Episodio 61 Los Reyes Vikingos de Inglaterra

William James fue un influyente filósofo y psicólogo estadounidense, considerado el padre de la psicología en América y figura clave del funcionalismo y el pragmatismo, conocido por su obra maestra Principios de Psicología(1890) y por conceptualizar la conciencia como un "flujo d ...  Show more

Viktor Lowenfeld fue un profesor en la Universidad Estatal de Pensilvania, que ayudó a definir y desarrollar el campo de la educación artística en los Estados Unidos. Sigmund Freud leyó un artículo sobre el trabajo de Lowenfeld con los ciegos, y le hizo una visita a su instituto. ...  Show more

Scandinavia has always been a world apart. For millennia Norwegians, Danes, Finns, and Swedes lived a remote and rugged existence among the fjords and peaks of the land of the midnight sun. But when they finally left their homeland in search of opportunity, these wanderers—includ ...  Show more

Vikings were addicted to silver; they collected it as coins, as ingots, arm-rings, jewellery. On one Swedish island alone archaeologists and metal detectorists found some 200,000 silver coins and there is a silver hoard there for almost every Viking farm. Why? What can the coins, ...  Show more

Gordon Campbell reveals how the Vikings made epic voyages of discovery across the Atlantic a millennium ago    The argument over whether Norse explorers settled in North America a millennium ago has raged for two centuries, pitting Protestants against Catholics, Native Americans ...  Show more

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Volga Vikings. Between the 8th and the 10th centuries AD, fierce Scandinavian warriors raided and then settled large swathes of Europe, particularly Britain, Ireland and parts of northern France. These were the Vikings, and their story is w ...  Show more