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Architecture, Society, and Ritual in Viking Age Scandinavia - Doors, Dwellings, and Domestic Space (Hardcover)
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Architecture, Society, and Ritual in Viking Age Scandinavia - Doors, Dwellings, and Domestic Space (Hardcover)
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In this book, Marianne Hem Eriksen explores the social organization
of Viking Age Scandinavia through a study of domestic architecture,
and in particular, the doorway. A highly charged architectural
element, the door is not merely a practical, constructional
solution. Doors control access, generate movement, and demark
boundaries, yet also serve as potent ritual objects. For this
study, Eriksen analyzes and interprets the archaeological data of
house remains from Viking Age Norway, which are here synthesized
for the first time. Using social approaches to architecture, she
demonstrates how the domestic space of the Viking household, which
could include masters and slaves, wives and mistresses, children
and cattle, was not neutral. Quotidian and ritual interactions
with, through, and orchestrated by doorways prove to be central to
the production of a social world in the Viking Age. Eriksen's book
challenges the male-dominated focus of research on the Vikings and
expands research questions beyond topics of seaborne warriors,
trade, and craft.
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