Settlement and lordship in Viking and early medieval Scandinavia
by Bjørn Poulsen and Søren M. Sindbæk
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This volume aims to define the changing nature of lordship in Viking and early medieval Scandinavia. Advances in settlement archaeology and cultural geography have revealed new aspects of social power in Viking Age and early medieval Scandinavia. New sources and approaches allow us to question the traditional view that Scandinavian aristocrats developed from Viking raiders into Christian landlords. Seventeen thematic chapters by leading scholars survey and assess the state of research and provide a new baseline for interdisciplinary discussions. How were social ties structured? How did lordship and dependency materialize in modes of agriculture, settlement, landscape, and monuments? The book traces the power of tributary relations, forged through personal ties, gifts, duties, and feasting in great halls, and their gradual transformation into the feudal bonds of levies and land-rent.
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Viking Civilization, Power (Social sciences), Rural conditions, History, Manors, Landowners, Land tenure, Vikings, Scandinavia, history, Scandinavia, civilization, Civilization, Land tenure, europe, Power (social sciences), Scandinavia, social conditions, Adel, Ansiedlung, GrundeigentumPlaces
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Settlement and lordship in Viking and early medieval Scandinavia
2011, Brepols
in English
2503539793 9782503539799
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Includes bibliographical references. (p. [309]-337).
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