Anglo-Saxon & Vikings: Unearthing Northern Europe’s Past
Journey through Northern European early history with our Anglo-Saxon & Viking Archaeology books. These monographs provide detailed excavation reports of the Viking and Anglo-Saxon settlements. For those interested more broadly in material culture and artifact analysis, our Antiques & Collectibles subject area offers complementary texts.
Presents the results of a major excavation and landscape project examining one of the earliest documented monastic establishments in Anglo-Saxon Kent at Lyminge, offering new perspectives on the role played by monasteries in the Christianisation of early medieval peoples and landscapes in the 7th-9th centuries
by Brian Ayers, Clare Haynes, Sandy Heslop and Helen Lunnon
Full Price: $49.99
Discount Price: $39.99
ISBN: 9798888571828
Pub Date: 2026-01-31
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Oxbow Books
544 Pages
A beautifully illustrated, detailed account of all 56 parish churches recorded in Norwich by AD 1200, of which 31 remain standing. Examines each church from a variety of viewpoints – archaeological, architectural, art historical and antiquarian, in the historical context of the development of Norwich from the 10th to the mid-16th centuries.
The Long Settlement of Viking Age and Medieval Skagafjörður, North Iceland
Edited by John M Steinberg, Douglas Bolender, Kathryn A Catlin, Brian N Damiata and Guðný Zoëga
Full Price: $80.00
Discount Price: $64.00
ISBN: 9781789259674
Pub Date: 2025-06-30
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Oxbow Books
224 Pages
Traces the development of Viking and medieval farmstead settlement patterns in Northern Iceland and the impact of Christianity as revealed by household cemeteries.
Presents a summary of the excavations at Bornais and Cille Pheadair, providing an introduction to the Viking colonisation and Norse occupation of the Western Isles/Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
Edited by Michèle Hayeur Smith and Alexandra Sanmark
Full Price: $46.00
Discount Price: $36.80
ISBN: 9798888571866
Pub Date: 2025-03-21
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
208 Pages
Combines evidence from Icelandic sagas, law codes, poems, runic inscriptions and archaeology to provide and interpret direct evidence about Viking Age and Norse women, their status, roles in religion, place in law, and agency within a strongly male dominated society, examining gender and identity as it was worn, lived, and created.
Halls, Hierarchies and Social Dynamics in Late Iron Age and Viking Age Denmark
Edited by Dr Anna Severine Beck, Maja Kildetoft Schultz and Dr Jens Ulriksen
Full Price: $90.00
Discount Price: $72.00
ISBN: 9798888571491
Pub Date: 2025-02-28
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Oxbow Books
480 Pages
Presents details of the remarkable structures and material culture of Strøby Toftegård, Zealand, revealing it to be a high status, Viking period magnate farm settlement
Edited by Leszek Gardeła, Sophie Bønding and Peter Pentz
Price: $95.00
ISBN: 9781789259537
Pub Date: 2023-08-31
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Oxbow Books
528 Pages
Offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and contextualised investigation of the figure of the völva, situating her in the wider context of pre-Christian Nordic religion, culture, and ritual practices.
Examines textile production in Norway and the north Atlantic region from the Viking period to High Middle Ages, based on evidence from grave goods and farming tools.
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