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Everyday life in Viking-age towns : social approaches to towns in England and Ireland, c. 800-1100 / edited by D. M. Hadley and Letty ten Harkel.

Contributor(s): Hadley, D. M. (Dawn M.), 1967- | Ten Harkel, Letty
Publisher: Oxford : Oxbow Books, [2013]Description: xii, 227 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9781842175323Subject(s): City and town life -- England -- History -- To 1500 | City and town life -- Ireland -- History -- To 1500 | Sociology, Urban -- England -- History -- To 1500 | Sociology, Urban -- Ireland -- History -- To 1500 | Urban economics -- History -- To 1500 | Great Britain -- History -- To 1066 | Ireland -- History -- To 1172
Contents:
Living in Viking-age towns / David Griffiths -- Towns and identities in Viking England / Gareth Williams -- Viking Dublin: enmities, alliances and the cold gleam of silver / Emer Purcell and John Sheehan -- Constructing and experiencing urban landscapes. -- Beyond Longphuirt? Life and death in early Viking-age Ireland / Stephen H. Harrison -- From country to town: social transitions in Viking-age housing / Rebecca Boyd -- Childhood in Viking and Hiberno-Scandinavian Dublin, 800-1100 / Deirdre McAlister -- Whither the warrior in Viking-age towns? / D.M. Hadley -- Aristocrats, burghers and their markets: patterns in the foundation of Lincoln's urban churches / David Stocker -- Urban trades and activities. -- More than just meat: animals in Viking-age towns / Kristopher Poole -- No pots please, we're Vikings: pottery in the southern Danelaw, 850-1000 / Paul Blinkhorn -- Of towns and trinkets: metalworking and metal dress-accessories in Viking-age Lincoln / Letty Ten Harkel -- Making a good comb: mercantile identity in 9th- to 11th-century England / Steven P. Ashby -- Craft and handiwork: wood, antler and bone as an everyday material in Viking-age Waterford and Cork / Maurice F. Hurley.
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Includes bibliographical references.

Living in Viking-age towns / David Griffiths -- Towns and identities in Viking England / Gareth Williams -- Viking Dublin: enmities, alliances and the cold gleam of silver / Emer Purcell and John Sheehan -- Constructing and experiencing urban landscapes. -- Beyond Longphuirt? Life and death in early Viking-age Ireland / Stephen H. Harrison -- From country to town: social transitions in Viking-age housing / Rebecca Boyd -- Childhood in Viking and Hiberno-Scandinavian Dublin, 800-1100 / Deirdre McAlister -- Whither the warrior in Viking-age towns? / D.M. Hadley -- Aristocrats, burghers and their markets: patterns in the foundation of Lincoln's urban churches / David Stocker -- Urban trades and activities. -- More than just meat: animals in Viking-age towns / Kristopher Poole -- No pots please, we're Vikings: pottery in the southern Danelaw, 850-1000 / Paul Blinkhorn -- Of towns and trinkets: metalworking and metal dress-accessories in Viking-age Lincoln / Letty Ten Harkel -- Making a good comb: mercantile identity in 9th- to 11th-century England / Steven P. Ashby -- Craft and handiwork: wood, antler and bone as an everyday material in Viking-age Waterford and Cork / Maurice F. Hurley.