ISBN:
9781003039006
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 273 Seiten)
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Illustrationen, Karten, Diagramme
Series Statement:
Routledge archaeologies of the Viking world
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Boyd, Rebecca Exploring Ireland's Viking-Age towns
DDC:
392.3/609417
Keywords:
Dwellings History To 1500
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Cities and towns, Viking
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Cities and towns, Medieval
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Viking antiquities
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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Civilization, Viking
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Ireland Antiquities
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Ireland Civilization To 1172
Abstract:
"Exploring Ireland's Viking-Age Towns explores the emergence of towns, urban lifestyles and urban identities in Ireland coinciding with the arrival of the Vikings and the appearance of the post-and-wattle Type 1 house. These houses reflect this crucial transition to urban living with its attendant changes for individuals, households, and society. Exploring Ireland's Viking-Age Towns uses household archaeology as a lens to explore the materiality, variability and day-to-day experiences of living in these houses. It moves from the intimate scale of individual households to the larger scale of Ireland's earliest urban communities. For the first time, this book considers how these houses were more than just buildings: they were homes, important places where people lived, worked and died. These new towns were busy places, with a multitude of people, ideas and things. This book uses the mass of archaeological data to undertake comparative analyses of houses and properties, artefact distribution patterns and access analysis studies to interrogate some 500 Viking-Age urban houses. This analysis is structured in three parts, an investigation of the houses, the households and the town. Exploring Ireland's Viking-Age Towns discusses how these new urban households managed their homes to create a sense of place and belonging in these new environments and allow themselves to develop a new, urban identity. This book is suited to advanced students and specialists of the Viking Age in Ireland but archaeologists and historians of the early medieval and Viking worlds will find much of interest here. It will also appeal to readers with interests in the archaeology of house and home, households, identities and urban studies"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : an archaeology of houses, of towns and of households -- Ireland's 9th century Viking-Age settlements -- Ireland's 10th to 12th century Viking-Age towns -- Exploring the houses -- Artefact distribution studies : visible and invisible work practices -- Access analysis : moving around the house -- Exploring the properties -- Urban worlds and urban lives -- Ireland's Viking-Age towns : where next?
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.4324/9781003039006
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003039006
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