In this volume Chris Callow provides a critical reading of the evidence for changes in Iceland’s socio-political structures from its colonisation to the 1260s
Historians spend a lot of time thinking about violence: bloodshed and feats of heroism punctuate practically every narration of the past. Yet historians have be
This book investigates the institutions and practices of education which lay behind medieval Icelandic literature, as well as behind many other aspects of medie