1st Edition
Maritime Societies of the Viking and Medieval World
Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Chapter 1: Maritime Societies and the Transformation of the Viking Age and the Medieval World
Chapter 2: Sails and the Cognitive Roles of Viking Age Ships
Chapter 3: Trade and Trust in the Baltic Sea Area During the Viking Age
Chapter 4: Bound for the Eastern Baltic: Trade and Centres AD 800-1200
Chapter 5: Between East and West: Economy and Society on the Island of Gotland
Chapter 6: Viking Age Bornholm: An Island on the Crossways
Chapter 7: Trading Hubs or Political Centres of Power? Maritime Focial Sites in Early Sweden
Chapter 8: Accessibility and Vulnerability: Maritime Defence and Political Allegiance on the Vikbolander Peninsula, Ostergotland, Sweden
Chapter 9: Dorestad as a Fluviatile Society
Chapter 10: Maritime Environment and Social Identities in Medieval Coastal Flanders: The Management of Water and Environment and its Consequences for the Local Community and Landscape
Chapter 11: The Maritime Cultural Landscape of Early Medieval Northumbria: Small Landing Places and the Emergence of Coastal Urbanism
Chapter 12: Post-Substantivist Production and Trade: Specialized Sites for Trade and Craft Production in Scandinavia AD c.700-1000
Chapter 13: Late Iron Age Boat Rituals and Ritual Boats in Norway
Chapter 14: Bergen AD 1020/30-1170: Between Plans and Reality
Chapter 15: Steatite Vessels and the Viking Diaspora: Migrants, Travellers and Cultural Change in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland
Chapter 16: Status and Identity in Norse Settlements: A Cast Study from Orkney
Chapter 17: The Viking Occupation of the Hebrides: Evidence from the Excavations at Bornais, South Uist
Chapter 18: Disentangling Trade: Combs int he North and Irish Seas in the Long Viking Age
Chapter 19: Dealing with Deer: Norse Responses to Scottish Island Cervids
Chapter 20: 'Warrior Graves'? The Weapon Burial Rite in Viking Age Britain and Ireland
Chapter 21: The Threatening Wave: Norse Poetry and the Scottish Islands
Chapter 22: Sea Kings, Kingdoms and the Tides of Change: Man and the Isles and Medieval European Change, AD c.1100-1265
Chapter 23: The Sea Power of the Western Isles of Scotland in the Late Medieval Period
Chapter 24: Coastal Communities and Diaspora Identities in Viking Afe Ireland
Index
Biography
James H. Barrett, Sarah Jane Gibbon
"The volume is well-presented and sufficiently illustrated with some full color images. The many maps and tables are clear to use and internally consistent. With good production values, the volume is well edited and includes several go-to papers for the subject, mostly for the serious student of the subject and for scholars with university classes in mind. This fine volume is indeed a welcome addition to the scholarship of this exciting era."
- Colleen Batey, University of Glasgow, Scotland in The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 2016
