Dan’s research and book list
The Vikings – The Background to a Fierce and Fascinating Civilization
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Vikings at War
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The Age of Faith: A History of Medieval Civilization-Christian, Islamic, and Judaic-From Constantine to Dante : A.D. 325-1300
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History of the Archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen
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The Varangians: In God’s Holy Fire (New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture)
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Scandinavia in the Age of Vikings
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The Russian Primary Chronicle: Laurentian Text
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Medieval Warfare: History of the Art of War, Volume III
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Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
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River Kings: The Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads
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Vikings: An Encyclopedia of Conflict, Invasions, and Raids
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A History of the Art of War in the Middle Ages: 378-1278Ad (Greenhill Military Paperback)
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The Viking Wars: War and Peace in King Alfred’s Britain: 789 – 955
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Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
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A History of the Vikings
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Early Medieval Europe, 300-1000 (Macmillan History of Europe, 4)
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The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe
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Reimagining Europe: Kievan Rus’ in the Medieval World, 988–1146 (Harvard Historical Studies)
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The Harper Encyclopedia of Military History
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The Forge of Christendom (text only) 1st (First) edition by T. Holland
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Warfare, Raiding and Defence in Early Medieval Britain
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Maurice’s Strategikon: Handbook of Byzantine Military Strategy (The Middle Ages Series)
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The Alexiad (Penguin Classics)
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The Saga of the Volsungs: With the Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok (Hackett Classics)
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Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
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Men of Terror: A Comprehensive Analysis of Viking Combat
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The Barbarian Invasions: History of the Art of War, Volume II
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Armies of the Dark Ages
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
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The History of Leo the Deacon: Byzantine Military Expansion in the Tenth Century by Alice-Mary Talbot (January 01,2005)
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The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
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Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization – A Central Asia Nonfiction Masterpiece About Genghis Khan and the Huns
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The Lost World of Byzantium
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Ibn Fadlan’s Journey To Russia
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The Kingdom of Rus’ (Past Imperfect)
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A Short History of Byzantium by John Julius Norwich (1997-03-04)
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Three Byzantine Military Treatises (Dumbarton Oaks Texts)
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Heimskringla: or, The Lives of the Norse Kings (Dover Literature: Biographical)
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Annals of Ulster: Otherwise, … Annals of Senat; Volume 2
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Empires of the Normans: Conquerors of Europe
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The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England: 400 – 1066
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Northmen: The Viking Saga, AD 793-1241
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Swein Forkbeard’s Invasions and the Danish Conquest of England, 991-1017 (Warfare in History, 15)
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The Viking Diaspora (The Medieval World)
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The Vikings (Peoples of the Ancient World)
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Cnut the Great (The English Monarchs Series)
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Old Norse Mythology (World Mythology in Theory and Everyday Life)
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The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire
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Deeds of the Saxons (Medieval Texts in Translation)
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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (Bloomsbury Revelations)
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1. The Martial Society: Aspects of Warriors, Fortifications and Social Change in Scandinavia by Lena Holmquist Olausson, Michael Olausson
2. New Aspects on Viking-age Urbanism C. AD 750-1100 by Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson, Lena Holmquist Olausson, Sven Kalmring
