Tracing Textile Production from the Viking Age to the Middle Ages: Tools, Textiles, Texts and Contexts - Rilegato

Ye, Ingvild

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1789257778 ISBN 13: 9781789257779

Casa editrice: Oxbow Books Ltd, 2022

Riassunto

This book concerns textile production at the fringes of north-western Europe - areas in western Norway and the North Atlantic in the expanding, dynamic and transformative period from the early Viking Age into the Middle Ages. Textiles constitute one of the basic needs in human life - to protect and keep the body warm but also to show social status and affiliations. Textiles had a wide spectrum of use areas and qualities, fine and coarse in various contexts, and in the Viking Age not least related to the production of sails - all essential for the development and character of the period. So, what were the tools and textiles like, who made them, who used them and who exposed them? By tracing textile production from the remains of tools and textiles in varied landscapes and settings - Viking Age graves and in situ workplaces from the whole period - and combining this with textual information, many layers of information are exposed about technology and qualities as well as gender, gender roles, social relations, power and networks. By combining tools, textiles and texts in various settings, this book aims to contextualize dispersed archaeological finds of tools and textiles to uncover patterns across larger areas and in a long-term perspective of half a millennium.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Oxbow Books Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• ISBN 10: 1789257778
• ISBN 13: 9781789257779
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 244
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile