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A Viking market kingdom in Ireland and Britain : trade networks and the importation of a southern Scandinavian silver bullion economy /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Horne, Tom (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2022.
Series:Routledge archaeologies of the Viking world.
Subjects:
Vikings > Commerce > History.
Viking antiquities.
Scandinavia > Economic conditions.
Scandinavia > History > To 1397.
Economic history
Viking antiquities
Vikings > Commerce
Scandinavia
To 1397
History
Table of Contents:
  • Market economics in Viking-age Ireland and Britain
  • A Viking Kingdom of Ireland and Britain
  • Archaeological and historical evidence
  • How Viking networks operate
  • Economic anthropology and Viking-age Scandinavia
  • Silver economies
  • Beyond dirhams: the non-numismatic evidence
  • Case studies
  • Discussion and conclusions.