Vikings In the Frankish Kingdom

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🗓️ 11 January 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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The Kingdom of the Franks was the largest post-Roman barbarian kingdom in Western Europe, ruled by the Franks during Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. But how did it fare against Viking attacks? From the changes in travel, early raids, exports, and trades, we look at this kingdom and its Viking activity through a different lens. In this episode, Cat is joined by Christian Cooijmans. Christian is a British Academy Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool, with his research focusing on the reach and repercussions of Viking endeavors across mainland Europe. We examine and challenge the widely accepted central interpretations of Viking activity in northern continental Europe.

Christian Cooijmans, author of Monarchs and Hydrarchs: The Conceptual Development of Viking Activity across the Frankish Realm. Published by Routledge.

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0:34.9	Hello and welcome to Gone Medieval by History Hit. I'm Dr. Cat Jarman.
0:40.4	In this week's episode, we're going to be talking about Viking attacks in the region in
0:45.4	North Western Europe that's surprisingly often overlooked, but also where they were very similar
0:51.9	to more familiar events in places like Britain and Ireland. I'm talking about the region of
0:57.5	France here. And today I'm delighted to have us my guest here, Dr. Chris Coimans, who's a
1:03.2	British Academy postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Liverpool. He's also the author
1:09.4	of the book Monarchs and Hydrox, the conceptual development of Viking activity across the
1:14.8	Frankish realm.
1:18.0	So thank you so much for joining us on Gone Medieval today, Chris.
1:21.8	Oh, thanks for having me. It's great to be with you.
1:25.2	Now, I'm really keen to talk about this because I think that quite a lot of people, when we think
1:29.5	about the Vikings and the Viking Age, we sort of forget about this part of continental Europe,
1:34.8	a little bit really. Is that sort of the sense that you get as well?
1:39.2	Yeah, it's not really talked about as much in these sort of overarching Viking histories.
1:46.0	Frankie has usually mentioned sort of very sort of off the cuff a quick reference,
1:51.1	but any sort of detailed analysis of what's happening in Frankia, usually not part of these larger
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