The Valkyries' loom : the archaeology of cloth production and female power in the North Atlantic
- Title
- The Valkyries' loom : the archaeology of cloth production and female power in the North Atlantic / Michèle Hayeur Smith.
- Published by
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2020]
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xv, 217 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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
- Textile fabrics, Viking > Scandinavia > History
- Women weavers > Scandinavia > History
- Textile fabrics > Scandinavia > History
- Vikings > Clothing > Scandinavia
- Women, Viking > History
- Textile fabrics > North Atlantic Region > History
- Textile fabrics
- Textile fabrics, Viking
- Women, Viking
- Women weavers
- North Atlantic Region
- Scandinavia
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Contents
- "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
- JFE 21-1753
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Author
- Hayeur Smith, Michèle, author.
- Title
- The Valkyries' loom : the archaeology of cloth production and female power in the North Atlantic / Michèle Hayeur Smith.
- Publisher
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2020]
- Type of content
- text
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other form:
- Online version: Hayeur Smith, Michèle, The valkyries' loom Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2020. 9780813057637 (DLC) 2020017607
- LCCN
- 2020017606
- Other standard identifier
- 40030212529
- ISBN
- 9780813066622 hardcover
- 081306662X hardcover
- Research call number
- JFE 21-1753