HIST 3P30 Lecture 7: HIST 3P30- February 26th 2016
9 Apr 2016
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*see brink and price book on reserve- one stop shop book for everything viking- helpful for paper* Cite author/itle of chapter when ciing from a book like the viking world. The viking and the frankish kingdoms- raiding to setlement. Poliical organizaion on the coninent: from empire to kingdom. His sons ighing amongst themselves for territory even before he died. Ater his death empire fragmented into three parts. Meeing of three brothers where the divided the empire. Didn"t stop the ighing even ater the treaty. The kind of situaion prime for vikings to come in and plunder/exploit it/opportunist. Prehistory of contacts between the franks and the northern world. S (danes especially) not an unknown people to the franks/carolingian rulers. Contacts resuling from expansion of frankish military power- saxony. Franks knew these peoples; they knew the franks. Frankish sources/chroniclers oten well informed about the goings on in denmark etc. Able to get further inland to places like paris.
