Maritime societies of the Viking and medieval world / edited by James H. Barrett and Sarah Jane Gibbon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barrett, James H. (James Harold)

Gibbon, Sarah Jane, 1976-

Series:

Society for Medieval Archaeology monograph ; 37.

Society for Medieval Archaeology Monographs, 0583-9106 ; 37

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology, Medieval.

Baltic Sea--Antiquities.

Baltic Sea.

North Sea--Antiquities.

North Sea.

Irish Sea--Antiquities.

Irish Sea.

Baltic Sea--Civilization.

North Sea--Civilization.

Irish Sea--Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (396 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

"This book is a study of communities that drew their identity and livelihood from their relationships with water during a pivotal time in the creation of the social, economic and political landscapes of northern Europe. It focuses on the Baltic, North and Irish Seas in the Viking Age (AD 790-1050) and early Middle Ages (AD 1050-1200), with a few later examples (such as the Scottish Lordship of the Isles) included to help illuminate less well-documented earlier centuries"-- Source other than Library of Congress.

Contents:

ch. 1. Maritime societies and the transformation of the Viking Age and medieval world / by James H. Barrett

chapter 2. Sails and the cognitive roles of Viking Age ships / by Christer Westerdahl

chapter 3. Trade and trust in the Baltic Sea area during the Viking Age / by Ingrid Gustin

chapter 4. Bound for the Eastern Baltic : trade and centres AD 800-1200 / by Marika Magi

chapter 5. Between East and West : economy and society on the island of Gotland / by Dan Carlsson

chapter 6. Viking Age Bornholm : an island on the crossways / by Magdalena Naum

chapter 7. Trading hubs or political centres of power? Maritime focal sites in early Sweden / by Stefan Brink

chapter 8. Accessibility and vulnerability : maritime defence and political allegiance on the vikbolandet Peninsula, Ostergotland, Sweden / by Martin Rundkvist

chapter 9. Dorestad as a Fluviatile society / by Annemarieke Willemsen

chapter 10. Maritime environment and social identities in medieval coastal Flanders : the management of water and environment and its consequences for the local community and the landscape / by Dries Tys

chapter 11. The maritime cultural landscape of early medieval Northumbria : small landing places and the emergence of coastal urbanism / by Pieterjan Deckers

chapter 12. Post-substantivist production and trade : specialized sites for trade and craft production in Scandinavia AD c700-1000 / by Dagfinn Skre

chapter 13. Late Iron Age boat rituals and ritual boats in Norway / by SÆbjØrg Walaker Nordeide

chapter 14. Bergen AD 1020/30-1170 : between plans and reality / by Gitte Hansen

chapter 15. Steatite vessels and the Viking diaspora : migrants, travellers and cultural change in early medieval Britain and Ireland / by Søren Michael Sindbµk

chapter 16. Status and identity in Norse settlements : a case study from Orkney / by David Griffiths

chapter 17. The Viking occupation of the Hebrides : evidence from the excavations at Bornais, South Uist / by Niall M. Sharples. [and others]

chapter 18. Disentangling trade : combs in the North and Irish Seas in the long Viking Age / by Steven P. Ashby

chapter 19. Dealing with deer : Norse responses to Scottish Isles cervids / by Jacqui Mulville

chapter 20. 'Warrior graves'? The weapon burial rite in viking age Britain and Ireland / by Stephen H. Harrison

chapter 21. The threatening wave : Norse poetry and the Scottish Isles / by Judith Jesch

chapter 22. Sea Kings, maritime kingdoms and the tides of change : man and the isles and medieval European change, AD c1100-1265 / by R. Andrew McDonald

chapter 23. The sea power of the western isles of Scotland in the late medieval period / by David H. Caldwell

chapter 24. Coastal communities and diaspora identities in Viking Age Ireland / by Clare Downham.

Notes:

First published 2015 by Maney Publishing.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-315-63075-3

1-317-24797-3

1-317-24798-1

9781315630755

OCLC:

964526980