Description
The Viking Age: New Perspectives on History and Culture. Taught by Dr. Jennifer Paxton, this course explores the historical realities of the age beyond conventional stereotypes. Beginning with the raid on Lindisfarne in 793, the course examines the motivations for Viking expansion, from the social and political conditions of Scandinavia to their global interactions. The course challenges the simplistic image of Vikings as uncultured warriors and analyzes their complex roles as farmers, traders, explorers, and slavers from Europe to Constantinople, Russia, and even the Western Hemisphere. There is a particular emphasis on the role of women, examining the true place of violence and religion, and the impact of the spread of Christianity in transforming Viking society. Using archaeological evidence and historical texts, this course debunks myths such as horned helmets and examines how the Vikings interacted with civilizations such as the Islamic Caliphate and the Byzantine Empire through extensive trade networks. It also examines the fate of their settlements in Iceland, Greenland, and Vinland, and the reasons for their success or failure. Finally, this course provides a deep and balanced understanding of the causes of the Viking Age, the complex nature of their society, and the factors that brought this historical period to an end, showing that the Viking legacy went far beyond plunder and violence, to the formation of states, cities, and cultural transformations across Europe and beyond.
What you will learn
- Assessing the Vikings’ significant global influence by examining the areas under their influence near and far.
- Tracking invaders, traders, and migrants along sea and river routes.
- Study of early raids in Estonia, trading settlements in Kievan Rus, and the Varangian Guard in Constantinople.
- Tracing beaded, silver, and silk goods as they moved from the Islamic Caliphate and East Asia into Viking homes.
- Determine how Viking sailors navigated the rough waters of the Atlantic Ocean to establish settlements—both permanent and temporary—in North America.
- Re-evaluating Viking activities in England, Ireland and France using archaeological techniques such as stable isotope analysis and ancient DNA.
This course is suitable for people who:
- Interested in gaining a comprehensive and critical perspective beyond popular myths about the Viking Age and its people.
- They want to understand the complex roles of the Vikings as traders, raiders, settlers, and diplomats in a global context.
- Interested in learning about the life, power, and position of Viking women in a patriarchal society.
- They seek to analyze archaeological and textual evidence to reconstruct Viking life and challenge historical stereotypes.
- They want to know how Viking interactions with regions such as Russia, Ukraine, Byzantium, and the Islamic Caliphate contributed to the historical development of these regions.
Course details The Viking Age: New Perspectives on History and Culture
- Publisher: TheGreatCoursePlus
- Instructor: Jennifer Paxton
- Training level: Beginner to advanced
- Training duration: 6 hours and 42 minutes
- Number of lessons: 12
Course topics
- The Viking Age Begins
- The Viking Homelands
- The Vikings at War
- Viking Women: Fact and Fiction
- Religion and Myth among the Vikings
- The Viking Way of Death
- The Vikings in Eastern Europe
- The Vikings in Britain
- The Vikings in Ireland and France
- Vikings in Iceland, Greenland, and Vinland
- Viking Kings and Christian Conversion
- The Vikings in Popular Culture
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