Sign-In
Cart
Exploring Ireland's Viking-Age Towns: Houses and Homes
Hardcover
Series: Routledge Archaeologies of the Viking World
ArchaeologyIrish HistoryScandinavian History
Currently unavailable to order
Please enter your email and a message will be sent to you when this product becomes available on our website.
ISBN13: 9780367482787
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 20 2023
Pages: 274
Language: English
Exploring Ireland's Viking-Age Towns discusses the emergence of towns, urban lifestyles, and urban identities in Ireland. This coincides with the arrival of the Vikings and the appearance of the post-and-wattle Type 1 house. These houses reflect this crucial transition to urban living with its attendant changes for individuals, households, and society.
Exploring Ireland's Viking-Age Towns uses household archaeology as a lens to explore the materiality, variability, and day-to-day experiences of living in these houses. It moves from the intimate scale of individual households to the larger scale of Ireland's earliest urban communities. For the first time, this book considers how these houses were more than just buildings: they were homes, important places where people lived, worked, and died. These new towns were busy places with a multitude of people, ideas, and things. This book uses the mass of archaeological data to undertake comparative analyses of houses and properties, artefact distribution patterns, and access analysis studies to interrogate some 500 Viking-Age urban houses. This analysis is structured in three parts: an investigation of the houses, the households, and the town. Exploring Ireland's Viking-Age Towns discusses how these new urban households managed their homes to create a sense of place and belonging in these new environments and allow themselves to develop a new, urban identity.
This book is suited to advanced students and specialists of the Viking Age in Ireland, but archaeologists and historians of the early medieval and Viking worlds will find much of interest here. It will also appeal to readers with interests in the archaeology of house and home, households, identities, and urban studies.
1 different editions
Also available
Also from
Boyd, Rebecca
Also in
Irish History
The Next One Is for You: A True Story of Guns, Country, and the Ira's Secret American Army
Watkins, Ali
Hardcover
Stakeknife's Dirty War: The Inside Story of Scappaticci, the Ira's Nutting Squad, and the British Spooks Who Ran the War
O'Rawe, Richard
Paperback
Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland
Hemming, Henry
Hardcover
Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York
Anbinder, Tyler
Hardcover
How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
Cahill, Thomas
Paperback
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Large Print Edition)
Keefe, Patrick Radden
Paperback
Making Sense of the Troubles: The Story of the Conflict in Northern Ireland
McKittrick, David
McVea, David
Hardcover
There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the Ira, and Two Minutes That Changed History
Carroll, Rory
Hardcover
Monastery and High Cross: The Forgotten Eastern Roots of Irish Christianity
Marshner, Connie
Paperback
Illustrated Letters of Jane Austen: Selected and Introduced by Penelope Hughes-Hallett
Hughes-Hallett, Penelope
Hardcover
The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge and the Phoenix Park Murders That Stunned Victorian England
Kavanagh, Julie
Paperback
History of Ireland: An Enthralling Overview of Major Events and Figures in Irish History
Wellman, Billy
Hardcover
The Great Book of Ireland: Interesting Stories, Irish History & Random Facts About Ireland
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
In Search of Ancient Ireland: The Origins of the Irish from Neolithic Times to the Coming of the English
Eaton, Leo
McCaffrey, Carmel
Paperback
The Guises of the Morrigan: The Celtic Irish Goddess of Battle & Sovereignty: Her Myths, Powers and Mysteries
Rankine, David
D'Este, Sorita
Paperback
Voyage of Mercy: The USS Jamestown, the Irish Famine, and the Remarkable Story of America's First Humanitarian Mission
Puleo, Stephen
Paperback
All Standing: The Remarkable Story of the Jeanie Johnston, the Legendary Irish Famine Ship
Miles, Kathryn
Paperback
History of Ireland: A Captivating Guide to Irish Courage and the Story of a Nation's Rise from Hard Times to New Hopes
History, Captivating
Hardcover
The Padre: The True Story of the Irish Priest Who Armed the IRA with Gaddafi's Money
O'Leary, Jennifer
Paperback
Good Trouble: The Selma, Alabama and Derry, Northern Ireland Connection 1963-1972
Issac Jones, Forest
Paperback
The Removal of Irish Paupers from Britain: 1819 to the Early Twentieth Century
Macraild, Donald
Darwen, Lewis
Hardcover
The Troubles: Ireland's Ordeal and the Search for Peace: Ireland's Ordeal and the Search for Peace
Coogan, Tim Pat
Paperback
Becoming Irish American: The Making and Remaking of a People from Roanoke to JFK
Meagher, Timothy J.
Hardcover
The Irish Folk and Fairy Tales Collection: 5-Book Paperback Boxed Set
Curtin, Jeremiah
Yeats, W. B.
Wilde, Jane
Paperback
True Irish Ghost Stories: A Collection of First-Hand Tales of the Paranormal
Seymour, St John D.
Neligan, Harry L.
Paperback
Lincoln and the Irish: The Untold Story of How the Irish Helped Abraham Lincoln Save the Union
O'Dowd, Niall
Paperback
The Everything Irish History & Heritage Book: From Brian Boru and St. Patrick to Sinn Fein and the Troubles, All You Need to Know about the Emerald Is
Blackwell, Amy Hackney
Hackney, Ryan
Paperback
The Churchwardens' Accounts of St. Botolph Without Aldersgate, London, 1466-1500
Gibbs, Gary
Hitchman, Valerie A.
Hardcover
Becoming Irish American: The Making and Remaking of a People from Roanoke to JFK
Meagher, Timothy J.
Paperback
Troubled Geographies: A Spatial History of Religion and Society in Ireland
Gregory, Ian N.
Cunningham, Niall A.
Ell, Paul S.
Paperback
The Great Famine: A Captivating Guide to the History of the Great Hunger in Ireland from 1845 to 1849 and How the Irish Potato Famine Was Solved
History, Captivating
Hardcover
Mysteries of the Round Towers: The Subtle Energies of the Stone Structures of Ireland
Freeland, Christopher
Paperback
The Irish in the Resistance: The Untold Stories of the Ordinary Heroes Who Resisted Hitler
Morgan, John
Finn, Clodagh
Hardcover
Making Ireland Irish: Tourism and National Identity Since the Irish Civil War
Zuelow, Eric G. E.
Hardcover
Tuatha Dé Danann: Guardians of the Emerald Isle: Unearthing Ireland's Mythologies, Folklore & Magic
Campbell, Gavin
Paperback
The Disparity of Sacrifice: Irish Recruitment to the British Armed Forces, 1914-1918
Butler, William
Wheatley, Michael
Bowman, Timothy
Paperback
Nothing But an Unfinished Song: Bobby Sands, the Irish Hunger Striker Who Ignited a Generation
O'Hearn, Denis
Paperback
The Great Book of Ireland: Interesting Stories, Irish History & Random Facts About Ireland
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Great Shame: And the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World
Keneally, Thomas
Paperback
Lost Gaels: Remembering the Members of the Gaa Killed in the Conflict in Ireland
Thompson, Peadar
Hardcover
101 Things You Didn't Know about Irish History: The People, Places, Culture, and Tradition of the Emerald Isle
Hackney, Ryan
Blackwell, Amy Hackney
Kimmer, Garland
Paperback
A History of Ireland in 100 Episodes: Ancient, Medieval and Modern Ireland
Bardon, Jonathan
Hardcover
A Hillfort Through Time: Excavations at Rathgall, Co Wicklow
Becker, Katharina
Raftery, Barry
Hardcover
Plantagenets: A Captivating Guide to the Plantagenet Dynasty and the Life of Edward I
History, Captivating
Hardcover
On Bloody Sunday: A New History of the Day and Its Aftermath by Those Who Were There
Campbell, Julieann
Paperback