Hopkins, Andrea

Provides information about the lives of Vikings, discussing how and where they lived, farming activities, family units, slavery, the work of men and women, colonizing, and festivities.

Examines the way in which writers and chroniclers of the times portrayed knighthood, contrasting this with the way real-life knights lived.

Provides information about the Vikings and their quest for land, discussing their settlements in Scotland, Iceland, Greenland, Europe, and Russia.

Examines the history of tournaments and jousts, activities which grew out of training exercises for knights to become some of the most prestigious, expensive, dangerous, and exciting events of the Middle Ages.

Explores the roles played by women of various classes in medieval society, in the nobility, in the church, and in daily life and work.