Architecture, society, and ritual in Viking Age Scandinavia : doors, dwellings, and domestic space /
In this book, Marianne Hem Eriksen explores the social organization of Viking Age Scandinavia through a study of domestic architecture, and in particular, the doorway. A highly charged architectural element, the door is not merely a practical, construction solution. Doors control access, generate mo...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Entry points
- The power of the door
- Fleshing out the past: houses and households of the Viking Age
- Crossing the threshold: interior space
- Networked landscapes: exterior space
- "Lift me over door-hinges and lintels": doorways, bodies, and biographies
- Thresholds to other worlds
- Exits: a social archaeology of the Viking Age.