ISBN:
2503531318
,
9782503531311
Language:
English
Pages:
XVI, 337 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
The medieval countryside v. 9
Series Statement:
The medieval countryside
DDC:
940.1
Keywords:
Civilization, Viking
;
Land tenure History To 1500
;
Landowners History To 1500
;
Manors History To 1500
;
Power (Social sciences) History To 1500
;
Scandinavia Rural conditions
;
Land tenure
;
Scandinavia
;
History
;
To 1500
;
Landowners
;
Scandinavia
;
History
;
To 1500
;
Manors
;
Scandinavia
;
History
;
To 1500
;
Power (Social sciences)
;
Scandinavia
;
History
;
To 1500
;
Civilization, Viking
;
Scandinavia
;
Rural conditions
;
Konferenzschrift 2008
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Konferenzschrift 2008
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Skandinavien
;
Adel
;
Ansiedlung
;
Grundeigentum
;
Geschichte 700-1400
Abstract:
This volume aims to define the changing nature of lordship in Viking and early medieval Scandinavia. Advances in settlement archaeology and cultural geography have revealed new aspects of social power in Viking Age and early medieval Scandinavia. New sources and approaches allow us to question the traditional view that Scandinavian aristocrats developed from Viking raiders into Christian landlords. Seventeen thematic chapters by leading scholars survey and assess the state of research and provide a new baseline for interdisciplinary discussions. How were social ties structured? How did lordship and dependency materialize in modes of agriculture, settlement, landscape, and monuments? The book traces the power of tributary relations, forged through personal ties, gifts, duties, and feasting in great halls, and their gradual transformation into the feudal bonds of levies and land-rent
Abstract:
This volume aims to define the changing nature of lordship in Viking and early medieval Scandinavia. Advances in settlement archaeology and cultural geography have revealed new aspects of social power in Viking Age and early medieval Scandinavia. New sources and approaches allow us to question the traditional view that Scandinavian aristocrats developed from Viking raiders into Christian landlords. Seventeen thematic chapters by leading scholars survey and assess the state of research and provide a new baseline for interdisciplinary discussions. How were social ties structured? How did lordship and dependency materialize in modes of agriculture, settlement, landscape, and monuments? The book traces the power of tributary relations, forged through personal ties, gifts, duties, and feasting in great halls, and their gradual transformation into the feudal bonds of levies and land-rent
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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