Dr Eleanor Barraclough - Hidden Histories of the Viking Age - Wed 22nd July 1.30pm
A comb, preserved in a sacrificial bog, engraved with the earliest traces of a new writing system. A pagan shrine deep beneath a lava field with offerings made to a fire giant. A note from an angry wife to a husband too long at the tavern. Doodles on birch-bark, made by an imaginative child. From tiny embers such as these, Eleanor Barraclough blows back to life the vast, rich and complex world of the Vikings. These are not just the stories of kings, raiders and saga heroes. Here are the lives of ordinary people: the merchants, children, artisans, enslaved people, seers, travellers and storytellers who shaped the medieval Nordic world. Here are the day-to-day lives of an extraordinary culture that spanned centuries and spread from its Scandinavian heartlands to the remote fjords of Greenland, the Arctic wastelands, the waterways and steppes of Eurasia, all the way to the Byzantine Empire and Islamic Caliphate
Dr Eleanor Barraclough is a historian, broadcaster and author. Her latest book, Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age, was shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction, and chosen as a Times History Book of the Year. She is a BBC New Generation Thinker (although quite an old one now), and Reader in Public History at Bath Spa University.
http://www.eleanorbarraclough.com/
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A comb, preserved in a sacrificial bog, engraved with the earliest traces of a new writing system. A pagan shrine deep beneath a lava field with offerings made to a fire giant. A note from an angry wife to a husband too long at the tavern. Doodles on birch-bark, made by an imaginative child. From tiny embers such as these, Eleanor Barraclough blows back to life the vast, rich and complex world of the Vikings. These are not just the stories of kings, raiders and saga heroes. Here are the lives of ordinary people: the merchants, children, artisans, enslaved people, seers, travellers and storytellers who shaped the medieval Nordic world. Here are the day-to-day lives of an extraordinary culture that spanned centuries and spread from its Scandinavian heartlands to the remote fjords of Greenland, the Arctic wastelands, the waterways and steppes of Eurasia, all the way to the Byzantine Empire and Islamic Caliphate
Dr Eleanor Barraclough is a historian, broadcaster and author. Her latest book, Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age, was shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction, and chosen as a Times History Book of the Year. She is a BBC New Generation Thinker (although quite an old one now), and Reader in Public History at Bath Spa University.
http://www.eleanorbarraclough.com/
Book signing available
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