1st Edition
A Viking Market Kingdom in Ireland and Britain Trade Networks and the Importation of a Southern Scandinavian Silver Bullion Economy
By Tom Horne
Copyright 2022
310 Pages
51 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
310 Pages
51 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
310 Pages
51 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Viking-Age trade, network theory, silver economies, kingdom formation, and the Scandinavian raiding and settlement of Ireland and Britain are all popular subjects. However, few have looked for possible connections between these phenomena, something this book suggests were closely related.
By allying Blomkvist’s network-kingdoms with Sindbæk’s nodal market-networks, it is argued that the... Read more
Introduction 1. Market economics in Viking-Age Ireland and Britain 2. A Viking kingdom of Ireland and Britain 3. Archaeological and historical evidence 4. How Viking networks operate 5. Economic anthropology and Viking-Age Scandinavia 6. Silver economies 7. Beyond dirhams: the non-numismatic evidence 8. Case studies 9. Discussion and conclusions
Biography
Tom Horne received an MLitt in Medieval Archaeology and a PhD in Viking-Age trade from the University of Glasgow, having read Ancient and Modern History at Balliol College, Oxford.
