Research Catalog

Title

Social approaches to Viking studies / edited by Ross Samson.

Publication

Glasgow : Cruithne Press, 1991.

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Details

Additional Authors

Samson, Ross.

Description

xiii, 240 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Social Approaches to Viking Studies deals with various themes drawn from social history and social theory, particularly from anthropology. Historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists from Scandinavia and North America discuss early medieval Scandinavian societies, deriving their inspiration and analytical approaches from structuralism, cosmology, feminism, economic anthropology, and Marxism, among others. The effects of nationalism and Victorian gender ideologies on past historical writings are explored and new directions for future work are suggested. Whether discussing Icelandic Family Sagas or Westland bronze cauldrons, all the contributors explore social meanings in, and organisation of, Viking societies in new and stimulating ways."--Jacket.

Subject

• 500 - 1500
• Vikings > Congresses
• Social history > Medieval, 500-1500 > Congresses
• Social history > Medieval
• Vikings
• Scandinavistiek
• Vikingen
• Vroege middeleeuwen
• Receptie

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• Includes papers presented at a seminar "New perspectives on Viking studies" held in Glasgow in September 1988.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-234) and index.

Contents

-- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- The Case of the Horned Helmets -- Sponsors, Writers, and Readers of Early Norse Literature (starting p. 3) / Lars Lonnroth -- The Icelandic Family Sagas as Totemic Artefacts (starting p. 11) / E. Paul Durrenberger -- Marriage Exchange and Social Structure in Old Norse Mythology (starting p. 21) / Torben A. Vestergaard -- Pseudo-Procreation Myths in Old Norse: an Anthropological Approach (starting p. 35) / Margaret Clunies Ross -- Some Aspects of Christianisation in Central Sweden (starting p. 45) / Anne-Sofie Graslund -- The Swedish Image of Viking Age Women: Stereotype, Generalisation, and Beyond (starting p. 53) / Elisabeth Arwill-Nordbladh -- Women, Kinship, and the Basis of Power in the Norwegian Viking Age (starting p. 65) / Liv Helga Dommasnes -- Women as Actors in North European Viking Age Trade (starting p. 75) / Anne Stalsberg -- Economic Anthropology and Vikings (starting p. 87) / Ross Samson -- Gift-Giving, Hoarding, and Outdoings (starting p. 97) / Elisabeth Vestergaard -- Gift-Exchange in Early Iron Age Norse Society (starting p. 105) / Asa Dahlin Hauken -- Money and Media in Viking Age Scandinavia (starting p. 113) / Marit Gaimster -- Fighting with Silver: Rethinking Trading, Raiding, and Hoarding (starting p. 123) / Ross Samson -- Social and Political Power in Sweden 1000-1300: Predatory Incursions, Royal Taxation, and the Formation of a Feudal State (starting p. 137) / Thomas Lindkvist -- Who Ruled the Region East of the Skagerrak in the Eleventh Century? (starting p. 147) / Carl Lofving -- The Name of the Witch: Sagas, Sorcery, and Social Context (starting p. 157) / Gisli Palsson -- Hrothgar's Noble Rule: Love and the Great Legislator (starting p. 169) / John M. Hill -- Slavery in the Danelaw (starting p. 179) / David Pelteret -- The South Saami Culture: in Archaeological Finds and West Nordic Written Sources from AD 800-1300 (starting p. 191) / Inger Zachrisson -- The Vikings and Russia: Some New Directions and Approaches to an Old Problem (starting p. 201) / Thomas S. Noonan -- The Vikings in North America: Myth and Reality (starting p. 207) / Birgitta Linderoth Wallace -- Bibliography (starting p. 221) -- Index (starting p. 235)

ISBN

• 1873448007
• 9781873448007

LCCN

91180382

OCLC

• ocm24185898
• 24185898
• SCSB-1955970

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library