Exploring Ireland's Viking-age towns : houses and homes / Rebecca Boyd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyd, Rebecca, author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Routledge archaeologies of the Viking world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ireland--Antiquities.

Ireland.

Ireland--Civilization--To 1172.

Dwellings--Ireland--History--To 1500.

Dwellings.

Cities and towns, Viking--Ireland.

Cities and towns, Viking.

Cities and towns, Medieval--Ireland.

Cities and towns, Medieval.

Viking antiquities--Ireland.

Viking antiquities.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Ireland.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Civilization, Viking--Ireland.

Civilization, Viking.

Antiquities.

Civilization.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

xv, 273 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

Summary:

"Exploring Ireland's Viking-Age Towns explores the emergence of towns, urban lifestyles and urban identities in Ireland coinciding with the arrival of the Vikings and the appearance of the post-and-wattle Type 1 house. These houses reflect this crucial transition to urban living with its attendant changes for individuals, households, and society. Exploring Ireland's Viking-Age Towns uses household archaeology as a lens to explore the materiality, variability and day-to-day experiences of living in these houses. It moves from the intimate scale of individual households to the larger scale of Ireland's earliest urban communities. For the first time, this book considers how these houses were more than just buildings: they were homes, important places where people lived, worked and died. These new towns were busy places, with a multitude of people, ideas and things. This book uses the mass of archaeological data to undertake comparative analyses of houses and properties, artefact distribution patterns and access analysis studies to interrogate some 500 Viking-Age urban houses. This analysis is structured in three parts, an investigation of the houses, the households and the town. Exploring Ireland's Viking-Age Towns discusses how these new urban households managed their homes to create a sense of place and belonging in these new environments and allow themselves to develop a new, urban identity. This book is suited to advanced students and specialists of the Viking Age in Ireland but archaeologists and historians of the early medieval and Viking worlds will find much of interest here. It will also appeal to readers with interests in the archaeology of house and home, households, identities and urban studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : an archaeology of houses, of towns and of households

Ireland's 9th century Viking-Age settlements

Ireland's 10th to 12th century Viking-Age towns

Exploring the houses

Artefact distribution studies : visible and invisible work practices

Access analysis : moving around the house

Exploring the properties

Urban worlds and urban lives

Ireland's Viking-Age towns : where next?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Boyd, Rebecca. Exploring Ireland's Viking-Age towns

ISBN:

9780367482787

0367482789

9781032591094

1032591099

OCLC:

1390443601

Publisher Number:

99995611763