{"id":2822,"date":"2010-04-28T10:39:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T15:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=2822"},"modified":"2010-04-28T10:39:49","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T15:39:49","slug":"brock-professors-edit-book-about-the-viking-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/04\/brock-professors-edit-book-about-the-viking-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock professors edit book about the Viking age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2821\" title=\"somerville_full_cov3.indd\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/vikingage.jpg\" alt=\"somerville_full_cov3.indd\" width=\"215\" height=\"324\" \/>Two Brock professors have released a new book about the Viking world.<\/p>\n<p>Angus Somerville, associate professor of English Language and Literature, and Andrew McDonald, associate professor of History, edited <em>The Viking Age: A Reader<\/em>. The book contains more than 100 readings, including straightforward Norse translations for students and 13 black-and-white illustrations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In <em>The Viking Age: A Reader<\/em>, Somerville and McDonald weave a tapestry from contemporary and nearly contemporary documents representing the Vikings, warts and all,&#8221; George Clark, professor emeritus of Queens University, said in a blurb for the book.<\/p>\n<p>The reader was published by UTP Higher Education on April 15.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Link:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utphighereducation.com\/product.php?productid=1020&amp;cat=0&amp;page=1\" target=\"_blank\">UTP HigherEducation: History &amp; Medieval Studies : <em>The Viking Age: A Reader<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angus Somerville and Andrew McDonald are behind a book released April 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37],"tags":[76,75],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2823,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions\/2823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}