Silver Economies, Monetisation and Society in Scandinavia, AD 800-1100 - Hardcover

James Graham-Campbell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8779345859 ISBN 13: 9788779345850

Publisher: Aarhus University Press, 2011

Synopsis

The role of silver in Viking-age society and economy has developed into a most exciting interdisciplinary topic for research. Until recently, the use of silver in Scandinavia in the period c. 800-1100 was regularly characterized as a linear process: from the use of precious metal as a medium for social display, to a 'bullion' economy in which silver assumed functions as a medium of exchange, leading eventually to the adoption of 'proper' coinage. As new evidence has proliferated from private and professional metal-detecting, from the discovery and analysis of remarkable new hoards, and from targeted investigations of both 'central-places' and more ordinary settlement sites, this model has proved itself to be inadequate - and new ones are called for. This book has brought together an international group of archaeologists, historians and numismatists to draw a balance sheet of current research on the developing silver economies in Viking-age Scandinavia.

About this title

About the Author:

James Graham-Campbell, University College London. Magdalena Valor, University of Seville.

Review:

"...the development of silver, and other, economies in Viking Age Scandinavia is a wideranging and conceptually rich subject area, with great potential for future research. This volume makes a major contribution to its study." - Jane Kershaw, University of Oxford, Early Medieval Europe 2013 21 (2)

About this edition

• Publisher: Aarhus University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 8779345859
• ISBN 13: 9788779345850
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 380
• Editor: James Graham-Campbell