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In the early 1800's, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved from walrus ivory. The Lewis Chessmen are probably the most famous chess pieces in the world. Harry played Wizard's Chess with them in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Housed at the British Museum, they are among its most visited and beloved objects.
Questions abounded: Who carved them? Where? Nancy Marie Brown's Ivory Vikings explores these mysteries by connecting medieval Icelandic sagas with modern archaeology, art history, forensics, and the history of board games. In the process, Ivory Vikings presents a vivid history of the 400 years when the Vikings ruled the North Atlantic, and the sea-road connected countries and islands we think of as far apart and culturally distinct: Norway and Scotland, Ireland and Iceland, and Greenland and North America. The story of the Lewis chessmen brings from the shadows an extraordinarily talented woman artist of the twelfth century: Margret the Adroit of Iceland.
In the early 1800's, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved from walrus ivory. The Lewis Chessmen are probably the most famous chess pieces in the world. Harry played Wizard's Chess with them in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Housed at the British Museum, they are among its most visited and beloved objects.
Questions abounded: Who carved them? Where? Nancy Marie Brown's Ivory Vikings explores these mysteries by connecting medieval Icelandic sagas with modern archaeology, art history, forensics, and the history of board games. In the process, Ivory Vikings presents a vivid history of the 400 years when the Vikings ruled the North Atlantic, and the sea-road connected countries and islands we think of as far apart and culturally distinct: Norway and Scotland, Ireland and Iceland, and Greenland and North America. The story of the Lewis chessmen brings from the shadows an extraordinarily talented woman artist of the twelfth century: Margret the Adroit of Iceland.
CONTENTS
Introduction: The Missing Pieces
One: The Rooks
Two: The Bishops
Three: The Queens
Four: The Kings
Five: The Knights
Acknowledgments: The Pawns
Illustration Credits
Tables
Notes
Further Reading
Index
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Regionalgeschichte |
| Genre: | Geschichte |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Buch |
| ISBN-13: | 9781137279378 |
| ISBN-10: | 1137279370 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Ausstattung / Beilage: | HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag |
| Einband: | Gebunden |
| Autor: | Brown, Nancy Marie |
| Hersteller: | St. Martins Press-3PL |
| Maße: | 235 x 157 x 22 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Nancy Marie Brown |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.09.2015 |
| Gewicht: | 0,641 kg |
CONTENTS
Introduction: The Missing Pieces
One: The Rooks
Two: The Bishops
Three: The Queens
Four: The Kings
Five: The Knights
Acknowledgments: The Pawns
Illustration Credits
Tables
Notes
Further Reading
Index
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Regionalgeschichte |
| Genre: | Geschichte |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Buch |
| ISBN-13: | 9781137279378 |
| ISBN-10: | 1137279370 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Ausstattung / Beilage: | HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag |
| Einband: | Gebunden |
| Autor: | Brown, Nancy Marie |
| Hersteller: | St. Martins Press-3PL |
| Maße: | 235 x 157 x 22 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Nancy Marie Brown |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.09.2015 |
| Gewicht: | 0,641 kg |
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