| Land, Sea and Home: Settlement in the Viking Period Contributor(s): Hines, John (Editor), Lane, Alan (Editor), Redknap, Mark (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1905981856 ISBN-13: 9781905981854 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $60.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2004 Annotation: The 28 papers in this volume explore the practical life, domestic settings, landscapes and seascapes of the Viking world. Their geographical horizons stretch from Iceland to Russia, with particular emphasis on new discoveries in the Scandinavian homelands and in Britain and Ireland. With a rich combination of disciplinary perspectives, new interpretations are presented of evidence for buildings and technology, navigation, trade and military organisation, the ideology of place, and cultural interactions and comparisons between Viking and native groups. Together, these reveal the multivalent importance of settlement archaeology and history for an understanding of the pivotal phase within the Middle Ages that was the Viking period. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Archaeology - History | Europe - Scandinavia - History | Europe - Medieval |
| Dewey: 948.022 |
| Series: Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 6.89" W x 9.63" (2.14 lbs) 488 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Cultural Region - Scandinavian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book provides a realistic historical and geographical perspective to begin closest to the Scandinavian homelands of Vikings and the Viking ideology and material culture, by looking at new research into aspects of their use of the sea, maritime communications and trade. |
