Maritime Societies of the Viking and Medieval World

Preface and Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Chapter 1: Maritime Societies and the Transformation of the Viking Age and the Medieval World

Chapter 2: Sails and the Cognitive Roles of Viking Age Ships

Chapter 3: Trade and Trust in the Baltic Sea Area During the Viking Age

Chapter 4: Bound for the Eastern Baltic: Trade and Centres AD 800-1200

Chapter 5: Between East and West: Economy and Society on the Island of Gotland

Chapter 6: Viking Age Bornholm: An Island on the Crossways

Chapter 7: Trading Hubs or Political Centres of Power? Maritime Focial Sites in Early Sweden

Chapter 8: Accessibility and Vulnerability: Maritime Defence and Political Allegiance on the Vikbolander Peninsula, Ostergotland, Sweden

Chapter 9: Dorestad as a Fluviatile Society

Chapter 10: Maritime Environment and Social Identities in Medieval Coastal Flanders: The Management of Water and Environment and its Consequences for the Local Community and Landscape

Chapter 11: The Maritime Cultural Landscape of Early Medieval Northumbria: Small Landing Places and the Emergence of Coastal Urbanism

Chapter 12: Post-Substantivist Production and Trade: Specialized Sites for Trade and Craft Production in Scandinavia AD c.700-1000

Chapter 13: Late Iron Age Boat Rituals and Ritual Boats in Norway

Chapter 14: Bergen AD 1020/30-1170: Between Plans and Reality

Chapter 15: Steatite Vessels and the Viking Diaspora: Migrants, Travellers and Cultural Change in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland

Chapter 16: Status and Identity in Norse Settlements: A Cast Study from Orkney

Chapter 17: The Viking Occupation of the Hebrides: Evidence from the Excavations at Bornais, South Uist

Chapter 18: Disentangling Trade: Combs int he North and Irish Seas in the Long Viking Age

Chapter 19: Dealing with Deer: Norse Responses to Scottish Island Cervids

Chapter 20: 'Warrior Graves'? The Weapon Burial Rite in Viking Age Britain and Ireland

Chapter 21: The Threatening Wave: Norse Poetry and the Scottish Islands

Chapter 22: Sea Kings, Kingdoms and the Tides of Change: Man and the Isles and Medieval European Change, AD c.1100-1265

Chapter 23: The Sea Power of the Western Isles of Scotland in the Late Medieval Period

Chapter 24: Coastal Communities and Diaspora Identities in Viking Afe Ireland

Index