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The Nordic Region comes together. Christianity brought a new cultural flow to the Nordic Region. Large churches like the cathedrals in Stavanger and Ribe were built, as were monasteries and bishoprics as far away as West Greenland.
This chapter explores the origins of this conglomeration of territories and of its further history throughout the rest of the Viking Age and the early Scandinavian Middle Ages. Archaeology has become an increasingly important source for the study of the earliest political history of Denmark.
Map of Scandinavia and Northern Europe. Scandinavia is a historical and geographical region including the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. It is characterized by common ethno-cultural heritage and mutually intelligible North Germanic languages. 1 Terminology and usage. 1.1 Usage in geography.
The peninsula (area 289,500 square miles [750,000 square km]) essentially consists of a mountainous mass, much of which is part of the ancient Baltic Shield, parts of which were affected by glaciation during the Pleistocene Epoch (i.e., about 2,600,000 to 11,700 years ago).
Aug 22, 2019 · The history of Scandinavia. The Viking Age. Political unions and wars. How to visit Scandinavia. Scandinavia travel tips. Welcome to Scandinavia. I'll look at which countries makes up the region and how history has shaped that journey. Then I'll deal with what modern day Scandinavia is like, including everything from politics to entertainment.
THE GEOGRAPHY AND PREHISTORY OF SCANDINAVIA. PART II. FROM VIKINGS TO KINGS. PART III. MATERIAL GROWTH (to c. 1350) PART IV. THE HIGH MEDIEVAL KINGDOMS. PART V. HIGH AND LATE MEDIEVAL CULTURE. PART VI. LATE MEDIEVAL SOCIETY (c. 1350–1520) PART VII. SCANDINAVIAN UNIONS (1319–1520) Conclusion.
Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Scandinavia provides a comprehensive and authoritative account of the Scandinavian countries from the close of the Middle Ages through to the formation of the nation states in the mid-nineteenth century.
