Architecture, Society, and Ritual in Viking Age Scandinavia - Doors, Dwellings, and Domestic Space

This book explores households, social organization, and rituals in Viking Age Scandinavia through a study of dwellings and their doorways.

List of contents

Part I. Opening Doors to the Viking Age: 1. Entry points; 2. The power of the door; Part II. Ordering Settlements and Landscapes: 3. Fleshing out the past: houses and households of the Viking Age; 4. Crossing the threshold: interior space; 5. Networked landscapes: exterior space; Part III. Ritual Objects, Ritual Spaces: 6. 'Lift me over door-hinges and lintels': doorways, bodies, and biographies; 7. Thresholds to other worlds; 8. Exits: a social archaeology of the Viking Age; Appendix.

About the author

Marianne Hem Eriksen is Associate Professor of Archaeology at the University of Oslo. She is a research fellow (2017–2019) at the University of Cambridge. An elected member of the Young Researchers of Norway, under the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, she was awarded His Majesty the King's Gold Medal for Younger Scholars of Excellence in 2016.

Summary

This book takes a fresh perspective on the Viking Age, offering a social archaeology of the Viking home. A highly charged architectural element - the door - is used as a gateway to generate new knowledge of households and society in Viking Age Scandinavia, fleshing out everyday life and domestic ritual.

Product details

• Authors: Marianne Hem Eriksen, Marianne Hem (Universitetet I Oslo) Eriksen, ERIKSEN MARIANNE HE
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781108497220
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49722-0
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Europe, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Social and cultural anthropology, Archaeology by period / region, c 500 to c 1000 CE, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Medieval European archaeology