Wendy Davies
- Published in print:
- 1990
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198201533
- eISBN:
- 9780191674921
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198201533.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History
The ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries were a period of notable English and Scandinavian interest in Wales. This brought Vikings and Englishmen to Wales and Welshmen to England and Ireland. This ...
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The ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries were a period of notable English and Scandinavian interest in Wales. This brought Vikings and Englishmen to Wales and Welshmen to England and Ireland. This chapter focuses on the Viking raids in Wales which began in the middle of the ninth century, and the issue of Scandinavian political presence in Wales. Journeys to eastern Ireland in this period took them to a Scandinavian sphere: Viking Dublin was founded in 841 and until the eleventh century was an essentially Scandinavian enclave.Less
The ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries were a period of notable English and Scandinavian interest in Wales. This brought Vikings and Englishmen to Wales and Welshmen to England and Ireland. This chapter focuses on the Viking raids in Wales which began in the middle of the ninth century, and the issue of Scandinavian political presence in Wales. Journeys to eastern Ireland in this period took them to a Scandinavian sphere: Viking Dublin was founded in 841 and until the eleventh century was an essentially Scandinavian enclave.
Ní Máire Mhaonaigh
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197264508
- eISBN:
- 9780191734120
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197264508.003.0018
- Subject:
- History, European Medieval History
This chapter discusses the historical accounts of Viking raids in Ireland and Britain during the last years of the eighth century or the early years of the ninth. It compares the accounts of Bede and ...
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This chapter discusses the historical accounts of Viking raids in Ireland and Britain during the last years of the eighth century or the early years of the ninth. It compares the accounts of Bede and Alcuin of York and the historical relevance of the role of the Mayo monastery, Bishop Colmán, and Gerald of Mayo. The chapter provides background information on the lives of both Colmán and Gerald.Less
This chapter discusses the historical accounts of Viking raids in Ireland and Britain during the last years of the eighth century or the early years of the ninth. It compares the accounts of Bede and Alcuin of York and the historical relevance of the role of the Mayo monastery, Bishop Colmán, and Gerald of Mayo. The chapter provides background information on the lives of both Colmán and Gerald.
Jean Dunbabin
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198208464
- eISBN:
- 9780191678028
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198208464.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, European Medieval History
In the first half of the eleventh century, the impotence of the Capetians was openly acknowledged by their subjects. The strength that kingship had derived from its new royal family—the more ...
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In the first half of the eleventh century, the impotence of the Capetians was openly acknowledged by their subjects. The strength that kingship had derived from its new royal family—the more extensive demesne, the rather different image—was not sufficient to halt its slide. However, what was important from the point of view of political history was less the further decline — in any case not extensive — than the prolongation of weakness, the continuation of a situation in which royal intervention outside the demesne was a rarity. The weakness of the king, as well as the changing attitude towards private warfare that was not purely confined to churchmen, gave rise to a peace movement. The medieval church's powerful impetus towards change evoked a strong and widespread response throughout the church and its lay adherents in the eleventh century. And nowhere was that response richer, more varied, more creative than in West Francia. The period 980–1020 was the culmination of the monastic reform movement which had begun in the aftermath of the Viking raids.Less
In the first half of the eleventh century, the impotence of the Capetians was openly acknowledged by their subjects. The strength that kingship had derived from its new royal family—the more extensive demesne, the rather different image—was not sufficient to halt its slide. However, what was important from the point of view of political history was less the further decline — in any case not extensive — than the prolongation of weakness, the continuation of a situation in which royal intervention outside the demesne was a rarity. The weakness of the king, as well as the changing attitude towards private warfare that was not purely confined to churchmen, gave rise to a peace movement. The medieval church's powerful impetus towards change evoked a strong and widespread response throughout the church and its lay adherents in the eleventh century. And nowhere was that response richer, more varied, more creative than in West Francia. The period 980–1020 was the culmination of the monastic reform movement which had begun in the aftermath of the Viking raids.
Martin Carver
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748624416
- eISBN:
- 9780748670703
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748624416.003.0007
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
In about 800 AD the monastery of Portmahomack was attacked in a Viking raid. The vellum workshops were incinerated and Christian sculpture broken up with sledge hammers. Several monks were found to ...
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In about 800 AD the monastery of Portmahomack was attacked in a Viking raid. The vellum workshops were incinerated and Christian sculpture broken up with sledge hammers. Several monks were found to have died from blade wounds. Then, curiously, the northern workshops revived, but now as a metal-working area. The same techniques were employed as before, with moulds and crucibles, but the smiths were now making more secular objects. These events are placed in the history of the area: the Norse conquest and domination of Orkney and Caithness; their struggle against the men of Ross and Moray and the triumph of MacBeth the Christian Scottish leader. The new masters were most likely the Scots of Moray, who held the Moray Firth against the Norse invaders for a century or more.Less
In about 800 AD the monastery of Portmahomack was attacked in a Viking raid. The vellum workshops were incinerated and Christian sculpture broken up with sledge hammers. Several monks were found to have died from blade wounds. Then, curiously, the northern workshops revived, but now as a metal-working area. The same techniques were employed as before, with moulds and crucibles, but the smiths were now making more secular objects. These events are placed in the history of the area: the Norse conquest and domination of Orkney and Caithness; their struggle against the men of Ross and Moray and the triumph of MacBeth the Christian Scottish leader. The new masters were most likely the Scots of Moray, who held the Moray Firth against the Norse invaders for a century or more.
