A propos de l'auteur
Wladyslaw Duczko is an Associate Professor in Archaeology, University of Uppsala.
Œuvres de Wladyslaw Duczko
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1946-02-21
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Poland
- Lieux de résidence
- Uppsala, Sweden
- Organisations
- University of Uppsala
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 35
- Popularité
- #405,584
- Évaluation
- 4.7
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 5
- Langues
- 1
The book could have used better editing; Duczko's English is frequently awkward, and the transcription of Russian words is inconsistent, the same word being rendered differently only a couple sentences apart in one case. Get past that however, and I found a lot to like here. The biggest takeaway is perhaps that the nature of Scandinavian presence varied from region to region, with different mixtures with Finnic, Slavic, and Turkic nomad elements. Partly as a result Duczko doesn't believe that the tenth century Rurikids of Kiev ruled all the Rus as the Primary Chronicle would have it a century later.… (plus d'informations)