In Austrvegr : the role of the Eastern Baltic in Viking Age communication across the Baltic Sea /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mägi, Marika, 1968- (Author)
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Series:	Northern world ; v. 84.
Subjects:	Vikings > Communication. Scandinavians > Communication. Northmen > Communication. Trade routes > Baltic Sea. Scandinavia > Social life and customs. Scandinavia > History > To 1397. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Viking age cultural contacts across the Baltic Sea : behind the interpretations
Clan-based collectivists or hierarchical individualists? Late prehistoric societies in the Ea; stern Baltic
Making trade : cultural landscapes and communication routes
The historical reality : places, place names, and ethnonyms in written sources
Networks take shape : communication through the Eastern Baltic 600-850
West goes east : Viking age long-distance communication and the Eastern Baltic 850-ca. 1000
Between consolidating states. The Eastern Baltic areas in the 11th and 12th centuries
Summing up and conclusions.