Viking-Age Transformations (eBook, ePUB)

Trade, Craft and Resources in Western Scandinavia
Redaktion: Glørstad, Zanette T.; Loftsgarden, Kjetil

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Viking Age was a period of profound change, as kingdoms were established, Christianity became the encompassing ideological and cosmological framework and towns were formed. This book examines the central backdrop to these changes: the economic transformation of West Scandinavia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317001898
• Artikelnr.: 48418097

Autorenporträt

Zanette T. Glørstad is Associate Professor in the Department of Archaeology, Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, Norway. Kjetil Loftsgarden is a research fellow in the Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, University of Bergen, Norway.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and acknowledgements
Abbreviations
List of Contributors
1. Viking-Age economic transformations: the West-Scandinavian case
Dagfinn Skre
Part I - Trade and traders
2. Approaching trade in pre-state and early state societies
Eivind Heldaas Seland
3. The use of silver as a medium of exchange in Jämtland, c. 875-1050
Olof Holm
4. Domestic and exotic materials in early mMedieval Norwegian towns: an
archaeological perspective on production, procurement and consumption
Gitte Hansen
5. The price of justice and administration of coinage
Svein Gullbekk and Frode Iversen
Part II - Production and resources
6. The extensive iron production in Norway in the tenth to thirteenth
century: a regional perspective
Ole Tveiten and Kjetil Loftsgarden
7. Viking-period non-ferrous metalworking and urban commodity production
Unn Pedersen
8. Soapstone vessels and quernstones as commodities in the Viking Age and
the Middle Ages
Irene Baug
9. The Uplands: the deepest of forest and the highest of mountains -
resource exploitation and landscape management in the Viking Age and early
Middle Ages in southern Norway
Kathrine Stene and Vivian Wangen
Part III - Sites of trade
10. A view from the valley: Langeid in Setesdal, South Norway - a
Viking-Age trade station along a mercantile highway
Zanette Tsigaridas Glørstad and Camilla Cecilie Wenn
11. Heimdalsjordet: trade, production and communication
Jan Bill and Christian Løchsen Rødsrud
12. The skeid and other assemblies in the Norwegian 'Mountain Land'
Kjetil Loftsgarden, Morten Ramstad and Frans-Arne Stylegar
13. The urban hinterland: interaction and law-areas in Viking and medieval
Norway
Frode Iversen
Index