Maritime Societies of the Viking and Medieval World

James H. Barrett, Sarah Jane Gibbon

• Preface and AcknowledgementsList of ContributorsChapter 1: Maritime Societies and the Transformation of the Viking Age and the Medieval WorldChapter 2: Sails and the Cognitive Roles of Viking Age ShipsChapter 3: Trade and Trust in the Baltic Sea Area During the Viking AgeChapter 4: Bound for the Eastern Baltic: Trade and Centres AD 800-1200Chapter 5: Between East and West: Economy and Society on the Island of GotlandChapter 6: Viking Age Bornholm: An Island on the CrosswaysChapter 7: Trading Hubs or Political Centres of Power? Maritime Focial Sites in Early SwedenChapter 8: Accessibility and Vulnerability: Maritime Defence and Political Allegiance on the Vikbolander Peninsula, Ostergotland, SwedenChapter 9: Dorestad as a Fluviatile SocietyChapter 10: Maritime Environment and Social Identities in Medieval Coastal Flanders: The Management of Water and Environment and its Consequences for the Local Community and LandscapeChapter 11: The Maritime Cultural Landscape of Early Medieval Northumbria: Small Landing Places and the Emergence of Coastal UrbanismChapter 12: Post-Substantivist Production and Trade: Specialized Sites for Trade and Craft Production in Scandinavia AD c.700-1000Chapter 13: Late Iron Age Boat Rituals and Ritual Boats in NorwayChapter 14: Bergen AD 1020/30-1170: Between Plans and RealityChapter 15: Steatite Vessels and the Viking Diaspora: Migrants, Travellers and Cultural Change in Early Medieval Britain and IrelandChapter 16: Status and Identity in Norse Settlements: A Cast Study from OrkneyChapter 17: The Viking Occupation of the Hebrides: Evidence from the Excavations at Bornais, South UistChapter 18: Disentangling Trade: Combs int he North and Irish Seas in the Long Viking AgeChapter 19: Dealing with Deer: Norse Responses to Scottish Island CervidsChapter 20: 'Warrior Graves'? The Weapon Burial Rite in Viking Age Britain and IrelandChapter 21: The Threatening Wave: Norse Poetry and the Scottish IslandsChapter 22: Sea Kings, Kingdoms and the Tides of Change: Man and the Isles and Medieval European Change, AD c.1100-1265Chapter 23: The Sea Power of the Western Isles of Scotland in the Late Medieval PeriodChapter 24: Coastal Communities and Diaspora Identities in Viking Afe IrelandIndex

"The volume is well-presented and sufficiently illustrated with some full color images. The many maps and tables are clear to use and internally consistent. With good production values, the volume is well edited and includes several go-to papers for the subject, mostly for the serious student of the subject and for scholars with university classes in mind. This fine volume is indeed a welcome addition to the scholarship of this exciting era."- Colleen Batey, University of Glasgow, Scotland in The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 2016