"To a faithful friend, straight are the roads and short."—Odin, from the H?vam?l (c. 1000)
Friendship was the most important social bond in Iceland and Norway during the Viking Age and the early Middle Ages. Far more significantly than kinship ties, it defined relations between chieftains, and between chieftains and householders. In Viking Friendship, J?n Vi?ar Sigur?sson explores the various ways in which friendship tied Icelandic and Norwegian societies together, its role in power struggles and ending conflicts, and how it shaped religious beliefs and practices both before and after the introduction of Christianity.
Drawing on a wide range of Icelandic sagas and other sources, Sigur?sson details how loyalties between friends were established and maintained. The key elements of Viking friendship, he shows, were protection and generosity, which was most often expressed through gift giving and feasting. In a society without institutions that could guarantee support and security, these were crucial means of structuring mutual assistance. As a political force, friendship was essential in the decentralized Free State period in Iceland’s history (from its settlement about 800 until it came under Norwegian control in the years 1262–1264) as local chieftains vied for power and peace. In Norway, where authority was more centralized, kings attempted to use friendship to secure the loyalty of their subjects.
The strong reciprocal demands of Viking friendship also informed the relationship that individuals had both with the Old Norse gods and, after 1000, with Christianity’s God and saints. Addressing such other aspects as the possibility of friendship between women and the relationship between friendship and kinship, Sigur?sson concludes by tracing the decline of friendship as the fundamental social bond in Iceland as a consequence of Norwegian rule.
Автор: Karl Ittmann Название: Work, Gender and Family in Victorian England ISBN: 0333604792 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333604793 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 20962.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This study examines the impact of the Industrial Revolution upon the family and questions the extent to which ordinary working men and women shared the "Victorian values" of the middle-class. The book focuses on Bradford as its case study.
Автор: Zita Eva Rohr Название: Yolande of Aragon (1381-1442) Family and Power ISBN: 1349581291 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349581290 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11179.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Yolande of Aragon is one of the most intriguing of late medieval queens who contrived to be everywhere and nowhere, operating seamlessly from backstage and center stage. She is acknowledged as having been shrewd and intelligent - an eminence grise whose political and diplomatic agency secured the throne of France for her son-in-law, Charles VII."
Автор: Carroll, Stuart Название: Martyrs and Murderers ISBN: 0199596794 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199596799 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 2058.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Hailed as "entertaining" and "nuanced" by The Economist, Martyrs and Murderers tells the story of three generations of treacherous, bloodthirsty power-brokers. One of the richest and most powerful families in sixteenth-century France, the House of Guise played a pivotal role in the history of Europe. Among the staunchest opponents of the Reformation, they whipped up religious bigotry throughout France. They overthrew the king, ruled Scotland for nearly 20 years through Mary Queen of Scots, plotted to invade England and overthrow Elizabeth I, and ended the century by unleashing the bloody Wars of Religion, before succumbing in a counter-revolution that made them martyrs for the Catholic cause. The history of the Guise family is sensational but true. Though parts of the story are familiar--such as their crucial role in the murder of 4,000 Protestants in the infamous Massacre of Saint Bartholomew--the full scope of their influence has never before been told. Stuart Carroll unravels the legends about this cultivated, charismatic, and violent dynasty, and challenges traditional assumptions about one of Europe's most turbulent eras.
Автор: Cornish, William (herchel Smith Professor Of Intellectual Property Law, University Of Cambridge) Anderson, J Stuart (professor In The Faculty Of Law A Название: John nichols`s the progresses and public processions of queen elizabeth i ISBN: 0393337766 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780393337761 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 2691.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the National Book Award New York Times Bestseller #1 on Esquire`s List of the 50 Best Biographies of All Time "[A] commanding and important book." -Jill Lepore, The New Yorker
Автор: Joanne M. Ferraro Название: A Cultural History of Marriage: Volumes 1-6 ISBN: 1350001910 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350001916 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 75240.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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How have ideas of marriage evolved in Western culture? How has its influence changed, and been shaped by its social and cultural conditions?
In a work that spans 2,500 years, these ambitious questions are addressed by 48 experts, each contributing their overview of a theme applied to a period in history. The volumes describe the role of marriage, its contributions to society, and how it engages with matters of religion, law, society and love. Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole, and to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six. The six volumes cover: 1. - Antiquity (500 BCE - 500 CE); 2. - Medieval Age (500 - 1450); 3. - Renaissance and Early Modern Age (1400 - 1650); 4. - Age of Enlightenment (1650 - 1800); 5. - Age of Empire (1800 - 1920); 6. - Modern Age (1920 - 2000+). Themes (and chapter titles) are: Courtship and Rite; Religion, State and Law; Kinship and Social Networks; the Family Economy; Love and Sex; the Breaking of Vows; and Representations of Marriage. The page extent is approximately 1,728pp with c. 240 illustrations. Each volume opens with a series preface and an introduction, and concludes with Notes, Bibliography, List of Contributors and an Index.
Автор: Ross D. Parke, Glen H. Elder, Jr Название: Children in Changing Worlds: Sociocultural and Temporal Perspectives ISBN: 1108404464 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108404464 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book applies a historical, cultural, and life-course developmental framework to understand the factors affecting how children adjust to social, economic, and cultural challenges. Written by eminent scholars, it is ideal for researchers and graduate students in developmental and educational psychology, sociology, and anthropology of childhood.
Автор: Mainz Название: Days of Glory? ISBN: 1137542934 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137542939 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 10760.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book examines a range of visual images of military recruitment to explore changing notions of glory, or of gloire, during the French Revolution. It raises questions about how this event re-orientated notions of ‘citizenship’ and of service to ‘la Patrie’. The opening lines of the Marseillaise are grandly declamatory: Allons enfants de la Patrie/le jour de gloire est arriv?! or, in English: Arise, children of the Homeland/The day of glory has arrived! What do these words mean in their later eighteenth-century French context? What was gloire and how was it changed by the revolutionary process? This military song, later adopted as the national anthem, represents a deceptively unifying moment of collective engagement in the making of the modern French nation. Valerie Mainz questions this through a close study of visual imagery dealing with the issue of military recruitment. From neoclassical painting to popular prints, such images typically dealt with the shift from civilian to soldier, focusing on how men, and not women, were called to serve the Homeland.
Описание: This book examines a range of visual images of military recruitment to explore changing notions of glory, or of gloire, during the French Revolution. This military song, later adopted as the national anthem, represents a deceptively unifying moment of collective engagement in the making of the modern French nation.
Автор: Maura O`Connor Название: The Romance of Italy and the English Imagination ISBN: 0312210868 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312210861 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 16769.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction, diplomats and travellers, English nation and Italian nation, Maura O`Connor shows us the extent to which imagination, pleasure and politics were intimately interwoven in her story of the English middle-class fascination with the Italian peninsula from the early 1800s through to the 1860s.
Название: Imaging Eden: Photographers Discover the Everglades ISBN: 194208403X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781942084037 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 7472.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Though they were ceded to the federal government in 1821, it was not until the beginning of the twentieth century that the Everglades were systematically depicted in photographs. Imaging Eden presents an overview of the pictures that have formed our understanding of the Everglades, one of the most contested and unique environments on the planet, and new approaches to photographing the vast wetlands system. Using vernacular images as well as works by such celebrated photographers as Walker Evans, Marian Post Wolcott, Eliot Porter, James Balog and Clyde Butcher, Imaging Eden provides a framework to contextualize four contemporary commissioned projects. Amsterdam-based artist Bert Teunissen, American photographer and artist Gerald Slota, Korean-American Jung Jin Lee and Magnum photographer Jim Goldberg working in collaboration with Jordan Stein have been tasked with discovering the Everglades on their own terms, through their widely differing sensibilities and with their unique visual vocabularies.
Автор: Wells Название: Diagnostic Imaging Of Infants And Children ISBN: 007181003X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780071810036 Издательство: McGraw-Hill Рейтинг: Цена: 44430.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Does anyone ever stop and think what they`re about to do? How their action can affect people`s lives? I heard once or twice that your decisions are like a domino effect, one decision can affect many. Why make choices that you know you will regret? Why put people through pain? Can you actually say that you ever thought about how many people you hurt? Explain in so many words why we treat people like they don`t mean anything. Many of us are the victims in cases like these. Maybe you are the victimizer, in that case describe why you felt that treating someone so bad would make you feel better? Well, did it? Maybe you should look in the mirror and ask if you are truly happy with being yourself? Or maybe you feel the need to take out all the pain you bottle up on someone who doesn`t deserve it. Maybe it`s just me but I am done with thinking of all the reasons why people get involved in situations they can`t dig themselves out of, well here is my story...
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