Viking-age trade : silver, slaves and Gotland
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Viking-age trade : silver, slaves and Gotland
(Routledge archaeologies of the Viking world)
Routledge, 2021
- : hbk
大学図書館所蔵 全4件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
That there was an influx of silver dirhams from the Muslim world into eastern and northern Europe in the ninth and tenth centuries is well known, as is the fact that the largest concentration of hoards is on the Baltic island of Gotland. Recent discoveries have shown that dirhams were reaching the British Isles, too. What brought the dirhams to northern Europe in such large numbers? The fur trade has been proposed as one driver for transactions, but the slave trade offers another - complementary - explanation.
This volume does not offer a comprehensive delineation of the hoard finds, or a full answer to the question of what brought the silver north. But it highlights the trade in slaves as driving exchanges on a trans-continental scale. By their very nature, the nexuses were complex, mutable and unclear even to contemporaries, and they have eluded modern scholarship. Contributions to this volume shed light on processes and key places: the mints of Central Asia; the chronology of the inflows of dirhams to Rus and northern Europe; the reasons why silver was deposited in the ground and why so much ended up on Gotland; the functioning of networks - perhaps comparable to the twenty-first-century drug trade; slave-trading in the British Isles; and the stimulus and additional networks that the Vikings brought into play.
This combination of general surveys, presentations of fresh evidence and regional case studies sets Gotland and the early medieval slave trade in a firmer framework than has been available before.
目次
1. Why Gotland?
Part I: Cogs and Drivers
2. Reading between the lines: Tracking slaves and slavery in the early middle ages
3. Slavery in medieval Scandinavia: Some points of departure
4. The fur trade in the early middle ages
5. The dynamics of the drugs trade: A model for the study of the medieval trade in slaves?
Part II: Flows from Islam
6. Dirham flows into northern and eastern Europe and the rhythms of the slave trade with the Islamic world
7. Trading networks, warlords and hoarders: Islamic coin flows into Poland in the Viking Age
8. Coin circulation in early Rus and the dynamics of the druzhinas
Part III: Gotland
9. Hoards, silver, context and the Gotlandic alternative
10. Hoards and their archaeological context: Three case studies from Gotland
11. Gotland: Silver island
12. Silver hoards and society on Viking-Age Gotland: Some thoughts on the relationship between silver, long-distance trade and local communities
13. From the foreign to the familiar: The arrival and circulation of silver in Gotlandic society
14. Was there life before death? The Viking settlements on Gotland
15. Social structures and landscape: Gotland's silver hoards in the context of settlements
Part IV: Comparisons
16. Gotland viewed from the Swedish mainland
17. Silver hoarding on Bornholm and Gotland: Hoards as windows onto Viking-Age life
18. Coins as an indicator of communications between the British Isles and Scandinavia in the Viking Age
19. Viking economies and the Great Army: Interpreting the precious metal finds from Torksey, Lincolnshire
20. Viking-Age bullion from southern Scandinavia and the Baltic region in Ireland
Part V: Conclusions
21. Some reflections on Gotland: Slavery, slave-traders, and slave-takers
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