The Vikings: New Perspectives | Cat Jarman in conversation with William Dalrymple

The Vikings: New Perspectives | Cat Jarman in conversation with William Dalrymple

"During a session at the Jaipur Literature Festival with historian and author William Dalrymple, Cat Jarman talked about how the Viking age has been studied for more than a 100 years but in the last decade, due to new scientific methods, there has been a complete revolution in what we know about the Vikings. In this clip, Jarman, a fascinating bio-archaeologist specialising in the Viking Age of Europe, talks about the movement of the Vikings, her engrossing field of study and the fresh perspectives and new narratives that are emerging within this discipline. "

Cat Jarman - is an archaeologist specialising in Viking Age Europe and Bioarchaeology. She directs excavations at numerous sites in England and Ukraine. Jarman also works as a historical consultant and presenter for TV and media and hosts the weekly podcast, Gone Medieval by History Hit.

William Dalrymple - is one of Britain’s great historians and the bestselling author of the Wolfson Prize-winning White Mughals, The Last Mughal, which won the Duff Cooper Prize, and the Hemingway and Kapuściński Prize-winning Return of a King. His most recent book, The Anarchy, was long listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2019, among others. A frequent broadcaster, he has written and presented three television series, one of which won the Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series at BAFTA. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Asiatic Society and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and writes regularly for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The Guardian. In 2018, he was presented with the prestigious President’s Medal by the British Academy for his outstanding literary achievement and for co-founding the Jaipur Literature Festival.

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