The Valkyries' loom : the archaeology of cloth production and female power in the North Atlantic

Title
  1. The Valkyries' loom : the archaeology of cloth production and female power in the North Atlantic / Michèle Hayeur Smith.
Published by
  1. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2020]
Author
  1. Hayeur Smith, Michèle

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Description
  1. xv, 217 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Summary
  1. "Michèle Hayeur Smith uses Viking textiles as evidence for the little-known work of women in the Norse colonies that expanded from Scandinavia across the North Atlantic in the 9th century AD"--
Subject
  1. Textile fabrics, Viking > Scandinavia > History
  2. Women weavers > Scandinavia > History
  3. Textile fabrics > Scandinavia > History
  4. Vikings > Clothing > Scandinavia
  5. Women, Viking > History
  6. Textile fabrics > North Atlantic Region > History
  7. Textile fabrics
  8. Textile fabrics, Viking
  9. Women, Viking
  10. Women weavers
  11. North Atlantic Region
  12. Scandinavia
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Contents
  1. "Cold are the Counsels of Women": Bloodied Warps and Gilded Wefts -- the Engendered Economy of Cloth in the North Atlantic -- Weaving in the Viking Age: Iceland and the North Atlantic Expansion -- Textiles, Weaving, and Currency in Iceland during the Middle Ages -- Textiles in Greenland During the Medieval Period -- Cloth, Currency, Climate Change and Subsistence in Greenland -- Textiles and Trade in the North Atlantic during the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period -- The Danish Trade Monopoly in the North Atlantic and the Transformation of Women's Roles in Textile Production
Call number
  1. JFE 21-1753
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author
  1. Hayeur Smith, Michèle, author.
Title
  1. The Valkyries' loom : the archaeology of cloth production and female power in the North Atlantic / Michèle Hayeur Smith.
Publisher
  1. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2020]
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other form:
  1. Online version: Hayeur Smith, Michèle, The valkyries' loom Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2020. 9780813057637 (DLC) 2020017607
LCCN
  1. 2020017606
Other standard identifier
  1. 40030212529
ISBN
  1. 9780813066622 hardcover
  2. 081306662X hardcover
Research call number
  1. JFE 21-1753
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