Silver, Butter, Cloth - Monetary and Social Economies in the Viking Age (Hardcover)

Silver, Butter, Cloth advances current debates about the nature and complexity of Viking economic systems. It explores how silver and other commodities were used in monetary and social economies across the Scandinavian world of the Viking Age (c. 800-1100 AD) before and alongside the wide scale introduction of coinage. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach that unites archaeological, numismatic, and metallurgical analyses, Kershaw and Williams examine the uses and sources of silver in both monetary and social transactions, addressing topics such as silver fragmentation, hoarding, and coin production and re-use. Uniquely, it also goes beyond silver, giving the first detailed consideration of the monetary role of butter, cloth, and gold in the Viking economy. Indeed, it is instrumental in developing methodologies to identify such commodity monies in the archaeological record. The use of silver and other commodities within Viking economies is a dynamic field of study, fuelled by important recent discoveries across the Viking world. The 14 contributions to this book, by a truly international group of scholars, draw on newly available archaeological data from eastern Europe, Scandinavia, the North Atlantic, and the British Isles and Ireland, to present the latest original research. Together, they deepen understanding of Viking monetary and social economies and advance new definitions of 'economy', 'currency', and 'value' in the ninth to eleventh centuries.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Medieval History and Archaeology
Release date:	December 2018
Editors:	Jane Kershaw (Leverhulme Early Career Researcher) • Gareth Williams (Curator of Early Medieval Coinage) • Soren Sindbaek (Lecturer in Archaeology) • James Graham-Campbell (Emeritus Professor of Medieval Archaeology)
Dimensions:	253 x 179 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	324
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-882798-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 500 to 1500 Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > European archaeology > Medieval European archaeology Books > History > European history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history Books > History > World history > 500 to 1500 Promotions
LSN:	0-19-882798-9
Barcode:	9780198827986

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