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

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Ingvild Øye

Tracing Textile Production from the Viking Age to the Middle Ages

Tools, Textiles, Texts and Contexts

Ingvild Øye

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English

Oxbow Books
01 May 2022

European history; Archaeology by period & region; Archaeological methodology & techniques

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 insights, 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 contextualises dispersed archaeological finds of tools and textiles to uncover patterns across larger areas and in a long-term perspective of half a millennium.

AUTHOR: Ingvild Øye is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural History and Religions at the University of Bergen, Norway. She graduated in medieval history, achieved her Doctor of Philosophy degree within medieval archaeology, with the thesis Textile Equipment and its Working Environment, Bryggen in Bergen c. 11501500. In 1994 she became Professor of Medieval Archaeology, a position she held until she retired in 2015.

By: Ingvild Øye
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 280mm, Width: 216mm,
ISBN: 9781789257779
ISBN 10: 1789257778
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 01 May 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. State of research 2. Perspectives and methods 3. Farming systems and textile production 4. Tracing the work processes 5. The tools in the grave – gender, social status, and agency 6. Tools and textiles 7. Nodes and networks in textile production? 8. Viking Age production sites 9 From rural to urban production – changing conditions for textile production in the Middle Ages? Epilogue Bibliography Appendices

Ingvild Øye is Professor Emeritus at the University of Bergen, Norway. Her scholarly fields cover urban and rural archaeology and history, including both textile and agricultural production from the Viking Age into the Middle Ages – often seen from a gender perspective. She is the author of Textile Equipment and its Working Environment, Bryggen in Bergen, c. 1150–1500, and has also published findings of the textile tools from the Viking Age town of Kaupang.