Northern World Series Analyzes Scottish, Scandinavian History

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Series: NW Volume: 62 Version: Hardback ISBN13: 9789004248342 Status: Forthcoming Title
Across the German Sea

Kathrin Zickermann, University of the Highlands and Islands In Across the German Sea: Early Modern Scottish Connections with the Wider Elbe-Weser Region Zickermann analyses the commercial, maritime and military relations between Scotland and cities located alongside the lower parts of the rivers Elbe and Weser. More information
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Series: NW Volume: 61 Version: Hardback ISBN13: 9789004185470 Status: New Title
Clerics and Clansmen

Iain G. MacDonald, University of Glasgow In Clerics and Clansmen Iain MacDonald examines the medieval diocese of Argyll in Gaelic Scotland between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, and the clergy who served within it, exploring their origins, clerical celibacy, education and pastoral care. More information
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Series: NW Volume: 60 Version: Hardback ISBN13: 9789004212527 Status: Available: In Print
The Hanse in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Edited by Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz, Leiden University, and Stuart Jenks, University of Erlangen The Hanse in Medieval and Early Modern Europe discusses new research on this unique organization of towns and traders, and places the findings in the broader context of European economic, legal and social history. More information
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Protestant Cosmopolitanism and Diplomatic Culture

Daniel Riches, University of Alabama In Protestant Cosmopolitanism and Diplomatic Culture, Daniel Riches investigates seventeenth-century Brandenburg-Swedish relations to present an image of early
modern diplomacy driven by interpersonal networks grounded in
their members educational backgrounds, intellectual and cultural ... More information
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Series: NW Volume: 58 Version: Hardback ISBN13: 9789004235038 Status: New Title
Early Medieval Art and Archaeology in the Northern World

Edited by Andrew Reynolds and Leslie Webster Early Medieval Art and Archaeology in the Northern World comprises a wealth of original contributions to medieval studies, with a wide topical and geographical remit. More information
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Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th to 18th Centuries
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Peter Paul Bajer, Monash University This book offers an examination of Scottish migration to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: numbers of migrants; patterns of settlement; laws regulating their presence; their activities; their social advancement into the Polish nobility; their assimilation and then the eventual disappearance as ... More information
The Forgotten Crusaders

Mikoaj Gadysz By analysing cases of Polish involvement in the crusades and collecting traces of the crusading ideology and preaching in Polish sources from the 12th and 13th century, the book makes a valuable contribution to the discussion about the place of Central Europe in medieval Western Civilization. More information
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Emanuel Swedenborg, Secret Agent on Earth and in Heaven

Marsha Keith Schuchard Drawing on unpublished diplomatic and Masonic archives, this study reveals the career of Emanuel Swedenborg as a secret intelligence agent for Louis XV and the pro-French, pro-Jacobite party of Hats in Sweden. Utilizing Kabbalistic meditation techniques, he sought political intelligence on More information
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Kings' Sagas and Norwegian History

Shami Ghosh Surveying the past two decades of scholarship on the medieval historiography of Norway, this book provides a critical appraisal of the principal issues involved in the study of the primary sources and the key areas of scholarship and future research. More information
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The Incorporation and Integration of the King's Tributary Lands into the Norwegian Realm c. 1195-1397
Randi Bjrshol Wrdahl Inspired by transnational research on medieval state formation, this book presents a comprehensive study of the political incorporation and subsequent judicial and administrative integration of Iceland, the Faroes, Shetland, and Orkney, into the Norwegian realm c. 1195-1397. More information
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Series: NW Volume: 52 Version: Hardback ISBN13: 9789004205062 Status: Available: Print on Demand
Ideology and Power in the Viking and Middle Ages
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Edited by Gro Steinsland, Jn Viar Sigursson, Jan Erik Rekdal and Ian Beuermann This book analyses the Nordic pre-Christian ideology of rulership, and its confrontation with, survival into and adaptation to the European Christian ideals during the transition from the Viking to the Middle Ages from the ninth to the thirteenth century. More information
Constructing a Cult
Joanna A. Skrzewska Based on a variety of extant written sources, this study offers a comprehensive reevaluation of Gumundr Arasons popularity in medieval Iceland. It presents a new perspective on the saintly fame and veneration of this controversial and interesting individual. More information
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Pictish Progress
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Edited by Stephen T. Driscoll, Jane Geddes and Mark A. Hall Survey chapters analyse advances in studies of Pictish culture during the last fifty years. Inter-disciplinary case studies cover archaeology, place-names, history, liturgy, and history within a wider European framework. More information
High-Ranking Widows in Medieval Iceland and Yorkshire

Philadelphia Ricketts Through the juxtaposition of legal theory and practice and the utilization of detailed family reconstruction, a comparison of the property, remarriage and identity of widows in two fundamentally different societies provides a fresh approach which reconsiders generalizations about widows ... More information
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Interfaces between Language and Culture in Medieval England

Edited by Alaric Hall, Olga Timofeeva, gnes Kiricsi and Bethany Fox More information
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British and Irish Emigrants and Exiles in Europe, 1603-1688
Edited by David Worthington This book comprises the first full-length comparison of Scottish, Irish, English and Welsh migration within Europe in the early modern period. The contributions demonstrate the fruitfulness of pursuing a comparative approach to seventeenthcentury British and Irish history. More information
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Swedish Naval Administration, 1521-1721

Jan Glete This is a book about how a peasant society created a large navy which was used to conquer and defend a Baltic mpire. It emphasises organisational capabilities rather than maritime skills as essential for early modern navies. More information
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Slaves and Warriors in Medieval Britain and Ireland, 800 -1200

David Wyatt Concentrating upon the lifestyle, attitudes and motivations of the slave-holders and slave-raiders, this book explores the activities and behavioural codes of Britain and Irelands warrior-centred societies c.800-1200 highlighting the significance of slavery for constructions of power, ethnic ... More information
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Sexuality, Law and Legal Practice and the Reformation in Norway
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Anne Irene Riisy This book argues the continuities between the medieval and early modern in Norway in regards to extramarital sexuality and the manner in which it was criminalised and punished, as well as the position of women within the law. More information
Between Betrothal and Bedding

Mia Korpiola Investigating the interaction and tension between Swedish and canonical marriage formation, and the later Lutheran influence, the book offers a case study of marriage formation as a process and the mechanisms of legal reception in medieval and Reformation Sweden. More information
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Youth and Age in the Medieval North

Edited by Shannon Lewis-Simpson This interdisciplinary volume explores social, cultural and biological definitions of youth and age specific to the medieval north, and changing mentalities towards youth and age as a result of political, cultural, and religious transformations in the north. More information
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Beyond the Catch
Edited by Louis Sicking and Darlene Abreu-Ferreira Drawing on archaeological and written sources, this collection of essays presents fascinating new interpretations in the history of the fisheries by highlighting the consequences of the northern fisheries through interdisciplinary approaches to various themes, including the environment, economy, ... More information
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The Empire of Cnut the Great
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Timothy Bolton Drawing on a wide range of types of evidence this book offers a fresh impression of the empire built by King Cnut (10161035) in England and Scandinavia, and offers insights into contemporary developments in the conceptions of this new dominion. More information
The Legend of St Brendan

J.S. Mackley The comparative study of the Latin and Anglo-Norman Versions of the Voyage of St Brendan offers an insight into the way that fantastic imagery was used to discuss sensitive theological issues in one of the most popular medieval narratives. More information
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Unpredictability and Presence
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Hans Jacob Orning This book applies a legal anthropological framework to high medieval Norwegian history. It formulates the question of state formation in a new and challenging way by showing how the king a substantial degree based his dominion on unpredictability and presence. More information
Britain and Poland-Lithuania

Edited by Richard Unger, with the Assistance of Jakub Basista Twenty-four papers deal with various aspects of the economies, politics, religion, art, and culture of Britain and Poland-Lithuania from the Middle Ages down to the Third Partition, illustrating unexpected similarities and long-standing ties between the two regions. More information
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Series: NW Volume: 36 Version: Hardback Publication Value: Bibliographic Set ISBN13: 9789004164291 Status: Available: In Print
Baltic Connections (3 vols.)
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Edited by Lennart Bes, Edda Frankot and Hanno Brand Covering almost 1000 archival collections in all countries around the Baltic Sea (including the Netherlands), this guide provides an essential tool for scholars studying the region's maritime, economic and diplomatic relations between 1450 and 1800. More information
Monstrous Fishes and the Mead-Dark Sea

Vicki Ellen Szabo Drawing on historical, legal, literary, ethnographic and archaeological evidence, this book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the use, acquisition and perception of whales in the medieval Norse North Atlantic world. More information
135.00$175.00
The Danish Resources c. 1000-1550

Nils Hybel and Bjrn Poulsen Drawing on more than a century of historical research and a multitude of primary research this pioneering work offers a wealth ofinformation about the development of Danish natural and human resources, rural life, urban industries, tax and commodity trade from 1000 to 1550. More information
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Guests in the House
Mats Roslund Based on the study of style transmission in medieval ceramics, the author interprets the shared cultural and political history of Slavs and Scandinavians 900 to 1300 AD. The reproduction of cultural identity is discussed in relation to changes in politics. More information
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A Spirited Exchange
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Henriette de Bruyn Kops This economic and social history assesses the impact of the coastal wine and brandy trade on the early modern French, Dutch, and Atlantic economies, and highlights the importance of interconnecting personal networks of Dutch, Sephardic Jewish, and New Christian merchants. More information
West over Sea

Edited by Beverly Ballin Smith, Simon Taylor and Gareth Williams This volume, prepared in tribute to Barbara E. Crawford, covers the subject of Viking expansion westwards to Britain, Ireland and the North Atlantic. The 30 papers are arranged in four groups: History and Cultural Contacts; The Church and the Cult of Saints; Archaeology, Material Culture and ... More information
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Denmark and the Crusades, 1400-1650

Janus Mller Jensen This ground-breaking study of the role of crusading in late-medieval and early modern Denmark argues that crusading had a tremendous impact on political and religious life in Scandinavia all through the Middle Ages, which continued long after the Reformation ostensibly should have put an end to ... More information
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St. Magns of Orkney

Haki Antonsson This book looks at the emergence of the cult of St Magns, earl of Orkney (d. 1117), and the literary corpus composed in his honour. Both aspects are examined from a wider Scandinavian and European perspective. More information
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Commerce and Print in the Early Reformation
John D. Fudge Focusing on print culture and links between propagandists, typographers, and northern Europe's merchant milieu, this book investigates dispersal and suppression of religious innovation in the 1520s and expands the interpretative scope for Reformation studies beyond national, political, or ... More information
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Kingship and State Formation in Sweden 1130-1290

Philip Line This book is the first treatment in English of the medieval Swedish kingdom in its formative period, the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It provides an overview of Scandinavian research on the subject and an analysis of all aspects of kingship and government. More information
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The Popes and the Baltic Crusades 1147-1254

Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt The Popes and the Baltic Crusades examines the formulation of papal policy on the crusades and missions in the Baltic region in the central Middle Ages and analyses why and how the crusade concept was extended from the Holy Land to the Baltic region. More information
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Christian IV and his Navy

Martin Bellamy During Christian IVs highly influential reign, the Danish navy grew to be one of the most significant if flawed navies in Europe.This book provides a detailed survey of its politics, administration and operation. More information
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The Brendan Legend

Edited by Glyn S. Burgess and Clara Strijbosch The Brendan Legend: Texts and Versions deals with the vast textual tradition relating to on the Irish Saint Brendan, known as 'The Navigator'. The book deals with the interrelated problems of the textual and literary embedding of Brendan texts and it highlights the versatility of textual ... More information
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Urban Politics and the British Civil Wars

Laura A.M. Stewart This work examines Edinburgh's contribution to the outbreak of the British civil wars and its importance in the establishment of the revolutionary Covenanting regime. Early modern urban culture, multiple monarchy and post-Reformation religious radicalism are key themes of the book. More information
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Power and the City in the Netherlandic World

Edited by Wayne te Brake and Wim Klooster The eleven wide-ranging essays in this volume covering the medieval and early modern periods explore how coercive power was established within, over, and by the cities of the Low Countries. They suggest a distinctive path of political development. More information
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The Image of Aleksandr Nevskiy in Medieval Russia

Mari Isoaho The present study examines the evolution of the image of Aleksandr Nevskiy in close connection with the dynamics of political and cultural history by demonstrating what influence the Life of Aleksandr Nevskiy had on popular historical consciousness in medieval Russia. More information
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Kinship and Clientage
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Alison Cathcart This study of clan society in the central and eastern Highlands during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries offers new insights into the nature of clanship and local society as well as its interaction with regional and national politics. More information
Coinage and History in the North Sea World, c. AD 500-1250

Edited by Barrie Cook and Gareth Williams This themed volume contains 28 papers by leading authorities on numismatics and monetary history. It covers a variety of topics concerning the design, use and circulation of coinage in northern Europe in the late fifth to early thirteenth centuries. More information
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Network North
Steve Murdoch Discussing a series of economic, confessional, political and espionage networks, this volume provides an illuminating study of network history in Northern Europe in the early modern period. The empirically researched chapters advance existing 'social network theory' into accessible historical ... More information
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Icelanders and the Kings of Norway

Patricia Pires Boulhosa The book discusses the relation between the Icelanders and the mediaeval Norwegian kings, as it appears in sagas and legal texts. By reassessing legal material and the sagas of Mruvallabk, it finds the Icelanders partly subjects of the king, and partly beyond his power. More information
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The Reign of Alexander II, 1214-49
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Edited by Richard D. Oram This nine-essay volume provides the first full-length, detailed exploration of the kingdom of Scotland during the reign of Alexander II (1214-49), and the most extensive analysis of this key state-builder and his policies. More information
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The Discovery of the Baltic

Nils Blomkvist A study of Europeanization in the Baltic Rim 1075-1225 AD, comparing the indigenous civilisations to the prevailing western one. A new approach to the periods narrative sources brings real peoples attitudes and daily toils to life in the midst of a change of epic dimensions. More information
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High Germans in the Low Countries

Donald J. Harreld This volume looks at the South German merchant community during Antwerp's Golden Age by examining German involvement in the social life of the city as well as tracing merchants' commercial activities. More information
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Russia's Foreign Trade and Economic Expansion in the Seventeenth Century

J.T. Kotilaine This work is the first comprehensive assessment of Russia's foreign trade flows and economic growth in the seventeenth century. By demonstrating the growing openness of the economy, it reveals a key element in Russia's rise to great power status. More information
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Viking Rus
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Wladyslaw Duczko This book offers a detailed survey of the history and culture of Scandinavians, known as Rus, living during the Viking Age in the Eastern Europe where they created not only a principality of Kiev but also several large proto-town centres and numerous rural settlements. More information
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Sagas, Saints and Settlements
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Edited by Gareth Williams and Paul Bibire This volume contains seven papers relating to Norse history and literature. Two cover issues of saga genre, two explore the relationship between sagas and medieval hagiography, and three consider aspects of the Norse settlement in Scotland from an interdisciplinary perspective. With ... More information
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Frederik II and the Protestant Cause
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Paul Douglas Lockhart This study of Danish foreign policy in the late sixteenth century examines the efforts of Denmarks King Frederik II (1559-88) to create an international alliance of European Protestants as protection against advances of Counter-Reformation Catholicism. More information
Queen Margrete I (1353-1412) and the Founding of the Nordic Union

Vivian Etting This book presents the fascinating story of Queen Margrete I and her rise to power in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, which culminated in the founding of the Nordic Union in 1397. Based upon the most central contemporary sources, the book gives a vivid picture of medieval society in Scandinavia. ... More information
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Reputation and Representation in Fifteenth-Century Europe
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Series: NW Volume: 7 Version: Hardback Publication Value: Primary Source ISBN13: 9789004131729 Status: Available: In Print
Edited by Douglas L. Biggs, Sharon D. Michalove and A. Compton Reeves This volume deals with political, military, social, architectural, and literary aspects of fifteenth-century England. The essays contained in the volume range across the century from some of the leading scholars currently working in the period. More information
Fagrskinna, A Catalogue of the Kings of Norway
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Alison Finlay A central text in the Old Norse genre of kings sagas is translated here for the first time. It covers the history of Norway from the ninth to the twelfth centuries and throws light on NorwegianIcelandic literary relations in the formative stage of saga writing. More information
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Families, Friends and Allies
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Heather J. Tanner This book provides a new model of political development in late ninth through midtwelfth century through an examination of the interrelationships among the counts of Boulogne and the neighboring counts of Picardy, Flanders, Normandy and England. More information
An Unofficial Alliance, Scotland and Sweden 1569-1654

Alexia Grosjean This study of an unofficial Scottish-Swedish alliance analyses how Scotland's provision of military and mercantile expertise for Sweden's imperial expansion was repaid during the Covenanting revolution (1638-1641) by the supply of international support and material aid unparalleled in the early ... More information
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Texts & Contexts of the Oldest Runic Inscriptions

Tineke Looijenga This source publication of all older runic inscriptions provides fascinating information about the origin and development of runic writing, together with the archaeological and historical contexts of the objects. Moreover elaborate readings and interpretations are given of the runic texts. More information
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The 'Mother of all Trades'

Milja van Tielhof This book aims to present a general history of the Amsterdam grain trade on the Baltic in the early-modern period, and concentrates particularly on the development and role of transaction costs. More information
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Traditions and Transformations in Late Medieval England
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Douglas Biggs, Sharon D. Michalove and A. Compton Reeves This volume deals with political, military, social, architectural, and literary aspects of fifteenth century England. The essays contained in the volume range across the century from some of the leading scholars currently working in the period. More information
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Tools, Weapons and Ornaments
Herbert Schutz The book examines the link between history and archeology derived from funerary and settlement materials in early Medieval Central Europe. The evidence demonstrates that the populations located to the north of the Roman frontiers were culturally aware societies with socio-political structures. More information
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The Northern World series - BRILL

Across the German Sea

Clerics and Clansmen

The Hanse in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Protestant Cosmopolitanism and Diplomatic Culture

modern diplomacy driven by interpersonal networks grounded in

Early Medieval Art and Archaeology in the Northern World

Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th to 18th Centuries

The Forgotten Crusaders

Emanuel Swedenborg, Secret Agent on Earth and in Heaven

Kings' Sagas and Norwegian History

Ideology and Power in the Viking and Middle Ages

High-Ranking Widows in Medieval Iceland and Yorkshire

Interfaces between Language and Culture in Medieval England

British and Irish Emigrants and Exiles in Europe, 1603-1688

Swedish Naval Administration, 1521-1721

Slaves and Warriors in Medieval Britain and Ireland, 800 -1200

Sexuality, Law and Legal Practice and the Reformation in Norway

Between Betrothal and Bedding

Youth and Age in the Medieval North

Beyond the Catch

The Empire of Cnut the Great

The Legend of St Brendan

Unpredictability and Presence

Britain and Poland-Lithuania

Baltic Connections (3 vols.)

Monstrous Fishes and the Mead-Dark Sea

The Danish Resources c. 1000-1550

Guests in the House

West over Sea

Denmark and the Crusades, 1400-1650

St. Magns of Orkney

Commerce and Print in the Early Reformation

Kingship and State Formation in Sweden 1130-1290

The Popes and the Baltic Crusades 1147-1254

Christian IV and his Navy

The Brendan Legend

Urban Politics and the British Civil Wars

Power and the City in the Netherlandic World

The Image of Aleksandr Nevskiy in Medieval Russia

Kinship and Clientage

Coinage and History in the North Sea World, c. AD 500-1250

Icelanders and the Kings of Norway

The Reign of Alexander II, 1214-49

The Discovery of the Baltic

High Germans in the Low Countries

Russia's Foreign Trade and Economic Expansion in the Seventeenth Century

Sagas, Saints and Settlements

Frederik II and the Protestant Cause

Queen Margrete I (1353-1412) and the Founding of the Nordic Union

Reputation and Representation in Fifteenth-Century Europe

Fagrskinna, A Catalogue of the Kings of Norway

Families, Friends and Allies

An Unofficial Alliance, Scotland and Sweden 1569-1654

Texts & Contexts of the Oldest Runic Inscriptions

The 'Mother of all Trades'

Traditions and Transformations in Late Medieval England

Tools, Weapons and Ornaments

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