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Viking-Age Trade - Silver, Slaves and Gotland (Hardcover)
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Viking-Age Trade - Silver, Slaves and Gotland (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Archaeologies of the Viking World
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That there was an influx of silver dirhams from the Muslim world
into eastern and northern Europe in the ninth and tenth centuries
is well known, as is the fact that the largest concentration of
hoards is on the Baltic island of Gotland. Recent discoveries have
shown that dirhams were reaching the British Isles, too. What
brought the dirhams to northern Europe in such large numbers? The
fur trade has been proposed as one driver for transactions, but the
slave trade offers another - complementary - explanation. This
volume does not offer a comprehensive delineation of the hoard
finds, or a full answer to the question of what brought the silver
north. But it highlights the trade in slaves as driving exchanges
on a trans-continental scale. By their very nature, the nexuses
were complex, mutable and unclear even to contemporaries, and they
have eluded modern scholarship. Contributions to this volume shed
light on processes and key places: the mints of Central Asia; the
chronology of the inflows of dirhams to Rus and northern Europe;
the reasons why silver was deposited in the ground and why so much
ended up on Gotland; the functioning of networks - perhaps
comparable to the twenty-first-century drug trade; slave-trading in
the British Isles; and the stimulus and additional networks that
the Vikings brought into play. This combination of general surveys,
presentations of fresh evidence and regional case studies sets
Gotland and the early medieval slave trade in a firmer framework
than has been available before.
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