The Viking Age: New Perspectives on History and Culture

The raid on the British island of Lindisfarne marks the beginning of the Viking Age. But how did the Vikings engage with the world around them prior to this event?

It is impossible to understand the Vikings without understanding the climate, geography, and society that produced them. Also explore the influence of Rome on early Scandinavian culture.

Today, the Vikings have exceedingly violent reputations. Investigate the enduring but misguided trope that has for centuries characterised Viking activities around Europe.

For centuries, women have been excluded from scholarship on the Vikings; correct the record with a lecture focused on how women made waves in a rigidly patriarchal society.

Norse religion shaped the comic books, films, and even operas we know and love today; dig into Norse cosmology and beliefs about the afterlife and survey common religious practises.

Continue your exploration of Norse religion with a focus on death and dying. Examine how burials and afterlife trajectories differed based on class, gender, and even battlefield experience.