The Valkyries' loom : the archaeology of cloth production and female power in the North Atlantic / Michèle Hayeur Smith.

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. North Atlantic Region
  2. Scandinavia
  3. Textile fabrics > North Atlantic Region > History
  4. Textile fabrics > Scandinavia > History
  5. Textile fabrics, Viking > Scandinavia > History
  6. Textile fabrics, Viking
  7. Textile fabrics
  8. Vikings > Clothing > Scandinavia
  9. Women weavers > Scandinavia > History
  10. Women weavers
  11. Women, Viking > History
  12. Women, Viking
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. DL33.T48
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.