- Authors:
- Editor:
- Callebaut, Dirk, Mařík, Jan, Maříková-Kubková, Jana
- Subtitle:
- The Vikings as European and global heritage
- Abstract:
- This paper presents a survey of contexts and places where Vikings are currently highlighted as a European cultural heritage, and discusses how this heritage is presented, and why so. The most significant contemporary importance of the Viking heritage, it is proposed, is not as a Scandinavian ancestral image, nor as a epitome of ruthless but enterprising barbarians, but as Europe’s most distinctive historical and archaeological heritage relating to the world-wide maritime expansion of the Early Middle Ages. As such, ‘Vikings’ are historical champions of cultural models beyond the vision of a lost Roman identity implied by the concept of a ‘Middle Age’.
- ISBN:
- 9789639911413
- Type:
- Conference paper
- Language:
- English
- Published in:
- Heritage Reinvents Europe, 2013, p. 81-86
- Main Research Area:
- Humanities
- Publication Status:
- Published
- Series:
- Eac Occasional Paper
- Review type:
- Undetermined
- Conference:
- Heritage reinvents Europe, 2013
- Publisher:
- Europae Archaeologia Consilium
- Submission year:
- 2013
- Scientific Level:
- Scientific
- ID:
- 2389262313
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