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Viking-Age Transformations

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Viking-Age Transformations book

Trade, Craft and Resources in Western Scandinavia

Viking-Age Transformations

DOI link for Viking-Age Transformations

Viking-Age Transformations book

Trade, Craft and Resources in Western Scandinavia
Edited ByZanette T. Glørstad, Kjetil Loftsgarden
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2017
eBook Published 12 May 2017
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315548197
Pages 302 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315548197
SubjectsHumanities, Social Sciences
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Glørstad, Z. (Ed.), Loftsgarden, K. (Ed.). (2017). Viking-Age Transformations. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315548197

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

chapter 1|27 pages

Viking-Age economic transformations

The West-Scandinavian case
ByDagfinn Skre

part I|80 pages

Trade and traders

chapter 2|11 pages

Approaching trade in pre-state and early state societies

ByEivind Heldaas Seland

chapter 3|17 pages

The use of silver as a medium of exchange in Jämtland, c. 875–1050

ByOlof Holm

chapter 4|36 pages

Domestic and exotic materials in early medieval Norwegian towns

An archaeological perspective on production, procurement and consumption
ByGitte Hansen

chapter 5|14 pages

The price of justice and administration of coinage

ByFrode Iversen, Svein H. Gullbekk

part II|79 pages

Production and resources

chapter 6|13 pages

The extensive iron production in Norway in the tenth to thirteenth century

A regional perspective
ByOle Tveiten, Kjetil Loftsgarden

chapter 7|15 pages

Viking-period non-ferrous metalworking and urban commodity production

ByUnn Pedersen

chapter 8|21 pages

Soapstone vessels and quernstones as commodities in the Viking Age and Middle Ages

ByIrene Baug

chapter 9|28 pages

The Uplands

The deepest of forests and the highest of mountains – resource exploitation and landscape management in the Viking Age and early Middle Ages in southern Norway
ByKathrine Stene, Vivian Wangen

part III|88 pages

Sites of trade

chapter 10|21 pages

A view from the valley

Langeid in Setesdal, South Norway – a Viking-Age trade station along a mercantile highway
ByZanette T. Glørstad, Camilla Cecilie Wenn

chapter 11|20 pages

Heimdalsjordet

Trade, production and communication
ByJan Bill, Christian Løchsen Rødsrud

chapter 12|18 pages

The skeid and other assemblies in the Norwegian ‘Mountain Land’

ByKjetil Loftsgarden, Morten Ramstad, Frans-Arne Stylegar

chapter 13|27 pages

The urban hinterland

Interaction and law-areas in Viking and medieval Norway
ByFrode Iversen
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