Vikings in the south : voyages to Iberia and the Mediterranean Ann Christys.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Christys, Ann, author.

Series:

Studies in early medieval history.

Studies in Early Medieval History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vikings--Mediterranean Region.

Vikings.

Vikings--Spain.

Spain--History--711-1516.

Spain.

Mediterranean Region--History--To 1500.

Mediterranean Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (153 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

List of Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Introduction: Don Teudo Rico Defeats a Viking raid

Chapter 2. From the Encircling Ocean

Chapter 3. So the Story Goes

Chapter 4. A Mediterranean Adventure

Chapter 5. Waiting for the Barbarians

Chapter 6. The Wars of Santiago and Cordoba against Vikings

Chapter 7. Conclusion: from Charter to History to Saga

Appendix 1: Glossary of Histories and Historians

Appendix 2: Timeline

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN:

9781474213769

1474213766

9781474213790

1474213790

OCLC:

906575918