Sven Kalmring (Zentrum fur Baltische und Skandinavische Archaologie

Towns and Commerce in Viking-Age Scandinavia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume offers an interdisciplinary and geographically wide-ranging approach to understanding the emergence of towns and commerce in Viking-age Scandinavia and their eventual demise by the end of the period. It tracks the diverging characteristics of urban communities against the background of traditional social structures in the Viking world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 299
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9781009298094
• ISBN-10: 1009298097
• Artikelnr.: 68352910

Autorenporträt

Sven Kalmring is a scholar of Viking-age archaeology who specialises in maritime archaeology and early medieval urbanisation. A researcher at the Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology in Schleswig, Germany, and docent at Stockholm University, Sweden, he serves on the board of the Medieval Europe Research Community and is a delegate to the Viking Congress.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The Viking-age town: Context and academic debate
3. The Viking world
4. Cult, jurisdiction and markets: Things and regional fairs at traditional centres of power
5. Local society and Viking-age towns
6. An urbanisation based on harbours
7. Jurisdiction and taxes
8. Free trade within narrow boundaries
9. Special economic zones of their time
10. Development after the inception phase
11. Discussion: Hedeby's abandonment and the foundation of Slesvig
12. Summary and conclusions.