| ISBN13: | 9780367628628 |
| ISBN10: | 0367628627 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 262 pages |
| Size: | 234x156 mm |
| Weight: | 640 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 34 Illustrations, black & white; 33 Halftones, black & white; 1 Line drawings, black & white |
| 634 |
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Viking Heritage and History in Europe
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Viking Heritage and History in Europe presents new research and perspectives on the use of the Vikings in public history, especially in relation to museums, re-creation, and re-enactment in a European context.
Viking Heritage and History in Europe presents new research and perspectives on the use of the Vikings in public history, especially in relation to museums, re-creation, and re-enactment in a European context.
Taking a critical heritage approach, the volume provides new insights into the re-creation of history, imagining the past, interpretation, ambivalence of authenticity, authority of History, remembrance and memory, medievalism, and public history. Highlighting the complexity of the field of public history today, the fourteen chapters all engage with questions of historical authenticity and authority. The volume also critically examines the public?s reception, engagement with, and interpretation of the Viking Age and the concepts of who these individuals were. Each chapter illuminates an aspect of these themes in relation to museums, leisure activities, politics, tourism, re-enactment, and popular culture ? all from the vantage point of
Viking cultural heritage.
Viking Heritage and History in Europe is one of the first volumes to examine the use and role of the Vikings within the field of public history, both past and present. The book will be of interest to those engaged in the study of heritage, public history, history, the Vikings, vikingism, medievalism, and media history.
1. The Mythopoetic Viking in European Cultural Heritage; Section I: Viking Tourism, Living-history, and Re-enactment as European Cultural Heritage; 2. Cross-Cultural Contact, the Tourist Gaze and Viking Heritage Spaces; 3. Viking Hiking and other Time Travel; 4. Vikings in Historical Pageants and Public Events; 5. Viking Re-enactment; Section II: Perspectives on Vikings in European Popular Culture; 6. Towards Inclusive Interpretations; 7. Alcohol Consumption, Masculinity, and the Modern Viking; 8. Viking and Old Norse Memoryscapes in Comics; 9. Vikings and Gaming: Cultural Representations of the North in Video Games;Section III: Vikings in European Museums, Heritage, and Politics; 10. Reconstructing Viking Ships in European Cultural Heritage Institutions; 11. Uncanny Encounters with Iceland?s Vikings at the Saga Museum; 12. Runes and Racism; 13. Political Uses of the Viking Age: The Sweden Democrats and the Danish People?s Party; Conclusion; 14. Towards Public Viking Research
