Tabla de Contenidos: “…Beginnings to the end of pagan Ireland (prehistory-431) -- Christianity arrives and thrives (431-795) -- From Viking invasions to royal confrontations (795-1169) -- From the Norman invasion to the Anglo-Irish administration (1169-1534) -- The planting of Protestant power (1534-1691) -- Ascendancy Ireland (1691-1800) -- From the Act of Union to the great famine (1800-1849) -- The drive for independence (1849-1922) -- Making modern Ireland (1922-1969) -- Two Irish visions in collision (1969-2000) -- Ireland in the twenty-first century : the pain-filled past recedes at last?…”
Sumario

“…Tout au plus s'y est-on parfois penché de manière biaisée, par exemple en étudiant les conséquences des déprédations vikings, hongroises ou sarrasines sur l'Occident chrétien. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Unity: One empire, under God ; Seeking the mandate of Heaven ; An empire of the mind ; The Persian threat ; The apostate ; Earthquake and invasion ; Refounding the Kingdom ; The Catholic church -- Fractures: Excommunicated ; Cracked in two ; The sack of Rome ; One nature versus two ; Seeking a homeland ; The Gupta decline ; Northern ambitions ; The Huns ; Attila ; Orthodoxy ; The high kings ; The end of the Roman myth -- New powers: The Ostrogoths ; Byzantium ; Aspirations ; Resentment ; Elected Kings ; Invasion and eruption ; The Americas ; Great and holy majesty ; Pestilence ; The heavenly sovereign ; Reunification ; The South Indian kings ; Two emperors ; The mayors of the palaces ; Gregory the Great ; The Persian crusade ; The prophet ; Tang dominance ; The tribe of faith ; Intersection ; The troubles of empire -- States and kingdoms: Law and language ; Creating the past ; The days of the empress ; Paths into Europe ; The Kailasa of the South ; Purifications ; The Abbasids ; Charlemagne ; The An Lushan rebellion ; Imperator et Augustus ; The new Sennacherib ; Castle lords and regents ; The triumph of the outsiders ; The third dynasty ; The Vikings ; Long-lived kings ; Foreign and domestic relations ; The second caliphate ; The great army of the Vikings ; Struggle for the iron crown ; Kampaku ; Basileus ; The creation of Normandy ; The kingdom of Germany ; The turn of the wheel ; The capture of Baghdad ; Three kingdoms ; Kings of England ; The baptism of the Rus -- Crusades: The holy Roman emperor ; The hardship of sacred war ; Basil the Bulgar-slayer ; Defending the mandate ; The new found land ; Schism ; Danish domination ; The Norman conquest ; The kings of Spain ; The arrival of the Turks ; The loss of the song ; Repentance at Canossa ; The call ; Fighting for Jerusalem ; Aftershocks…”

“…Other major themes are Ireland's relations with Britain and continental Europe, and Vikings and their influence, the beginnings of Irish feudalism, and the impact of the Viking and Norman invaders. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…LA LARGA RESACA DE LAS VIKING: ¿«MARTE AZUL»?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction to architecture : Middle Eastern architecture ; Middle-Eastern details ; Romanesque architecture ; Romanesque details ; Gothic architecture ; Gothic details ; Mesoamerican architecture ; Mesoamerican details ; Viking structures ; Asian architecture ; Asian details ; Modern and futurist architecture ; Modern and futurist details -- 2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Banality of Financial Evil -- Prolugue: Some Poetic Thoughts Concerning Meltdowns -- Before the Beginning -- 1: Vikings Invade Present-Day Iceland -- 2: Exploiting Icelandic History -- 3: Free Market Ideology, Crony Capitalism, and Social Resilience -- 4: A Day in the Life of an Icelandic Banker -- 5: Something Rotten in the State of Iceland -- After the Crash -- 6: Overthrowing the Government -- 7: "Welcome to the Revolution!" …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Harris -- The Scandinavian container at San Isidoro, Leo ́n, in the context of Viking art and society / Nancy L. Wicker…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Calibration of Camera Systems for Underwater Photogrammetry -- Presenting Photogrammetric 3D Recording Essays in the Submerged Harbour Infrastructure of the Ancient and Medieval Harbour of Kyllene/Glarentza -- Using Digital Visualisation of Archival Sources to Enhance Archaeological Interpretation of the 'Life History' of Ships -- Presenting Computer Vision Photogrammetry (CVP) for Maritime Archaeology Research and Public Outreach -- High-Resolution Sub-Seabed Survey and Visualisation -- From Integration to Explanation: Moving from 3 to 4 Dimensions -- 3D Scanning and Mapping of the City of Adelaide -- Recent 3D Survey Work in Egypt -- Innomar's Parametric Sub-Bottom Profiler (SBP) Survey of Sub-Seabed Viking Fortifications in the Baltic -- Early Results of the High-Resolution Imaging of HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran -- Underwater Archaeology using Riegl Bathymetric Lidars -- The 17th/18th Century Drumbeg Shipwreck in Scotland -- James Matthews Trial Sub-Bottom Profile Survey -- Image-Based 3D Underwater Recording and Ocularcentrism -- 3D Photogrammetry for an by the Public -- Integration of Topographical and Bathymetrical Surveys in High-Resolution Textured 3D Prints…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…South Africa's politics of forgiveness as an example of a contextual public theology / Dion Forster -- Contextual theology on trial : African Pentecostalism, sacred authority, and sexual and gender based violence / Chammah Kaunda -- Gender, ethnicity and lived religion : challenges to contextual and liberation theologies / Elina Vuola -- Ecumenical liberation theology : how I experienced its arrival in Germany and Europe after 1968 / Ulrich Duchrow -- Economy, greed and liberation theology : a critique from a border location in India / Atola Longkumer -- The dissemination of Vikings : postcolonial contexts and economic meltdown / Sigríður Guðmarsdóttir -- Reclaiming tradition as critique of oppression / Teresa Callewaert -- Speaking from experience : comparing Mahdawi-Pentecostal approaches to equipment for mission and its theological justification / David Emmanuel Singh -- Theology in the Anthropocene--and beyond? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Glasgow Rangers, Scotland and 'hot' football rivalries / Real and imagined : reflections on football rivalry in Northern Ireland / Lion roars : myth, identity and Millwall fandom / 'Those bloody Croatians' : Croatian soccer teams, ethnicity and violence in Australia, 1950-99 / Football, ethnicity and identity in Mauritius : soccer in a rainbow nation / 'Team loyalty splits the city into two' : football, ethnicity and rivalry in Calcutta / Basque football rivalries in the twentieth century / Players, patrons and politicians : oppositional cultures in Maltese football / Viking and farmer armies : the Stavanger-Byrne Norwegian football rivalry / Competition and cooperation : football rivalries in Yemen / 'Colours make me sick' : America FC and upward mobility in Mexico / Three confrontations and a coda : Juventus of Turin and Italy…”

“…As the global banking boom of the early twenty-first century expanded towards implosion, Icelandic media began calling the country's celebrity financiers útrásarvíkingar: "raiding vikings." This new coinage encapsulated the macho, medievalist nationalism which underwrote Iceland's exponential financialisation. …”

“…In recent years, through novels and television series ("Vikings", "Millennium", "Borgen" or "Occupied"), Nordic culture has become more visible internationally. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Preliminary Material -- An Introduction to Discourses of Purity in Transcultural Perspective / 1 Early Medieval Churches as Cultic Space between Material and Ethical Purity / 2 Some Brief Notes on Purity in Chinese Daoism / 3 An Almost Tangible Presence: Some Thoughts on Material Purity among Medieval European Jews / 4 From ‘Clean’ to ‘Pure’ in Everyday Life in Late Imperial China: A Preliminary Enquiry / 5 Discourses on Purity in Western Christianity in the Early and High Middle Ages / 6 Purity between Semantics and History: Notes on Daoist Soteriology and Interreligious Encounters in Early Medieval China / 7 Purity of Language: A Short-Lived Concept in Medieval Hebrew Poetry / 8 Domum immundam a perversis violata mundavit. Viking Defilement in Early Medieval Francia / 9 Washing Away the Dirt of the World of Desire—On Origins and Developments of Notions of Ritual Purity in Japanese Mountain Religions / 10 Patterns of Intensification of the Laws on Ritual Purity in Medieval Jewish Ashkenaz / 11 Religious Texts and the Islamic Purity Regime / 12 Sons of Damnation: Franciscans, Muslims, and Christian Purity / 13 Purifying the Pure: The Visuddhimagga, Forest-Dwellers and the Dynamics of Individual and Collective Prestige in Theravāda Buddhism / 14 Registers of Genealogical Purity in Classical Islam / Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Hartle -- The fireside Vikings and the the "Boy's own" Vinland : Vinland in popular English and American literature (1841-1926) / Geraldine Barnes -- Agnes of Sorrento : Harriet Beecher Stowe's medieval correction to Nathaniel Hawthorne's The marble faun / Caroline Gebhard -- Alexander Grosart's Donne and Marvell / Charles Larson -- "Women are knights-errant to the last" : nineteenth-century women writers reinvent the medieval literary damsel / Natalie Joy Woodall -- Medieval narrative conventions and the putative antimedievalism of Twain's Connecticut Yankee / Anita Obermeier…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Little Red Ring Binders: Early Red List Temporalities -- Chapter 6. Oil and Vikings: Temporal Alignments within Norwegian Petroleum Fields -- Part III. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Phillips -- Change and continuity : cremation and inhumation during the Christianisation period in Scandinavia (c. 800-1200 CE) / Frida Espolin Norstein -- Dying well in a damaged planet : emergent burial practices and the ecologies of the dead / Troy Fielder -- The urning question : cultural change in Roman-period Slovenia seen through the choice of funerary urns / Kaja Stemberger Flegar -- The Viking-Period burials of the Hebrides : the maritime landscape, grave goods, and change / Joseph Thomas Ryder -- Narrating ethnic identity and competition in Lombard southern Italy through burial practices (6th-7th centuries) / Giulia Zornetta -- Golden funerary masks and societal change narratives in Ancient Macedonia / Jessica Clementi -- Building the Christian cemetery: Religious evolution in burial practices in the NW of the Iberian Peninsula / Patricia Valle Abad, Laura Blanco-Torrejón -- Cypriot burial practices at the close of the Bronze Age : continuities and changes in the light of the 12th century BCE transformations / Teresa Bürge -- Changing burial practices in Late Antiquity : embracing complexities / Irene Selsvold -- Rethinking burial practices and period transitions through a posthumanist and new materialist lens / Rachel J. …”

“…Strangelove, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, along with designs from television programs such as Magnum P.I., Castle, and Vikings present a critical assessment of title sequences as both an independent art form and an introduction to the film that follows."…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “….) -- Symphonie diagonale / Viking Eggeling (1924, 7 min.) -- Vampire / Jean Painleve (1939, 8 min.) -- Hearts of age / Orson Welles, William Vance (1934, 8 min.)…”