Publication

2011 - Brepols, Turnhout, Belgium, Belgium

Language

English

Word Count

84,250 words, Guess

Page Count

337 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-102503539793
  • ISBN-102503531318
  • ISBN-139782503539799
  • ISBN-139782503531311
  • Library of Congress Control Number2012401235
and 4 more
  • OCLC Control Number719415534
  • Better World Books9782503531311
  • Better World Books9782503539799
  • Open LibraryOL30439108M

Classifications

  • LCCDL65 .S47 2011
  • LCCHD1331
  • LCCDL65.S47 2011
and 1 more
  • LCCHD1511.S34 S48 2011

Description

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.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • The medieval countryside -- v. 9
  • Medieval countryside -- v. 9.

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