Byzantium and Islam in Scandinavia
Subtitle: acts of a symposium at Uppsala University, June 15-16 1996
By: editor, Elisabeth Piltz.
Contributors: Piltz, Elisabeth.; Uppsala universitet.
Series: Studies in Mediterranean archaeology,; v. 126
Publisher: P. Åströms förlag
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Jonsered [i.e. Göteborg]
Language: eng; fre; ger
Number of pages: 139
Subjects: Scandinavia -- Civilization -- Byzantine influences -- Congresses.; Scandinavia -- Relations -- Byzantine Empire -- Congresses.; Byzantine Empire -- Relations -- Scandinavia -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: In English, French, and German, with an abstract in French.
Includes bibliographical references.
"... Actes du Colloque international et interdisciplinaire Byzance et Islam en Scandinavie, tenu à l'Université d'Upsal en juin 1996 soutenu par NorFa à Oslo (Nordisk forskerutdanningsakademi), l"Académie nordique pour la recherche scientifique."--Abstract.
Table of contents: title: Byanz und der Islam: Konfrontation oder Koexistenz? / von Ralph-Johannes Lilie; title: Byzantium and Islam in Scandinavia / by Elisabeth Piltz; title: Islam and Scandinavia during the Viking Age / by Egil Mikkelsen; title: L'histoire agraire de Byzance et la Scandinavie / par Michel Kaplan; title: Arabische Autoren des Mittelalters über die Nordvölker / von Gotthard Strohmaier; title: Islam and Scandinavia:  the problem of religious influence / by Jan Hjärpe; title: Cufic coins in Denmark / by Jørgen Steen Jensen and Ann Kromann; title: Islamic coins found in Finland / by Tuukka Talvio; title: Varangian companies for long distance trade:  aspects of interchange between Scandinavia, Rusʹ and Byzantium in the 11th-12th centuries / by Elisabeth Piltz; title: Viking age Scandinavia and Islam: an archaeologist's view / by Wladyslaw Duczko; title: The seat of the Eddaic gods in Byzantium as a narrative motif in Saxo's Gesta Danorum / by Ivan Chekalov; title: Byzantine illuminations in the Kongelige Bibliothek in Copenhagen / by Elisabeth Piltz.