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Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them

Author : Nancy Marie Brown
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466879130
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them written by Nancy Marie Brown and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fascinating tale of discovery and mystery.” —The Minneapolis Star Tribune In the early 1800's, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved from walrus ivory. The Lewis Chessmen are probably the most famous chess pieces in the world. Harry played Wizard's Chess with them in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Housed at the British Museum, they are among its most visited and beloved objects. Questions abounded: Who carved them? Where? Nancy Marie Brown's Ivory Vikings explores these mysteries by connecting medieval Icelandic sagas with modern archaeology, art history, forensics, and the history of board games. In the process, Ivory Vikings presents a vivid history of the 400 years when the Vikings ruled the North Atlantic, and the sea-road connected countries and islands we think of as far apart and culturally distinct: Norway and Scotland, Ireland and Iceland, and Greenland and North America. The story of the Lewis chessmen brings from the shadows an extraordinarily talented woman artist of the twelfth century: Margret the Adroit of Iceland.

Ivory Vikings

Author : Nancy Marie Brown
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1137279370
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Ivory Vikings written by Nancy Marie Brown and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1800's, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved from walrus ivory. Norse netsuke, each face individual, each full of quirks, the Lewis Chessmen are probably the most famous chess pieces in the world. Harry played Wizard's Chess with them in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Housed at the British Museum, they are among its most visited and beloved objects. Questions abounded: Who carved them? Where? Nancy Marie Brown's Ivory Vikings explores these mysteries by connecting medieval Icelandic sagas with modern archaeology, art history, forensics, and the history of board games. In the process, Ivory Vikings presents a vivid history of the 400 years when the Vikings ruled the North Atlantic, and the sea-road connected countries and islands we think of as far apart and culturally distinct: Norway and Scotland, Ireland and Iceland, and Greenland and North America. The story of the Lewis chessmen explains the economic lure behind the Viking voyages to the west in the 800s and 900s. And finally, it brings from the shadows an extraordinarily talented woman artist of the twelfth century: Margret the Adroit of Iceland.

The Lewis Chessmen Unmasked

Author : David H. Caldwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781905267941
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book The Lewis Chessmen Unmasked written by David H. Caldwell and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written to accompany a travelling exhibition about new research on the Lewis chessmen. National Museums Scotland and the British Museum partnered in creating the exhibition, The Lewis Chessmen: Unmasked.

Song of the Vikings

Author : Nancy Marie Brown
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1137073713
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Song of the Vikings written by Nancy Marie Brown and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much like Greek and Roman mythology, Norse myths are still with us. Famous storytellers from JRR Tolkien to Neil Gaiman have drawn their inspiration from the long-haired, mead-drinking, marauding and pillaging Vikings. Their creator is a thirteenth-century Icelandic chieftain by the name of Snorri Sturluson. Like Homer, Snorri was a bard, writing down and embellishing the folklore and pagan legends of medieval Scandinavia. Unlike Homer, Snorri was a man of the world—a wily political power player, one of the richest men in Iceland who came close to ruling it, and even closer to betraying it... In Song of the Vikings, award-winning author Nancy Marie Brown brings Snorri Sturluson's story to life in a richly textured narrative that draws on newly available sources.

The Abacus and the Cross

Author : Nancy Marie Brown
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465022952
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Abacus and the Cross written by Nancy Marie Brown and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The medieval Catholic Church, widely considered a source of intolerance and inquisitorial fervor, was not anti-science during the Dark Ages -- in fact, the pope in the year 1000 was the leading mathematician and astronomer of his day. Called "The Scientist Pope," Gerbert of Aurillac rose from peasant beginnings to lead the church. By turns a teacher, traitor, kingmaker, and visionary, Gerbert is the first Christian known to teach math using the nine Arabic numerals and zero. In The Abacus and the Cross, Nancy Marie Brown skillfully explores the new learning Gerbert brought to Europe. A fascinating narrative of one remarkable math teacher, The Abacus and the Cross will captivate readers of history, science, and religion alike.

The Real Valkyrie

Author : Nancy Marie Brown
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250200830
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Real Valkyrie written by Nancy Marie Brown and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Stacy Schiff’s Cleopatra, Brown lays to rest the hoary myth that Viking society was ruled by men and celebrates the dramatic lives of female Viking warriors “Once again, Brown brings Viking history to vivid, unexpected life—and in the process, turns what we thought we knew about Norse culture on its head. Superb.” —Scott Weidensaul, author of New York Times bestselling A World on the Wing "Magnificent. It captured me from the very first page." —Pat Shipman, author of The Invaders In 2017, DNA tests revealed to the collective shock of many scholars that a Viking warrior in a high-status grave in Birka, Sweden was actually a woman. The Real Valkyrie weaves together archaeology, history, and literature to imagine her life and times, showing that Viking women had more power and agency than historians have imagined. Nancy Marie Brown uses science to link the Birka warrior, whom she names Hervor, to Viking trading towns and to their great trade route east to Byzantium and beyond. She imagines her life intersecting with larger-than-life but real women, including Queen Gunnhild Mother-of-Kings, the Viking leader known as The Red Girl, and Queen Olga of Kyiv. Hervor’s short, dramatic life shows that much of what we have taken as truth about women in the Viking Age is based not on data, but on nineteenth-century Victorian biases. Rather than holding the household keys, Viking women in history, law, saga, poetry, and myth carry weapons. These women brag, “As heroes we were widely known—with keen spears we cut blood from bone.” In this compelling narrative Brown brings the world of those valkyries and shield-maids to vivid life.

The Far Traveler

Author : Nancy Marie Brown
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156033978
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (339 download)

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Download or read book The Far Traveler written by Nancy Marie Brown and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brown's enthusiasm is infectious as she re-teaches us our history."--The Boston Globe Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even after archaeologists found a Viking longhouse in Newfoundland, no one believed that the details of Gudrid's story were true. Then, in 2001, a team of scientists discovered what may have been this pioneering woman's last house, buried under a hay field in Iceland, just where the sagas suggested it could be. Joining scientists experimenting with cutting-edge technology and the latest archaeological techniques, and tracing Gudrid's steps on land and in the sagas, Nancy Marie Brown reconstructs a life that spanned--and expanded--the bounds of the then-known world. She also sheds new light on the society that gave rise to a woman even more extraordinary than legend has painted her and illuminates the reasons for its collapse. "Brown rightly leaves scholarly work to scholars. Instead, her account presents an enthusiastic appreciation of her education in how fieldwork and literature offer insights into the past."--The Seattle Times "[Brown has] a lovely ear for storytelling."--Los Angeles Times Book Review NANCY MARIE BROWN is the author of A Good Horse Has No Color and Mendel in the Kitchen. She lives in Vermont with her husband, the writer Charles Fergus.

Signs and Symbols

Author : Adrian Frutiger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Signs and Symbols written by Adrian Frutiger and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the elements of a sign, and looks at pictograms, alphabets, calligraphy, monograms, text type, numerical signs, symbols, and trademarks.

Hereward the Wake

Author : Charles Kingsley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Hereward the Wake written by Charles Kingsley and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Atlas of Atlases

Author : Philip Parker
Publisher : Liber Historica
ISBN 13 : 0711268053
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Atlas of Atlases written by Philip Parker and published by Liber Historica. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavishly illustrated look at the most important atlases in history and the cartographers who made them.

A Popular History of Ireland

Author : Thomas D'Arcy McGee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Popular History of Ireland written by Thomas D'Arcy McGee and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

From Asgard to Valhalla

Author : Heather O'Donoghue
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350252824
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book From Asgard to Valhalla written by Heather O'Donoghue and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Asgard to Valhalla takes readers deep inside Odin's cavernous hall and tells of the adventures, tragedies and lessons of the Viking Gods. Here, Heather O'Donoghue skillfully uncovers both the history and legacy of these myths to provide the authoritative student text on Old Norse mythology. From the magnificent tales of A Song of Ice and Fire and the supernatural wonders of Valkyries to Tolkien's Riders of Rohan and Marvel's mighty Thor, Norse mythology is a fundamental part of western culture. Drawing from a wealth of sources and scholarly debates, this fully-updated and expanded 2nd edition offers both an engaging survey of the Old Norse myths and an accessible introduction to how such strange and fragmentary material has been seized, repurposed and at times abused throughout the centuries. Notably, this important and timely study explores how Old Norse mythology has been – and continues to be – weaponized by far right movements across the world. Containing 2 brand new chapters on post-medieval reception, 30 illustrations for a stronger visual context and pedagogical updates throughout to aid further study, this new edition of From Asgard to Valhalla: The Remarkable History of the Norse Myths is a vital resource for all students of Old Norse mythology.

Fashion, New Edition

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0744022827
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Fashion, New Edition written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive guide to the history of fashion. From Ancient Egypt and Marie Antionette to Alexander McQueen and Chanel, this visually stunning fashion design book charts the evolution of clothing and shows how every generation reinvents fashion! The perfect fashion coffee table book! Here’s what you’ll find inside: • Covers the most important fashion periods in vivid detail, from ancient times to the present day, in extensive catalog spreads • From a crinoline to a Givenchy gown, specially photographed “virtual tours” of classic pieces spotlight the details that make up a masterpiece • Profiles showcase the key styles and works of trailblazing designers, describing how they have influenced the clothes we wear • Beautiful double-page images from fashion archives show how people have embraced fashion in every era and place fashion in its cultural context The fashion industry is yours to explore! Packed with a dazzling combination of original fashion plates, archive images and commissioned photography, Fashion takes you on a fabulous tour across the centuries! It catalogs the history of what people wear — revealing how Western fashion has been influenced by design from around the world — and celebrating everything from costumes to haute couture. Now fully revised and updated, this lavishly illustrated book about fashion includes recent subjects of interest including the increased role of social media, fast fashion, sustainable fashion, and the drive for improved diversity and beauty ideals. The illustrated glossary of technical terms and a comprehensive index help make this page-turning fashion book an indispensable work of reference for any fashion student or fashionista’s shelf. Look out for more titles in The Definitive Visual Guide series from DK. Experience the power of art and take a guided tour of the world’s most influential paintings in Art, or celebrate the history and evolution of design movements in Design.

Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race

Author : T. W. Rolleston
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race written by T. W. Rolleston and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race by T.W. Rolleston is about a variety of myths about a group of people now considered the Bretons, the Cornish, the Irish, the Manx, the Scots, and the Welsh. Excerpt: "CHAPTER I: THE CELTS IN ANCIENT HISTORY . . . 7 CHAPTER II: THE RELIGION OF THE CELTS . . . . 36 CHAPTER III: THE IRISH INVASION MYTHS . . . . . 75 CHAPTER IV: THE EARLY MILESIAN KINGS . . . . 120 CHAPTER V: TALES OF THE ULTONIAN CYCLE . . 148 CHAPTER VI: TALES OF THE OSSIANIC CYCLE . . . 215 CHAPTER VII: THE VOYAGE OF MAELDUN . . . . . 265 CHAPTER VIII: MYTHS AND TALES OF THE CYMRY 284."

Poland

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Poland written by and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ancient Greece and Rome in Videogames

Author : Ross Clare
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135015721X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Greece and Rome in Videogames written by Ross Clare and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents an original framework for the study of video games that use visual materials and narrative conventions from ancient Greece and Rome. It focuses on the culturally rich continuum of ancient Greek and Roman games, treating them not just as representations, but as functional interactive products that require the player to interpret, communicate with and alter them. Tracking the movement of such concepts across different media, the study builds an interconnected picture of antiquity in video games within a wider transmedial environment. Ancient Greece and Rome in Videogames presents a wide array of games from several different genres, ranging from the blood-spilling violence of god-killing and gladiatorial combat to meticulous strategizing over virtual Roman Empires and often bizarre adventures in pseudo-ancient places. Readers encounter instances in which players become intimately engaged with the “epic mode” of spectacle in God of War, moments of negotiation with colonised lands in Rome: Total War and Imperium Romanum, and multi-layered narratives rich with ancient traditions in games such as Eleusis and Salammbo. The case study approach draws on close analysis of outstanding examples of the genre to uncover how both representation and gameplay function in such “ancient games”.

Cass Timberlane

Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cass Timberlane written by Sinclair Lewis and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-09-09 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the complexities of small-town life in Sinclair Lewis's ""Cass Timberlane."". This thought-provoking novel explores the personal and social struggles of a Midwestern judge, offering a deep dive into the nuances of human relationships and societal expectations. As Lewis delves into the life of Cass Timberlane, uncover the intricate dynamics of a man caught between his ambitions and his personal ideals. The story provides a vivid portrayal of the challenges faced by individuals in a rapidly changing society. But here's a question that will keep you intrigued: How does one man's journey reflect the broader struggles of an entire community? Lewis's narrative invites readers to consider the impact of personal choices on both individual lives and societal norms. Explore the layers of this engaging novel, where each chapter offers insights into the moral and emotional dilemmas faced by its characters. Lewis's compelling storytelling brings to life the intricacies of human nature and social responsibility. Are you ready to delve into the complexities of life and society with ""Cass Timberlane""? Engage with short, impactful paragraphs that illuminate the challenges and triumphs of a man navigating the expectations of his world. The novel's rich character development and social commentary offer a thought-provoking reading experience. Don't miss the chance to explore this classic novel's insightful portrayal of small-town life. Purchase ""Cass Timberlane"" today, and immerse yourself in Sinclair Lewis's masterful exploration of personal and societal dynamics. Seize the opportunity to own a compelling piece of literary history. Get ""Cass Timberlane"" now and experience a powerful narrative that resonates with timeless themes.