Actions for Crafts and social networks in Viking towns [electronic resource]

Email RIS file
Bookmark
Report an Issue

Crafts and social networks in Viking towns [electronic resource] / edited by Stephen P. Ashby and Søren Sindbæk

Published
Oxford ; Havertown, PA : Oxbow Books, 2020.
Physical Description
iv, 283 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Additional Creators
Ashby, Steven P. and Sindbæk, Søren M.
Access Online

Availability

I Want It
I Want It

Finding items...

Restrictions on Access
License restrictions may limit access.
Contents
1 Crafting the urban network p. 1 / Steven P. Ashby and Søren M. Sindbæk -- 2 Craft: some pragmatic notes on the study of craft: production and craftspeople in early medieval northern Europe p. 31 / Johan Callmer -- I -- 3 Between domestic circles and urban networks p. 53 / Steven P. Ashby and Søren M. Sindbæk -- 4 The emergence of professional pottery production: York, a case study p. 59 / Ailsa Mainman -- 5 Textile networks in Viking-Age towns of Britain and Ireland p. 83 / Penelope Walton Rogers -- II -- 6 Constructing specialism p. 127 / Steven P. Ashby and Søren M. Sindbæk -- 7 Combmaking in southern and eastern Scandinavia and the Baltic region (c. AD 700-900) p. 133 / Johan Callmer -- 8 A history of combmaking: biographies of innovation in Britain, Ireland and Scandinavia p. 165 / Steven P. Ashby -- 9 The archaeology of blacksmithing and the rise of urbanism in England and northern Europe c. 700-1100 p. 187 / Patrick Ottaway -- III -- 10 Collaboration and expert knowledge p. 225 / Steven P. Ashby and Søven M. Sindbæk -- 11 From bronze-casting to non-ferrous metalworking: complexity, choices and cooperation in urban Scandinavian Viking-Age workshops p. 231 / Unn Pedersen -- 12 Non-ferrous metalworking networks in Scandinavian-influenced towns of Britain and Ireland p. 251 / Penelope Walton Rogers.
Summary
"Crafts and Social Networks in Viking Towns explores the interface between craft, communication networks, and urbanisation in Viking-Age northern Europe. Viking-period towns were the hubs of cross-cultural communication of their age, and innovations in specialised crafts provide archaeologists with some of the best evidence for studying this communication. The integrated results presented in these papers have been made possible through the sustained collaboration of a group of experts with complementary insights into individual crafts. Results emerge from recent scholarly advances in the study of artefacts and production: first, the application of new analytical techniques (e.g. metallographic, isotopic, and biomolecular techniques) and second, the shift in interpretative focus from a concern with object function to considerations of processes of production, and of the social agency of technology. Furthermore, the introduction of social network theory and actor-network theory has redirected attention toward the process of communication, and highlighted the significance of material culture in the learning and transmission of cultural knowledge, including technology. The volume brings together leading UK and Scandinavian archaeological specialists to explore crafted products and workshop-assemblages from Viking towns, in order to clarify how such long-range communication worked in pre-modern northern Europe. Contributors assess the implications for our understanding of early towns and the long-term societal change catalysed by them, including the initial steps towards commercial economies. Results are analysed in relation to social network theory, social and economic history, and models of communication, setting an agenda for further research. The volume provides a landmark statement on our knowledge of Viking-Age craft and communication." --
Subject(s)
Genre(s)
ISBN
9781789251609 paperback
1789251605 paperback
9781789251616 ePub
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
View MARC record | catkey: 41076432