Bodies, Beings, and the Multiple Burial Rite of the Western Viking World

Bodies, Beings, and the Multiple Burial Rite of the Western Viking World
Title Bodies, Beings, and the Multiple Burial Rite of the Western Viking World PDF eBook
Author Claire F. Ratican
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 395
Release 2024-09-25
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1040051057

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This book explores multiple burials, the presence of more than one individual within a grave, within the Viking Age mortuary landscape throughout Scandinavia and the lands of their westward diaspora. Even though a number of spectacular examples have captured the imagination of professionals and the public alike, multiple burials have not been the subject of dedicated and systematic archaeological investigation. By adopting a perspective grounded in relationality and an analysis that centres on three types of beings—humans, animals and things—this book explores the ways in which each being entered into entangled relationships with the other, thereby mutually constituting the nature of their existence in Viking Age minds. For the first time, the corpus of Viking Age multiple burials located across the lands of the Western Scandinavian diaspora and their counterparts in the urban trading centres of Kaupang (Norway) and Hedeby (formerly Denmark) is synthesised into a single study, firmly situating the multiple burial rite within the wider suite of normative burial practices observed across the Viking World. The book meaningfully engages with a developing discourse in the Scandinavian tradition increasingly revealing the fluidity of being across human, animal and thing bodies in Iron Age mentalities and material culture. Ultimately, it poses the question: are humans, animals, and things similar forms of bodies and beings in the Viking World? This book will appeal to students and researchers of death and burial in the Viking World.

A Viking Market Kingdom in Ireland and Britain

A Viking Market Kingdom in Ireland and Britain
Title A Viking Market Kingdom in Ireland and Britain PDF eBook
Author Tom Horne
Publisher Routledge
Pages 330
Release 2021-12-30
Genre History
ISBN 100053314X

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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 Blomkvist’s network-kingdoms with Sindbæk’s nodal market-networks, it is argued that the political and economic character of Viking-Age Britain and Ireland – my ‘Insular Scandinavia’ – is best understood if Dublin and Jórvík are seen as being established as nodes of a market-based network-kingdom. Based on a dataset relating to the then developing bullion economies of the central and eastern Scandinavian worlds and southern Scandinavia in particular, it is argued that war-band leaders from, or familiar with, ‘Danish’ markets like Hedeby and Kaupang transposed to Insular Scandinavia the concept of polities based on establishment of markets and the protection of routeways between them. Using this book, readers can think of interlinked Dublin and Great Army elites creating an Insular version of a Danish-style nodal market kingdom based on commerce and silver currencies. A Viking Market Kingdom in Ireland and Britain will help specialist researchers and students of Viking archaeology make connections between southern Scandinavia and the market economy of the Uí Ímair (‘descendants of Ívarr’) operating out of the twin nodes of Dublin and Jórvík via the initial establishment of Hiberno-Scandinavian longphuirt and the related winter-camps of the Viking Great Army.

Age of Wolf and Wind

Age of Wolf and Wind
Title Age of Wolf and Wind PDF eBook
Author Davide Zori
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 521
Release 2024
Genre Education
ISBN 0190916060

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Age of Wolf and Wind provides a new introduction to the Viking Age that capitalizes on recent archaeological discoveries and breakthroughs in the application of analytical techniques from the natural sciences. Author Davide Zori, an interdisciplinary archaeologist with fieldwork experience across the Viking world, delves into key questions of the Viking Age, such as the motivations of Scandinavians to board open wooden ships to raid England and cross the North Atlantic in search of new worlds beyond Europe. Each chapter offers new conclusions about the Vikings--their views on death, their raiding tactics, their laving feasts, their forging of powerful medieval states--by juxtaposing evidence from written texts, archaeology, and new scientific analyses.

Early Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries

Early Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries
Title Early Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries PDF eBook
Author Duncan Sayer
Publisher
Pages
Release 2020
Genre Anglo-Saxons
ISBN 9781526135575

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Viking encounters

Viking encounters
Title Viking encounters PDF eBook
Author Anne Pedersen
Publisher Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Pages 636
Release 2020-09-25
Genre History
ISBN 877184936X

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The Viking Congresses bring together scholars of archaeology, philology, history, toponymy, numismatics and a number of other disciplines to discuss the Viking Age from a variety of viewpoints. This volume contains 44 peer-reviewed papers selected from those presented at the 18th Viking Congress held in Denmark in August 2017. The contributors take up the interdisciplinary challenge, and the papers cover a wide range of subjects, rooted in the past, but also connecting to the present.

Thinking through the Body

Thinking through the Body
Title Thinking through the Body PDF eBook
Author Yannis Hamilakis
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 280
Release 2012-12-06
Genre Social Science
ISBN 146150693X

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What is the archaeology of the body and how can it change the way we experience the past? This book, one of the first to appear on the subject, records and evaluates the emergence of this new direction of cross-disciplinary research, and examines the potential of incorporating some of its insights into archaeology. It will be of interest to students, researchers, and teachers in archaeology, as well as in cognate disciplines such as anthropology and history.

Architecture, Society, and Ritual in Viking Age Scandinavia

Architecture, Society, and Ritual in Viking Age Scandinavia
Title Architecture, Society, and Ritual in Viking Age Scandinavia PDF eBook
Author Marianne Hem Eriksen
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 299
Release 2019-02-28
Genre Architecture
ISBN 1108497225

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This book explores households, social organization, and rituals in Viking Age Scandinavia through a study of dwellings and their doorways.