In Austrvegr : : the role of the Eastern Baltic in Viking Age communication across the Baltic Sea / / Marika Magi.
Marika Mägi’s book considers the cultural, mercantile and political interaction of the Viking Age (9th-11th century), focusing on the eastern coasts of the Baltic Sea. The majority of research on Viking activity in the East has so far concentrated on the modern-day lands of Russia, while the archaeo...
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Superior document: | Northern World : North Europe and the Baltic c. 400-1700 AD. Peoples, Economies and Cultures ; Volume 84 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Northern world.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 491 pages) :; illustrations, maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Viking age cultural contacts across the Baltic Sea : behind the interpretations
- Clan-based collectivists or hierarchical individualists? Late prehistoric societies in the Ea; stern Baltic
- Making trade : cultural landscapes and communication routes
- The historical reality : places, place names, and ethnonyms in written sources
- Networks take shape : communication through the Eastern Baltic 600-850
- West goes east : Viking age long-distance communication and the Eastern Baltic 850-ca. 1000
- Between consolidating states. The Eastern Baltic areas in the 11th and 12th centuries
- Summing up and conclusions.