Architecture, Society, and Ritual in Viking Age Scandinavia

Auteur

Marianne Hem Eriksen is Associate Professor of Archaeology at the University of Oslo. She is a research fellow (2017 2019) at the University of Cambridge. An elected member of the Young Researchers of Norway, under the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, she was awarded His Majesty the King's Gold Medal for Younger Scholars of Excellence in 2016.

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This book explores households, social organization, and rituals in Viking Age Scandinavia through a study of dwellings and their doorways.

Résumé
This book takes a fresh perspective on the Viking Age, offering a social archaeology of the Viking home. A highly charged architectural element - the door - is used as a gateway to generate new knowledge of households and society in Viking Age Scandinavia, fleshing out everyday life and domestic ritual.

Contenu

Part I. Opening Doors to the Viking Age: 1. Entry points; 2. The power of the door; Part II. Ordering Settlements and Landscapes: 3. Fleshing out the past: houses and households of the Viking Age; 4. Crossing the threshold: interior space; 5. Networked landscapes: exterior space; Part III. Ritual Objects, Ritual Spaces: 6. 'Lift me over door-hinges and lintels': doorways, bodies, and biographies; 7. Thresholds to other worlds; 8. Exits: a social archaeology of the Viking Age; Appendix.