The growth of medieval cities in Northern Europe placed new demands on food supply, and
led to the import of fish from increasingly distant fishing grounds. Quantitative analysis of cod …

The Hedmark tradition has now been set in a broad context. In the following chapter, the
results will be discussed comparatively, in order to consider the society that was involved in …

Viking-Age trade, network theory, silver economies, kingdom formation, and the
Scandinavian raiding and settlement of Ireland and Britain are all popular subjects …

The total number of coins found in viking territory adds up to more than 800,000 coins with
an emphasis on Russia, Poland, the islands in the baltic Sea, and the coastal areas of …

Introduction as eu rope descended into war in 1940, wondrous things began to emerge from
beneath St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. The decision to lower the floor of the crypt to …

Bringing together essays from experts in a variety of disciplines, this collection explores two
of the most important facets of life within the medieval Europe: money and the church. By …

The question of the co-location of different kinds of assembly, such as Old Norse things,
churches, games and markets, is a familiar debate in archaeology and history. A close …

Kunskapen om myntanvändningen under medeltiden baseras huvudsakligen på myntfynd
från kyrkor och depåer. Om, hur och i vilken utsträckning mynt kom till användning i städerna …

The title of this chapter could refer to several di ferent things: for example, the use of
economic theory in archaeological research or the di ferent grounds and sources for …

Money provides a unique and illuminating perspective on the Middle Ages. In much of
medieval Europe the central meaning of money was a prescribed unit of precious metal but …