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Silver, Butter, Cloth: Monetary and Social Economies in the Viking Age (Medieval History and Archaeology) by Jane Kershaw & Gareth Williams & Søren Sindbæk & James Graham-Campbell is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Silver, Butter, Cloth: Monetary and Social Economies in the Viking Age (Medieval History and Archaeology) about?

Silver, Butter, Cloth advances current debates about the nature and complexity of Viking economic systems. It explores how silver and other commodities were used in monetary and social economies across the Scandinavian world of the Viking Age (c. 800-1100 AD) before and alongside the wide scale introduction of coinage. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach that unites archaeological, numismatic, and metallurgical analyses, Kershaw and Williams examine the uses and sources of silver in both monetary and social transactions, addressing topics such as silver fragmentation, hoarding, and coin production and re-use. Uniquely, it also goes beyond silver, giving the first detailed consideration of the monetary role of butter, cloth, and gold in the Viking economy. Indeed, it is instrumental in developing methodologies to identify such commodity monies in the archaeological record. The use of silver and other commodities within Viking economies is a dynamic field of study, fuelled by important recent discoveries across the Viking world. The 14 contributions to this book, by a truly international group of scholars, draw on newly available archaeological data from eastern Europe, Scandinavia,

Author

Jane Kershaw & Gareth Williams & Søren Sindbæk & James Graham-Campbell

Publisher

Oxford University Press Academic UK

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780192563040

Subjects

Science, History, Art