Viking-Age Trade (eBook, PDF)

Silver, Slaves and Gotland
Redaktion: Gruszczynski, Jacek; Shepard, Jonathan; Jankowiak, Marek

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume highlights the trade in slaves during the ninth and tenth centuries as driving exchanges on a trans-continental scale. A combination of general surveys and regional case-studies sets Gotland and the early medieval slave trade in a firmer framework than has been available before.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 498
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351866163
• Artikelnr.: 60094495

Autorenporträt

Jacek Gruszczy¿ski was a Research Associate at the Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford and now works as an archaeology and heritage consultant. Marek Jankowiak is Associate Professor of Byzantine History at the University of Oxford. Jonathan Shepard was University Lecturer in Russian History at the University of Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Why Gotland?
Part I: Cogs and Drivers
2. Reading between the lines: Tracking slaves and slavery in the early
middle ages
3. Slavery in medieval Scandinavia: Some points of departure
4. The fur trade in the early middle ages
5. The dynamics of the drugs trade: A model for the study of the medieval
trade in slaves?
Part II: Flows from Islam
6. Dirham flows into northern and eastern Europe and the rhythms of the
slave trade with the Islamic world
7. Trading networks, warlords and hoarders: Islamic coin flows into Poland
in the Viking Age
8. Coin circulation in early Rus and the dynamics of the druzhinas
Part III: Gotland
9. Hoards, silver, context and the Gotlandic alternative
10. Hoards and their archaeological context: Three case studies from
Gotland
11. Gotland: Silver island
12. Silver hoards and society on Viking-Age Gotland: Some thoughts on the
relationship between silver, long-distance trade and local communities
13. From the foreign to the familiar: The arrival and circulation of silver
in Gotlandic society
14. Was there life before death? The Viking settlements on Gotland
15. Social structures and landscape: Gotland's silver hoards in the context
of settlements
Part IV: Comparisons
16. Gotland viewed from the Swedish mainland
17. Silver hoarding on Bornholm and Gotland: Hoards as windows onto
Viking-Age life
18. Coins as an indicator of communications between the British Isles and
Scandinavia in the Viking Age
19. Viking economies and the Great Army: Interpreting the precious metal
finds from Torksey, Lincolnshire
20. Viking-Age bullion from southern Scandinavia and the Baltic region in
Ireland
Part V: Conclusions
21. Some reflections on Gotland: Slavery, slave-traders, and slave-takers