ; Legendary kings and heroes ; A revolution in shipbuilding ; Warfare and society in the Viking Age ; Merchants and commerce in the Viking Age ; Christendom on the eve of the Viking Age -- Part 2, Disc 3. Viking raids on the Carolingian Empire ; Duchy of Normandy ; Viking assault on England ; Danelaw ; Viking assault on Ireland ; Norse Kings of Dublin and Ireland -- Disc 4. Settlement of Iceland ; Iceland: a frontier republic ; Skaldic poetry and sagas ; Western voyages to Greenland and Vinland ; Swedes in the Baltic Sea and Russia ; Road to Byzantium -- Part 3, Disc 5. From Varangians into Russians ; Transformation of Scandinavian Society ; St. Anskar and the First Christian Missions ; Formation of the Kingdom of Denmark ; Cnut the Great ; Collapse of Cnut's Empire -- Disc 6. Jarls and Sea Kings of Norway ; St. Olaf of Norway ; Kings of the Swedes and Goths ; Christianization and economic change ; From Vikings to crusaders ; Viking legacy.
Participant or Performer Note:	Lectures delivered by Professor Kenneth W. Harl, Tulane University.
System Details Note:	DVD.