Audiobook The Vikings

Vikings, The Teaching Company
(36 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)
Taught by Kenneth W. Harl
Tulane University
Ph.D., Yale University
Чрезвычайно увлекательное повествование о "людях Севера", которые держали в страхе всю Европу в пору раннего средневековья. Отдельно рассмотрено влияние викингов на историю древнерусского государства. Must listen!

As explorers and traders, the Vikings played a decisive role in the formation of Latin Christendom, and particularly of Western Europe.

In this course, you will study the Vikings not only as warriors, but also in other roles for which they were equally extraordinary: merchants, artists, kings, raiders, seafarers, shipbuilders, and creators of a remarkable literature of myths and sagas.

32kbs, 18 parts (approx. 14mb each) + Course Guidebook.
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Course Lecture Titles

1. The Vikings in Medieval History
2. Land and People of Medieval Scandinavia
3. Scandinavian Society in the Bronze Age
4. Scandinavia in the Celtic and Roman Ages
5. The Age of Migrations
6. The Norse Gods
7. Runes, Poetry, and Visual Arts
8. Legendary Kings and Heroes
9. A Revolution in Shipbuilding
10. Warfare and Society in the Viking Age
11. Merchants and Commerce in the Viking Age
12. Christendom on the Eve of the Viking Age
13. Viking Raids on the Carolingian Empire
14. The Duchy of Normandy
15. Viking Assault on England
16. The Danelaw
17. Viking Assault on Ireland
18. Norse Kings of Dublin and Ireland
19. The Settlement of Iceland
20. Iceland—A Frontier Republic
21. Skaldic Poetry and Sagas
22. Western Voyages to Greenland and Vinland
23. Swedes in the Baltic Sea and Russia
24. The Road to Byzantium
25. From Varangians into Russians
26. Transformation of Scandinavian Society
27. St. Anskar and the First Christian Missions
28. Formation of the Kingdom of Denmark
29. Cnut the Great
30. Collapse of Cnut's Empire
31. Jarls and Sea Kings of Norway
32. St. Olaf of Norway
33. Kings of the Swedes and Goths
34. Christianization and Economic Change
35. From Vikings to Crusaders
36. The Viking Legacy