Viking worlds things, spaces and movement
Fourteen papers explore a variety of inter-disciplinary approaches to understanding the Viking past, both in Scandinavia and in the Viking diaspora. Contributions employ both traditional inter- or multi-disciplinarian perspectives such as using historical sources, Icelandic sagas and Eddic poetry an...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxbow Books
2014.
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| Edición: | Hardcover edition |
| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b47399399*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- From Ginnungagap to the Ragnarök: archaeologies of the Viking worlds / Neil Price
- Part I. Real and ideal spaces
- Powerful space: the iron-age hall and its development during the Viking age / Lydia Carstens
- Húsdrápa: a Skaldic poem in context / Joanne Shortt Butler
- Courtyard sites in western Norway: central assembly places and judicial institutions in the late iron age / Asle Bruen Olsen
- Place names and settlement development around an aristocratic residence: thoughts from an on-going study of the hinterland of Tissø / Sofie Laurine Albris
- The powerful ring: door rings, oath rings and the sacral place / Marianne Hem Eriksen
- Part II. Gendered things, gendered spaces?
- She came from another place: on the burial of a young girl in Birka / Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson
- Roles and perceptions of shielings and the mediation of gender identities in Viking and medieval Iceland / Patrycja Kupiec and Karen Milek
- "Truth" and reproduction of knowledge: critical thoughts on the interpretation and understanding of iron-age keys / Heidi Lund Berg
- Part II. Production, exchange and movement
- Manors and markets: continental perspectives on Viking-age trade and exchange / Bjarne Gaut
- Making the cloth that binds us: the role of textile production in producing Viking-age identities / Ben Cartwright
- Leadworking in Viking-age Norway / Unn Pedersen
- Isotopic analysis of silver from Hedeby and some nearby hoards: preliminary results / Stephen Merkel, Andreas Hauptmann, Volker Hilberg and Robert Lehmann
- Vikings in Poland: a critical overview / Leszek Gardela.
