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Everyday Life in Viking-Age Towns: Social Approaches to Towns in England and Ireland, c. 800-1100





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The study of early medieval towns has frequently concentrated on urban beginnings, the search for broadly applicable definitions of urban characteristics and the chronological development of towns. Far less attention has been paid to the experience of living in towns.

The thirteen chapters in this book bring together the current state of knowledge about Viking-Age towns (c. 800–1100) from both sides of the Irish Sea, focusing on everyday life in and around these emerging settlements. What was it really like to grow up, live, and die in these towns? What did people eat, what did they wear, and how did they make a living for themselves? Although historical sources are addressed, the emphasis of the volume is overwhelmingly archaeological, paying homage to the wealth of new material that has become available since the advent of urban archaeology in the 1960s.
Table of Contents

Section 1: Introductions
Preface: D. M. Hadley and Letty ten Harkel
Chapter 1: Living in Viking-Age towns (David Griffiths)
Chapter 2: Towns and identities in Viking England (Gareth Williams)
Chapter 3: Viking Dublin: enmities, alliances and the cold gleam of silver (Emer Purcell and John Sheehan)

Section 2: Constructing and experiencing urban landscapes
Chapter 4: Beyond longphuirt? Life and death in early Viking-Age Ireland (Stephen H. Harrison)
Chapter 5: From country to town: social transitions in Viking-Age housing (Rebecca Boyd)
Chapter 6: Childhood in Viking and Hiberno-Scandinavian Dublin, 800–1100 (Deirdre McAlister)
Chapter 7: Whither the warrior in Viking-Age towns? (D. M. Hadley)
Chapter 8: Aristocrats, burghers and their markets: patterns in the foundation of Lincoln’s urban churches (David Stocker)

Section 3: Urban trades and activities
Chapter 9: More than just meat: animals in Viking-Age towns (Kristopher Poole)
Chapter 10: No pots please, we’re Vikings: pottery in the southern Danelaw, 850–1000 (Paul Blinkhorn)
Chapter 11: Of towns and trinkets: metalworking and metal dress-accessories in Viking-Age Lincoln (Letty ten Harkel)
Chapter 12: Making a good comb: mercantile identity in 9th- to 11th-century England (Steven P. Ashby)
Chapter 13: Craft and handiwork: wood, antler and bone as an everyday material in Viking-Age Waterford and Cork (Maurice F. Hurley)

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Silk for the Vikings
Marianne Vedeler (Author)

выходит в 2014.
предварительная цена - 20 фунтов, после выхода издания - 25 фунтов.
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The analysis of silk is a fascinating topic for research in itself but here, focusing on the 9th and 10th centuries, Marianne Vedeler takes a closer look at the trade routes and the organization of production, trade and consumption of silk during the Viking Age. Beginning with a presentation of the silk finds in the Oseberg burial, the richest Viking burial find ever discovered, the other silk finds from high status graves in Scandinavia are discussed along with an introduction to the techniques used to produce raw silk and fabrics. Later chapters concentrate on trade and exchange, considering the role of silk items both as trade objects and precious gifts, and in the light of coin finds. The main trade routes of silk to Scandinavia along the Russian rivers, and comparable Russian finds are described and the production and regulation of silk in Persia, early Islamic production areas and the Byzantine Empire discussed. The final chapter considers silk as a social actor in various contexts in Viking societies compared to the Christian west.
Table of Contents

Introduction: Silk in the Viking Age
1. Silk from the ship burial at Oseberg, Norway
2. Silk in Viking graves
3. A short introduction to techniques
4. Exchanging silk
5. The long journey to Scandinavia
6. Persian and early Islamic silk production
7. Silk in Miklagard: Production and regulations in and around The Great City of Constantinople
8. The meaning of silk

List of figures
Literature

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