Title Architecture, society, and ritual in Viking Age Scandinavia : doors, dwellings, and domestic space / Marianne Hem Eriksen, University of Oslo

Published Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019 ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 275 pages) : illustrations Contents Entry points -- The power of the door -- Fleshing out the past: houses and households of the Viking Age -- Crossing the threshold: interior space -- Networked landscapes: exterior space -- "Lift me over door-hinges and lintels": doorways, bodies, and biographies -- Thresholds to other worlds -- Exits: a social archaeology of the Viking Age Summary "In this book, Marianne Hem Eriksen explores the social organization of Viking Age Scandinavia through a study of domestic architecture, and in particular, the doorway. A highly charged architectural element, the door is not merely a practical, construction solution. Doors control access, generate movement, and demark boundaries, yet also serve as potent ritual objects. For this study, Eriksen analyzes and interprets the archaeological data of house remains from Viking Age Norway, which is here synthesized for the first time. Using social approaches to architecture, she demonstrates how the domestic space of the Viking household, which could include masters and slaves, wives and mistresses, children and cattle, was not neutral. Quotidian and ritual interactions with, through, and orchestrated by doorways prove to be central to the production of a social world in the Viking Age. Eriksen's book challenges the male-dominated focus of research on the Vikings and expands research questions beyond topics of seaborne warriors, trade, and craft"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Architecture, Viking -- Themes, motives Architecture and society -- Scandinavia -- History -- To 1500 Domestic space -- Scandinavia -- History -- To 1500 Doorways -- Social aspects -- Scandinavia ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Public, Commercial & Industrial. ARCHITECTURE -- Project Management. ARCHITECTURE -- Security Design. Architecture and society Domestic space Scandinavia Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781108758383 110875838X 9781108667043 110866704X

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