Architecture, Society, and Ritual in Viking Age Scandinavia: Doors, Dwellings, and Domestic Space

Review

‘It is a fabulous piece of work, lucid, well documented, imaginative and beautifully organised. It will be of interest to scholars working on other periods or in other parts of the world.' Richard Bradley, University of Reading‘Doors can be entries and exits, metaphors, symbols, and more. This fascinating work gives us Vikings as we've never seen them - their ideas on death and life, their sense of home, their bodies and behavior, it's all here. Marianne Hem Eriksen is one of the leading innovators in Viking archaeology today, and this book is the proof.' Neil Price, University of Uppsala‘… thought provoking … offers an interesting and useful strategy for investigating the domestic, ritual and everyday life of late Iron-Age/Viking-Age people … also refreshing in its near exclusion of the stereotypical Viking warrior, instead putting women, children, animals, rituals and everyday chores into the limelight.’ Elise Kleivane, Medieval Archaeology‘This is an interesting and important contribution to the literature not only on Viking-Age buildings, but also to the explicitly theorised study of everyday life in the period … The book deserves to become a point of reference and inspiration for years to come.’ Steve Ashby, Medieval Archaeology‘This monograph is a valuable contribution to the scholarship on domestic life in the Viking Age …’ Teva Vidal, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies

Book Description

This book explores households, social organization, and rituals in Viking Age Scandinavia through a study of dwellings and their doorways.