The Valkyries' loom : the archaeology of cloth production and female power in the North Atlantic /
"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"--
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| Language: | English |
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
[2020]
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Table of 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
