The Viking Age, from c.750 to 1050 CE, was an era of major social
change in Scandinavia. By the end of this period of sweeping
transformation, Scandinavia, once a pagan periphery, had been firmly
integrated into occidental Europe. Archaeological remains offer
evidence of this process, which included and intertwined with
Christianisation, state formation, and the dawn of urbanisation in
Scandinavia. In this volume, Sven Kalmring offers an interdisciplinary
and geographically wide-ranging approach to understanding the
emergence of towns and commerce in Viking-age Scandinavia and their
eventual demise by the end of the period. Using the towns of Hedeby,
Birka, Kaupang, and Ribe as case studies, he also tracks the diverging
characteristics of these urban communities against the background of
traditional social structures in the Viking world. Instead of tracing
the results of Viking Age urbanisation, or mapping that process by
establishing economic networks, Kalmring focusses on the very reasons
behind the emergence of towns, and their eventual decline.
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ISBN
9781009298049
Publisert
2024
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Cambridge University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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