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Informationen zum Autor Zanette T. Glørstad is Associate Professor in the Department of Archaeology, Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, Norway. Kjetil Loftsgarden is a research fellow in the Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, University of Bergen, Norway. Klappentext The Viking Age was a period of profound change, as kingdoms were established, Christianity became the encompassing ideological and cosmological framework and towns were formed. This book examines the central backdrop to these changes: the economic transformation of West Scandinavia. Zusammenfassung The Viking Age was a period of profound change, as kingdoms were established, Christianity became the encompassing ideological and cosmological framework and towns were formed. This book examines the central backdrop to these changes: the economic transformation of West Scandinavia. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and acknowledgements Abbreviations List of Contributors 1. Viking-Age economic transformations: the West-Scandinavian case Dagfinn Skre Part I – Trade and traders 2. Approaching trade in pre-state and early state societies Eivind Heldaas Seland 3. The use of silver as a medium of exchange in Jämtland, c. 875–1050 Olof Holm 4. Domestic and exotic materials in early mMedieval Norwegian towns: an archaeological perspective on production, procurement and consumption Gitte Hansen 5. The price of justice and administration of coinage Svein Gullbekk and Frode Iversen Part II – Production and resources 6. The extensive iron production in Norway in the tenth to thirteenth century: a regional perspective Ole Tveiten and Kjetil Loftsgarden 7. Viking-period non-ferrous metalworking and urban commodity production Unn Pedersen 8. Soapstone vessels and quernstones as commodities in the Viking Age and the Middle Ages Irene Baug 9. The Uplands: the deepest of forest and the highest of mountains – resource exploitation and landscape management in the Viking Age and early Middle Ages in southern Norway Kathrine Stene and Vivian Wangen Part III – Sites of trade 10. A view from the valley: Langeid in Setesdal, South Norway – a Viking-Age trade station along a mercantile highway Zanette Tsigaridas Glørstad and Camilla Cecilie Wenn 11. Heimdalsjordet: trade, production and communication Jan Bill and Christian Løchsen Rødsrud 12. The skeid and other assemblies in the Norwegian ‘Mountain Land’ Kjetil Loftsgarden, Morten Ramstad and Frans-Arne Stylegar 13. The urban hinterland: interaction and law-areas in Viking and medieval Norway Frode Iversen Index ...
