Research Catalog

Title

The Vikings in Ireland : settlement, trade, and urbanization / Mary A. Valante.

Author

Valante, Mary A.

Publication

Dublin ; Portland, Or. : Four Courts Press, ©2008.

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Details

Description

216 pages : maps; 24 cm

Summary

Over the course of 250 years, Viking raiders & their descendants settled in & urbanized Ireland, connecting the Irish with long-distance trade routes as never before. This book presents an accurate picture of the complex relationship between the town-dwelling Scandinavians & the rural Irish.

Subject

• To 1500
• Vikings > Ireland
• Commerce > History > Medieval, 500-1500
• Commerce
• Commerce > Medieval
• Economic history
• Vikings
• Viking (peuple) > Irlande > 8e s. (fin) > 11e s. (début)
• Vikingar > Irland
• Ireland > History > To 1172
• Ireland > Economic conditions
• Ireland > Commerce > History
• Ireland
• Irland
• Irland > historia
• Irland > ekonomiska förhållanden
• Wikinger

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-205) and index.

Contents

Early Irish economics: manufacturing and trade in the seventh and eighth centuries -- Longphort, dúnad and the earliest Viking settlements in Ireland -- Ireland and Scandinavia in the ninth century: from gateway communities to central places -- The impact of Viking settlement on ninth-century Ireland -- Settlement and turf wars: the Vikings in Ireland, 914-1014 -- International trade and economy in Ireland, 914-1014 -- Local trade and economy in Ireland, 914-1014 -- From Clontarf to the Normans: economy and urbanization in Ireland, 1015-1169 -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 1846820936
• 9781846820939

LCCN

• 2009358982
• 99937645369

OCLC

• ocn191927414
• 191927414
• SCSB-14286246

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library