The Hostages of the Northmen From the Viking Age to the Middle Ages
"The aim of this book is to investigate the taking and giving of hostages in peace processes during the Viking Age and early Middle Ages in Scandinavia and adjacent areas. Scandinavia has been absent in previous research about hostages from the perspectives of legal and social history, which ha...
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| Language: | English |
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Stockholm
Stockholm University Press
2019
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| Series: | Stockholm Studies in Comparative Religion
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| Online Access: | Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication Open Access: DOAB, download the publication |
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