Ireland from the Vikings to the Normans. Language, culture, history: Tatyana Mikhailova

The book is an attempt to interpret sharp changes that affected both the social structure and the culture and language of Ireland during the IX-XII centuries. These changes began with the advent of the Vikings to Ireland, and it is customary to evaluate the consequences of this almost three -century conquest. However, the author is trying to look at this long-standing problem in a new way and seeks to find the positive aspects of the presence of the Vikings in the social and cultural space of Ireland. On the one hand, he sees them in numerous acquisitions (shipbuilding, fishing, the emergence of cities, the emergence of markets, minting coins, etc.), on the other hand, gives a description of the consequences of the destruction of the isolation of the Irish culture of the early Middle Ages, which showed in the emergence of new topics and plots in the narrative tradition, the emergence of their own historiography, and the openness of the European influence, the openness of the European Cultures in general, including ancient. Social and cultural changes inevitably entailed purely linguistic changes, to …

Author
Mikhailova Tatyana Andreevna
Editor
Chelysheva I.I.
Publisher
Languages ​​of Slavic cultures, 2012