Name: Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them (en Inglés)
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Author: Brown, Nancy Marie
ISBN: 9781137279378

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Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Nancy Marie Brown

Editorial

St. Martin's Press

Idioma

Inglés

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

23.1 x 16.3 x 3.3 cm

Peso

0.59 kg.

ISBN13

9781137279378

Categorías

Historia del arte
Europa del norte, escandinavia
Estilo medieval
Historia de la edad media

Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them (en Inglés)

Nancy Marie Brown (Autor) · St. Martin's Press · Tapa Dura

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"A fascinating tale of discovery and mystery." --The Minneapolis Star TribuneIn 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.