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Friendship and Social Networks in Scandinavia C.1000-1800 (Microfilm)
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Friendship and Social Networks in Scandinavia C.1000-1800 (Microfilm)
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Friendship, patron-client relationships, and social networks played
a fundamental role in Scandinavian society from the Viking Age
through to the Industrial Era. Personal ties were essential to
Viking chieftains for building their power base, and such ties were
equally crucial for early modern merchants, who used their personal
bonds to create trade networks. Furthermore, social networks
connected medieval men and women to the saints and to God. The
articles in this book emphasize the strong correlation between
political developments such as the emergence of the state and the
evolution of friendships and social networks. They also highlight
radical changes in the importance and contexts of friendship that
occurred between the Viking Age and the late eighteenth century.
During this period, friendships became far more than
community-based social relationships, but rather tools for the
elite in social positioning and wealth acquisition. This volume
highlights the major significance of friendships and patron-client
relationships to political and cultural life in medieval, early
modern, and modern society. It covers social networks in Iceland,
Norway, Denmark, and Sweden, each of which are characterized by
different societal features, ranging from the free-state republic
of early medieval Iceland to the early modern kingdom of Denmark.
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