Identity Formation and Diversity in the Early Medieval Baltic and Beyond : Communicators and Communication (Northern World)

Callmer, Johan (EDT)/ Gustin, Ingrid (EDT)/ Roslund, Mats (EDT)

Brill（2017/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 300 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004292178
• DDC分類 947.901

Full Description

In Identity Formation and Diversity in the Early Medieval Baltic and Beyond, the Viking World in the East is made more heterogeneous. Baltic Finnic groups, Balts and Sami are integrated into the history dominated by Scandinavians and Slavs.
Interaction in the region between Eastern Middle Sweden, Finland, Estonia and North Western Russia is set against varied cultural expressions of identities. Ten scholars approach the topic from different angles, with case studies on the roots of diversity, burials with horses, Staraya Ladoga as a nodal point of long-distance routes, Rus' warrior identities, early Eastern Christianity, interaction between the Baltic Finns and the Svear, the first phases of ar-Rus dominion, the distribution of Carolingian swords, and Dirhams in the Baltic region.
Contributors are Johan Callmer, Ingrid Gustin, Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson, Valter Lang, John Howard Lind, Marika Mägi, Mats Roslund, Søren Sindbaek, Anne Stalsberg, and Tuukka Talvio.

Contents

Contents
List of Illustrations VII
List of Contributors xi
1 Identity Formation and Diversity: Introduction 1
Johan Callmer, Ingrid Gustin and Mats Roslund
2 Societies East and West of the Baltic Sea: Prehistoric Culture Contacts
Revisited 17
Marika Mägi
3 Riding to the Afterworld: Burying with Horses and Riding Equipment in
Estonia and the Baltic Rim 48
Valter Lang
4 A Site of Intersection: Staraya Ladoga, Eastern Silver, and Long-Distance
Communication Networks in Early Medieval Europe 76
Søren M. Sindbæk
5 Creating a Cultural Expression: On Rus' Identity and Material
Culture 91
Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson
6 "Varangian Christianity" and the Veneration of Anglo-Saxon and
Scandinavian Saints in Early Rus' 107
John H. Lind
7 The Rise of the Dominion of the ar-Rus in the Northern Parts of
Eastern Europe, Seventh to Ninth Centuries a.d.: A Case of Culture
Construction 136
Johan Callmer
8 Bringing "the Periphery" into Focus: Social Interaction between Baltic
Finns and the Svear in the Viking Age and Crusade Period (c.800 to
1200) 168
Mats Roslund
9 Contacts, Identity, and Hybridity: Objects from South-western
Finland in the Birka Graves 205
Ingrid Gustin
10 Swords from the Carolingian Empire to the Baltic Sea and
Beyond 259
Anne Stalsberg
11 Dirham Hoards from the Gulf of Finland Region 281
Tuukka Talvio
Index 293