Author: Sven Kalmring
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009298054
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
This volume offers an interdisciplinary and geographically wide-ranging approach to understanding the emergence of towns and commerce in Viking-age Scandinavia and their eventual demise by the end of the period. It tracks the diverging characteristics of urban communities against the background of traditional social structures in the Viking world.