Нил Прайс – лучшие книги

Немногие культуры древности вызывают столько же интереса, как культура викингов. Всего за три столетия, примерно с 750 по 1050 год, народы Скандинавии преобразили северный мир, и последствия этого ощущаются до сих пор. Викинги изменили политическую и культурную карту Европы, придали новую форму торговле, экономике, поселениям и конфликтам, распространив их от…

The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they reshaped the world between eastern North America and the Asian steppe. For a millennium, though, their history has largely been filtered through the writings of their victims. Based on the latest archaeological and textual evidence, Children of Ash and Elm tells the story of the Vikings on their own terms: their politics, their cosmology, their art and culture. From Björn Ironside, who led an expedition to sack Rome, to Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, the most travelled woman in the world, Price shows us the real Vikings, not the caricatures they have become in popular culture and history.