Violence as a Lens to Viking Societies: A Comparison of Norway and Denmark
Jan Bill,
David Jacobson,
Susanne Nagel
et al.
Abstract:Comparing Viking Age Norway and Denmark, the article examines the primary proposition that as centers of authority become progressively more robust, violence will be proportionately contained. The article introduces a new approach in using indications of violence as a focal point to elicit broader social practices. The disciplines employed in this study – archaeology, osteology, philology, and sociology – are used together in the study of covariance of different indicators across a societal range. The indicato… Show more
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