TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cooijmans,Christian
TI  - Monarchs and hydrarchs: the conceptual development of Viking activity across the Frankish realm (c. 750-940) 
T2  - Routledge archaeologies of the Viking world
SN  - 9780429260209
AV  - DC70 .C65 2020eb
U1  - 944/.014 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Vikings
KW  - France
KW  - History
KW  - HISTORY / Medieval
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
KW  - To 987
N2  - "Monarchs and Hydrarchs approaches the available interdisciplinary data on a cumulative and conceptual level, allowing overall spatiotemporal patterns of Viking activity to be detected and defined. Despite decades of scholarly scrutiny, the politico-economic exploits of Vikings in and around the Frankish realm (c. 750-940 CE) remain - to a considerable extent - obscured by the constraints of a fragmentary and biased corpus of (near-)contemporary evidence, conveying the impression that these movements were capricious, haphazard, and gratuitous in character. Set against a backdrop of continuous commerce and knowledge exchange, this overarching survey demonstrates the existence of a relatively uniform, sequential framework of wealth extraction, encampment, and political engagement, within which Scandinavian fleets operated as adaptable, ambulant polities - or 'hydrarchies'. By delineating and visualising this framework, a four-phased conceptual development model of hydrarchic conduct and consequence is established, whose validity is substantiated by its application to a number of distinct regional case studies. The parameters of this abstract model affirm that Scandinavian movements across Francia were the result of prudent and expedient decision-making processes, contingent on exchanged intelligence, cumulative experience, and the ongoing individual and collective need for socioeconomic subsistence and enrichment. It will appeal to researchers wishing to understand Viking interactions with the Franks as well as more generally to students and academics in Early Medieval and Viking Studies"--
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429260209
UR  - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
ER  -