Viking-Age Trade

Viking-Age Trade

Silver, Slaves and Gotland

Shepard, Jonathan; Jankowiak, Marek; Gruszczynski, Jacek

Taylor & Francis Ltd

10/2020

498

Dura

Inglês

9781138293946

15 a 20 dias

453

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1. Why Gotland?

Part I: Cogs and Drivers

2. Reading between the lines: Tracking slaves and slavery in the early middle ages

3. Slavery in medieval Scandinavia: Some points of departure

4. The fur trade in the early middle ages

5. The dynamics of the drugs trade: A model for the study of the medieval trade in slaves?

Part II: Flows from Islam

6. Dirham flows into northern and eastern Europe and the rhythms of the slave trade with the Islamic world

7. Trading networks, warlords and hoarders: Islamic coin flows into Poland in the Viking Age

8. Coin circulation in early Rus and the dynamics of the druzhinas

Part III: Gotland

9. Hoards, silver, context and the Gotlandic alternative

10. Hoards and their archaeological context: Three case studies from Gotland

11. Gotland: Silver island

12. Silver hoards and society on Viking-Age Gotland: Some thoughts on the relationship between silver, long-distance trade and local communities

13. From the foreign to the familiar: The arrival and circulation of silver in Gotlandic society

14. Was there life before death? The Viking settlements on Gotland

15. Social structures and landscape: Gotland's silver hoards in the context of settlements

Part IV: Comparisons

16. Gotland viewed from the Swedish mainland

17. Silver hoarding on Bornholm and Gotland: Hoards as windows onto Viking-Age life

18. Coins as an indicator of communications between the British Isles and Scandinavia in the Viking Age

19. Viking economies and the Great Army: Interpreting the precious metal finds from Torksey, Lincolnshire

20. Viking-Age bullion from southern Scandinavia and the Baltic region in Ireland

Part V: Conclusions

21. Some reflections on Gotland: Slavery, slave-traders, and slave-takers
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