
Viking-Age Transformations
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The Viking Age was a period of profound change in Scandinavia. As kingdoms were established, Christianity became the encompassing ideological and cosmological framework and towns were formed. This book examines a central backdrop to these changes: the economic transformation of West Scandinavia. With a focus on the development of intensive and organized use of woodlands and alpine regions and domestic raw materials, together with the increasing standardization of products intended for long-distance trade, the volume sheds light on the emergence of a strong interconnectedness between remote rural areas and central markets.
Viking-Age Transformations explores the connection between legal and economic practice, as the rural economy and monetary system developed in conjunction with nascent state power and the legal system. Thematically, the book is organized into sections addressing the nature and extent of trade in both marginal and centralized areas; production and the social, legal and economic aspects of exploiting natural resources and distributing products; and the various markets and sites of trade and consumption.
A theoretically informed and empirically grounded collection that reveals the manner in which relationships of production and consumption transformed Scandinavian society with their influence on the legal and fiscal division of the landscape, this volume will appeal to scholars of archaeology, the history of trade and Viking studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|80 pages
Trade and traders
chapter 4|36 pages
Domestic and exotic materials in early medieval Norwegian towns
chapter 5|14 pages
The price of justice and administration of coinage
part II|79 pages
Production and resources
chapter 6|13 pages
The extensive iron production in Norway in the tenth to thirteenth century
chapter 7|15 pages
Viking-period non-ferrous metalworking and urban commodity production
chapter 8|21 pages
Soapstone vessels and quernstones as commodities in the Viking Age and Middle Ages
chapter 9|28 pages
The Uplands
part III|88 pages
Sites of trade