The Valkyries' loom : the archaeology of cloth production and female power in the North Atlantic / Michèle Hayeur Smith.
- 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
- North Atlantic Region
- Scandinavia
- Textile fabrics > North Atlantic Region > History
- Textile fabrics > Scandinavia > History
- Textile fabrics, Viking > Scandinavia > History
- Textile fabrics, Viking
- Textile fabrics
- Vikings > Clothing > Scandinavia
- Women weavers > Scandinavia > History
- Women weavers
- Women, Viking > History
- Women, Viking
- 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
- DL33.T48
- Owning institution
- Columbia University Libraries
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.