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A book about Viking contemporaries
You've learned about the Viking world, but what's going on outside of Scandinavia?

My pick: Empires of the Steppes by Kenneth Harl
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Authority in Islam: From the Rise of Muhammad to the Establishment of the Umayyads by Hamid Dabashi

Authority in Islam: From the Rise of Muhammad to the Establishment of the Umayyads

Hamid Dabashi

196 pages • paperback • 1989

challenging reflective medium-paced
The King in the North: The Pictish Realms of Fortriu and Ce by Nicholas Evans

The King in the North: The Pictish Realms of Fortriu and Ce

Nicholas Evans

208 pages • paperback • 2019

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
Surviving in Symbols: A Visit to the Pictish Nation by Martin Carver

Surviving in Symbols: A Visit to the Pictish Nation

The Making of Scotland #5

Martin Carver

64 pages • paperback • 1999

informative medium-paced
Normandy Before 1066 by David Bates

Normandy Before 1066

David Bates

287 pages • 1982

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
The Islamic World, Russia and the Vikings, 750-900: The Numismatic Evidence by Thomas S. Noonan

The Islamic World, Russia and the Vikings, 750-900: The Numismatic Evidence

Variorum Collected Studies

Thomas S. Noonan

352 pages • hardcover

nonfiction business economics history medium-paced
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire by Judith Herrin

Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire

Judith Herrin

16 hours, 14 minutes • audio • 2007

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders by Peter Heather

The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders

Peter Heather

470 pages • 2013

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
The Anglo-Saxon Age by John Blair

The Anglo-Saxon Age

Very Short Introductions #18

John Blair

104 pages • paperback • 2000

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England by Marc Morris

The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England

Marc Morris

452 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction history adventurous medium-paced