ISBN:
1789251613
,
9781789251616
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (283 pages)
,
illustrations
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Crafts and social networks in Viking towns
DDC:
302.3
Keywords:
Cities and towns, Viking
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Social networks History To 1500
;
Civilization, Viking
;
Handicraft History To 1500
;
Cities and towns, Viking
;
Civilization, Viking
;
History
;
Handicraft
;
Social networks
;
Northern Europe
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Crafting the urban network / Steven P. Ashby and Søren M. Sindbæk -- Craft: some pragmatic notes on the study of craft production and craftspeople in early medieval northern Europe / Johan Callmer -- Between domestic circles and urban networks / Steven P. Ashby and Søren M. Sindbæk -- The emergence of professional pottery production: York, a case study / Ailsa Mainman -- Textile networks in Viking-Age towns of Britain and Ireland / Penelope Walton Rogers -- Constructing specialism / Steven P. Ashby and Søren M. Sindbæk -- Combmaking in southern and eastern Scandinavia and the Baltic region (c. AD 700-900) / Johan Callmer -- A history of combmaking: biographies of innovation in Britain, Ireland and Scandinavia / Steven P. Ashby -- The archaeology of blacksmithing and the rise of urbanism in England and northern Europe c. 700-1100 / Patrick Ottaway -- Collaboration and expert knowledge / Steven P. Ashby and Søren M. Sindbæk -- Non-ferrous metalworking networks in Scandinavian-influenced towns of Britain and Ireland / Penelope Walton Rogers
Abstract:
Crafting Communities explores the interface between craft, communication networks, and urbanization in Viking-age Northern Europe. Viking-period towns were the hubs of cross-cultural communication of their age, and innovations in specialized 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 artifacts and production: first, the application of new analytical techniques in artifact studies (e.g. metallographic, isotopic, and biomolecular techniques) and second, the shifted in interpretative focus of medieval artifact studies 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 these 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 analyzed in relation to social network theory, social and economic history, and models of communication, setting an agenda for further research. Crafting Communities provides a landmark statement on our knowledge of Viking-Age craft and communication
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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