Empires and Barbarians (130 page)

as extended flow and not one big mass movement
495
,
504

and fields of information
500
–2,
591

Great Army settlement in England
96
,
455
–6,
458
,
459
–61,
464
,
483
–6,
490
,
496
,
502
,
510
,
583

and inherent mobility
594

involvement of women and children
490
–1,
492
,
494
,
504

motivations
497
–9

naval technology and ships
504
–6,
512
,
513
,
583
–4,
595
–6

and place-name evidence
485
,
487
–8

political and cultural impact of
495
–7

political motivations
508
–12

and return migration
593

settlement in northern and western isles
487
–8,
489
–90,
496

size and scale of into west
481
–4,
490
,
491
–5,
513
,
583

types of unit
490

Vikings
10
,
130
,
287
,
450
–1,
452
–514,
518

Alfred’s defence against
459
,
461
–2

attacks against Franks
460
–1,
483

castle construction
521
–2

conquest of western Europe by Great Armies and settlement
459
–65

hiring of to fight other Vikings
457

military capability
524

raiding in western Europe
453
–65,
455
–8,
498
–9,
583

Russia/Rus
465
–81

settlement in France
463

and slave trade
498
–9,
548

and Trelleborg fortresses
522
,
530

villas: in Roman Britain
295
,
297
–8,
299
,
304
,
293
,
294

Vinitharius
358
,
442

Visigoths
52
,
123
,
139
,
152
,
214
,
256
,
307
,
338
–9,
344
,
345
–6,
348
,
375

Clovis’s campaign against
309
,
310
,
360

creation of
357

diplomatic relations with Romans
339

falling apart of unification with Ostrogoths
364

smashing of kingdom by Franks
360

treaty with Romans (418)
357

Vithimer
162
,
163
,
215

Vladimir
524
–5,
536
,
550
,
559
,
567
,
571

Volga Bulgars
465
,
477
–8

Volga, River
473
–4,
477
,
492

Völkerwanderung
(‘movement of peoples’)
153
,
172
,
173
–88,
226
–7,
267
,
329
,
376
,
603
–9

Volyntsevo culture
416
–17,
419

Vouilé, battle of (507)
360

Wallachia
393
,
439
,
446
,
447

warbands
126
–7,
129
,
131
,
133
,
143
,
158
,
215

Warperton, cemetery of
275

wave of advance model
22
,
29
,
147
,
148
,
422
,
579
–80,
581
–2,
583

Wenskus, Reinard

The Generation and Bonding of Tribes
19
–20

wergild
302
,
320

Werner, Hans-Joachim
314

Wessex
275
,
280
,
301
,
302
,
459
,
460
,
462
,
496

Wielbark system
103
,
104
–5,
130
,
141
,
222

cemeteries
117
,
118
,
126
–7,
134
,
146
–7

expansion of
105
–6,
107
,
117
,
580
,
582

links with Cernjachov system
120
–1,
124

Wijster
50
–1,
73
–4

William the Conqueror
292
,
298
,
327
,
350

William and the Conqueror
292

women

and Amal-led Goths
247
–8

and Anglo-Saxon migration
283
–4,
290
,
297

and Frankish immigration
326

and Germanic migration
130
–2,
133
,
143
,
145
–6,
150
,
171
–2,
176
–7,
600
–1

and slave trade
566
–7

and Viking migration
490
–1,
492
,
494

world systems theories
34

Wormald, Patrick
508
,
509

Yaroslav the Wise
559

York
465

Yugoslavia, former
29

Zimbabwe
300

Zizais
83
,
88

Zosimus
162
,
191
–2,
209
,
294

Zwentibald, King
xiii
557
,
558