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Zusatztext "The volume is well-presented and sufficiently illustrated with some full color images. The many maps and tables are clear to use and internally consistent. With good production values! the volume is well edited and includes several go-to papers for the subject! mostly for the serious student of the subject and for scholars with university classes in mind. This fine volume is indeed a welcome addition to the scholarship of this exciting era."- Colleen Batey! University of Glasgow! Scotland inThe Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology! 2016 Informationen zum Autor James H. Barrett, Sarah Jane Gibbon Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgements List of Contributors Chapter 1: Maritime Societies and the Transformation of the Viking Age and the Medieval World Chapter 2: Sails and the Cognitive Roles of Viking Age Ships Chapter 3: Trade and Trust in the Baltic Sea Area During the Viking Age Chapter 4: Bound for the Eastern Baltic: Trade and Centres AD 800-1200 Chapter 5: Between East and West: Economy and Society on the Island of Gotland Chapter 6: Viking Age Bornholm: An Island on the Crossways Chapter 7: Trading Hubs or Political Centres of Power? Maritime Focial Sites in Early Sweden Chapter 8: Accessibility and Vulnerability: Maritime Defence and Political Allegiance on the Vikbolander Peninsula, Ostergotland, Sweden Chapter 9: Dorestad as a Fluviatile Society 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 Landscape Chapter 11: The Maritime Cultural Landscape of Early Medieval Northumbria: Small Landing Places and the Emergence of Coastal Urbanism Chapter 12: Post-Substantivist Production and Trade: Specialized Sites for Trade and Craft Production in Scandinavia AD c.700-1000 Chapter 13: Late Iron Age Boat Rituals and Ritual Boats in Norway Chapter 14: Bergen AD 1020/30-1170: Between Plans and Reality Chapter 15: Steatite Vessels and the Viking Diaspora: Migrants, Travellers and Cultural Change in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland Chapter 16: Status and Identity in Norse Settlements: A Cast Study from Orkney Chapter 17: The Viking Occupation of the Hebrides: Evidence from the Excavations at Bornais, South Uist Chapter 18: Disentangling Trade: Combs int he North and Irish Seas in the Long Viking Age Chapter 19: Dealing with Deer: Norse Responses to Scottish Island Cervids Chapter 20: 'Warrior Graves'? The Weapon Burial Rite in Viking Age Britain and Ireland Chapter 21: The Threatening Wave: Norse Poetry and the Scottish Islands Chapter 22: Sea Kings, Kingdoms and the Tides of Change: Man and the Isles and Medieval European Change, AD c.1100-1265 Chapter 23: The Sea Power of the Western Isles of Scotland in the Late Medieval Period Chapter 24: Coastal Communities and Diaspora Identities in Viking Afe Ireland Index ...
