The Viking-Age Rune-Stones : Custom and Commemoration in Early Medieval Scandinavia.

There are over 3000 runic inscriptions on stone made in Scandinavia in the late Viking Age. This book is the first attempt by a historian to study the material as a whole. The analysis reveals significant regional variations that reflect different stages in the process of conversion, and the growth...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sawyer, Birgit
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2000.
Temas:
Inscriptions, Runic.
Vikings > History.
Vikings > Social life and customs.
Inscriptions runiques.
Vikings > Histoire.
Vikings > Mœurs et coutumes.
Inscriptions, Runic
Vikings
Vikings > Social life and customs
Scandinavia > History.
Scandinavie > Histoire.
Scandinavia
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • List of Plates
  • List of Figures
  • List of Maps
  • List of Tables
  • Sources, Abbreviations, and Conventions
  • Introduction
  • SURVEY
  • 1. Rune-stones, their Distribution and Historical Background
  • 1.1. The rune-stones and their distribution
  • 1.2. Previous work
  • 1.3. Why were the rune-stones erected?
  • 1.4. Historical background
  • 2. Presentation of the Corpus and its Subgroup
  • Bases of Analyses
  • I. The Corpus
  • 2.1. Variables
  • 2.2. General features
  • 2.3. Regional groupings
  • 2.4. Chronology and dating problems.
  • II. The Relationship Subgroup and Categories of Relationship
  • 2.5. The nature of relationships between sponsors and deceased
  • 2.6. Sponsorship patterns
  • 2.7. Complex relationships
  • III. Bases of Analyses
  • 2.8. Inscriptions
  • 2.9. Relationships
  • 3. Property and Inheritance
  • I. The Inscriptions as Declarations of Inheritance
  • 3.1. The importance of individual details in interpreting runic inscriptions
  • 3.2. The sponsorship pattern as reflecting property rights
  • II. The Sponsors as Holders of Joint or Inherited Property
  • 3.3. Joint ownership
  • 3.4. Inheritance customs.
  • 3.5. Unspecified relationships
  • 3.6. Conclusion
  • 4. Inheritance: Customs and Laws
  • 4.1. Inheritance-and other devolutions of property
  • 4.2. The runic evidence
  • 4.3. Gradual and parentela principles
  • 4.4. The sponsorship patterns
  • 4.5. Why were different inheritance principles preferred?
  • 4.6. The laws
  • 4.7. Sponsorship patterns and the laws
  • 4.8. Differences within Uppland
  • 4.9. Conclusion
  • 5. Society and Status
  • 5.1. Sponsors and deceased
  • 5.2. Title-bearers
  • 5.3. Epithets
  • 5.4. Thegns and drengs
  • 5.5. Boni homines
  • 5.6. Women as landholders
  • 5.7. Travellers.
  • 5.8. Conclusion
  • 6. Conversion
  • 6.1. Transition: pagan and/or Christian?
  • 6.2. Pagan features
  • 6.3. Christian features
  • 6.4. Conclusion
  • 7. Conclusion and Future Research
  • 7.1. The rune-stone fashion
  • 7.2. Late Viking-Age society
  • 7.3. Future research
  • Excursus: The Tug-of-War over Thyre
  • Appendices
  • 1. Distribution of Rune-stones
  • 2. Categories of Sponsors and Deceased
  • 3. Frequency of Relationships
  • 4. Inheritances
  • 5. Unspecified Relationships Implying Inheritance
  • 6. Titles
  • 7. Epithets
  • 8. 'Bönder'
  • 9. Travellers
  • 10. Bridge-builders
  • CATALOGUE.
  • Explanatory Notes
  • Denmark and Bornholm
  • Further Particulars
  • Norway
  • Further Particulars
  • Sweden (excluding Uppland)
  • Further Particulars
  • Uppland
  • Further Particulars
  • References
  • Index.

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