Identity formation and diversity in the early medieval Baltic and beyond : : communicators and communication / / edited by Johan Callmer, Ingrid Gustin, Mats Roslund.

"In Identity Formation and Diversity in the Early Medieval Baltic and Beyond, the Viking World in the East is made more heterogeneous. Baltic Finnic groups, Balts and Sami are integrated into the history dominated by Scandinavians and Slavs. Interaction in the region between Eastern Middle Swed...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:The northern world : North Europe and the Baltic, c. 400-1700 AD : peoples, economics and cultures, volume 75
TeilnehmendeR:
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Northen world ; v. 75.
Physical Description:1 online resource (310 pages) :; illustrations.
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Crossing cultural boundaries : introduction / Johan Callmer, Ingrid Gustin and Mats Roslund
  • Societies east and west of the Baltic Sea : prehistoric culture contacts revisited / Marika Magi
  • Riding to the afterworld : burying with horses and riding equipment in Estonia and the Baltic Rim / Valter Lang
  • A site of intersection : Staraya Ladoga, eastern silver, and long-distance communication networks in early medieval Europe / Soren M. Sindbaek
  • Creating a cultural expression : on Rus' identity and material culture / Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson
  • "Varangian Christianity" and the veneration of Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian saints in early Rus' / John H. Lind
  • The rise of the dominion of the ar-Rus in the northern parts of Eastern Europe, seventh to ninth centuries A.D. : a case of culture construction / Johan Callmer
  • Bringing "the periphery" into focus : social interaction between Baltic Finns and the Svear in the Viking age and Crusade period (c. 800 to 1200) / Mats Roslund
  • Contacts, identity, and hybridity : objects from western Finland in the Birka graves / Ingrid Gustin
  • Swords from the Carolingian Empire to the Baltic Sea and beyond / Anne Stalsberg
  • Dirham hoards from the Gulf of Finland region / Tuukka Talvio.