Everyday life in Viking-age towns : social approaches to towns in England and Ireland, c. 800-1100 /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hadley, D. M. (Dawn M.), 1967-, Ten Harkel, Letty
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oakville, Connecticut : Oxbow Books ; David Brown Book Company, [2013]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Living in Viking-age towns / David Griffiths
  • Towns and identities in Viking England / Gareth Williams
  • Viking Dublin: enmities, alliances and the cold gleam of silver / Emer Purcell and John Sheehan
  • Constructing and experiencing urban landscapes.
  • Beyond Longphuirt? Life and death in early Viking-age Ireland / Stephen H. Harrison
  • From country to town: social transitions in Viking-age housing / Rebecca Boyd
  • Childhood in Viking and Hiberno-Scandinavian Dublin, 800-1100 / Deirdre McAlister
  • Whither the warrior in Viking-age towns? / D.M. Hadley
  • Aristocrats, burghers and their markets: patterns in the foundation of Lincoln's urban churches / David Stocker
  • Urban trades and activities.
  • More than just meat: animals in Viking-age towns / Kristopher Poole
  • No pots please, we're Vikings: pottery in the southern Danelaw, 850-1000 / Paul Blinkhorn
  • Of towns and trinkets: metalworking and metal dress-accessories in Viking-age Lincoln / Letty Ten Harkel
  • Making a good comb: mercantile identity in 9th- to 11th-century England / Steven P. Ashby
  • Craft and handiwork: wood, antler and bone as an everyday material in Viking-age Waterford and Cork / Maurice F. Hurley.