Les vikings et leurs captifs Britanniques : entre violences infligées et violences fantasmées

Many stereotypes run through the historiography on Vikings and violence. This article proposes to reassess the fate of the captives during the Viking raids in the British Isles through a non-exhaustive corpus. The aim is to analyse the typology of captivity, the conditions of detention and the punis...

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Main Author: Jean-Louis Parmentier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Criminocorpus
Series:Criminocorpus
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/criminocorpus/7873
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description Many stereotypes run through the historiography on Vikings and violence. This article proposes to reassess the fate of the captives during the Viking raids in the British Isles through a non-exhaustive corpus. The aim is to analyse the typology of captivity, the conditions of detention and the punishment inflicted by the Northmen: are the Scandinavians more violent than other peoples? Does being a prisoner of the Vikings necessarily imply terrible abuses ? Were the cruel acts cited in the sources actually practised ?
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Les vikings et leurs captifs Britanniques : entre violences infligées et violences fantasmées
Criminocorpus
violence
Vikings
captives
British Isles
prisoners
Middle Ages
title Les vikings et leurs captifs Britanniques : entre violences infligées et violences fantasmées
title_full Les vikings et leurs captifs Britanniques : entre violences infligées et violences fantasmées
title_fullStr Les vikings et leurs captifs Britanniques : entre violences infligées et violences fantasmées
title_full_unstemmed Les vikings et leurs captifs Britanniques : entre violences infligées et violences fantasmées
title_short Les vikings et leurs captifs Britanniques : entre violences infligées et violences fantasmées
title_sort les vikings et leurs captifs britanniques entre violences infligees et violences fantasmees
topic violence
Vikings
captives
British Isles
prisoners
Middle Ages
url https://journals.openedition.org/criminocorpus/7873
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