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Vikings and Goths : a history of ancient and medieval Sweden / Gary Dean Peterson.

Author/creator Peterson, Gary Dean, 1942- author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]
Descriptionviii, 314 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Subject(s)
Contents 1. A land reborn -- 2. The first settlers and Sweden's Mesolithic Age -- 3. Sweden of the Neolithic Age -- 4. Bronze Age Sweden -- 5. The Iron Age comes to Sweden -- 6. Roman Iron Age in Sweden -- 7. Visigoths defeat the Roman Empire -- 8. The Ostrogoths build an empire -- 9. Evidence of a Swedish origin for the Goths -- 10. Sweden in the German Iron Age : migration period -- 11. Sweden of the Vendel period -- 12. Norwegian Vikings assault the British Isles -- 13. Danish Vikings invade England -- 14. Viking raids and conquests in continental Europe -- 15. Viking ships and navigation -- 16. The Viking search for new lands -- 17. Danish unification during the Viking Age -- 18. The Norwegian struggle for independence -- 19. The empire of Knut the Great -- 20. William the Conqueror invades England -- 21. Norman Kingdom of Italy and Sicily -- 22. Swedish participation in the Western expeditions -- 23. Swedish unification -- 24. The Swedish people of the Viking Age -- 25. Sweden's early Viking expeditions to the East -- 26. The geography and people of Eastern Europe -- 27. Swedes of the Rus Khaganate -- 28. Sweden the great -- 29. Words written in stone -- 30. The last great expedition to the East -- 31. End of the Viking Age -- 32. Medieval Sweden -- 33. Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages -- 34. Novgorod the great, Lithuania and the rise of Moscow -- 35. Sweden and the Black Death -- 36. St. Birgitta of Sweden -- 37. Margareta and the Kalmar Union -- Epilogue.
Scope and content "This book details the development of Scandinavia from the end of the Ice Age, through a series of prehistoric cultures, the Bronze and Iron ages, to the Viking period and late Middle Ages. Recent research suggests a Swedish origin of the Goths, who helped dismember the Roman Empire, and evidence of Swedish participation in the western Viking expeditions"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formElectronic version: Peterson, Gary Dean, 1942- Vikings and Goths. Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016] 9781476624341
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2016021665
ISBN9781476662183 ( (paperback ; alkaline paper)
ISBN1476662185 ( (paperback ; alkaline paper)

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