Guests in the House (The Northern World)
Subtitle: Cultural transmission between Slavs and Scandinavians 900 to 1300 A.D.
Contributors: Alan Crozier (Translator)
Series: The Northern World, 33
Publisher: Brill
Published: August 31, 2007
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 558
ISBN-13: 9789004161894
Subjects: World history: c 500 to C 1500; History - General History; History: World; Europe; History; Medieval; Civilization; Slavic countries; Slavic influences; Sweden; Sweden influences
Description: xxv, 557 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Table of contents: title: Preface and Acknowledgements … xi; title: List of Illustrations … xv; title: ◦; title: I. THE POWER OF THE PAST … 1; title: ◦; title: Introduction … 3; title: ◦; title: Perspective and method—the itinerary of an archaeologist … 8; title: ▫  For a self-critical contextual archaeology … 10; title: ◦; title: The hidden ties … 17; title: ▫  The Slavs … 18; title: ▫  Alliances and wars in the south … 22; title: ▫  The outlook on the Slavs in the Ostsiedlung … 29; title: ▫  From cultural integration to conflicts of interest in the east … 34; title: ▫  A people with smokehouses and kvass … 39; title: ◦; title: From ‘subhumans’ to a part of Scandinavia's history … 42; title: ▫  Ur-Slavs and the Pan-Slavic aspiration for a Slavic identity … 43; title: ▫  To arms! Slavic archaeology in hot and cold wars … 48; title: ▫  “The poor Slavic culture...”. The view of the Slavs in Scandinavian archaeological and historical research … 61; title: ◦; title: Conclusions … 73; title: ◦; title: II. THE ENCOUNTER … 77; title: ◦; title: Cultural identity and material culture … 78; title: ▫  Ethnic categorization in the Middle Ages … 78; title: ▫  Race, tribe, and ethnic identity … 86; title: ▫  From essentialism to subjectivism—a historical reorientation … 91; title: ▫  Cultural and ethnic identity—anthropological renewal … 97; title: ▫  Four questions for archaeologists … 102; title: ▫  Conspicuous signals and low-key communication … 120; title: ◦; title: Cultural transfer … 128; title: ▫  Style and cultural transfer … 128; title: ▫  Pottery and cultural identity … 139; title: ◦; title: Conclusions … 151; title: ◦; title: III. PREPARING THE GIFT … 155; title: ◦; title: The Ideological Potter's Wheel Models to Explain Changes to Early and Middle Slavic Pottery … 156; title: ▫  From the Danube to the Baltic … 159; title: ▫  From the Black Sea to Ladoga … 174; title: ▫  Pottery, change, and ideology … 187; title: ◦; title: Late Slavic Pottery in the Homelands … 198; title: ▫  The tribes in the west … 201; title: ▫  Pomerania and the Great Poland of the Piasts … 223; title: ▫  Rus' … 245; title: ◦; title: Conclusions … 258; title: ◦; title: IV. SCANDINAVIAN RECEPTION … 261; title: ◦; title: Baltic Ware—a Definition … 264; title: ◦; title: Eastern Denmark … 279; title: ▫  Lund … 279; title: ▫  Lund between Slavic and Scandinavian ceramic traditions … 284; title: ▫  Conclusion … 305; title: ▫  Rural Skåne … 307; title: ▫  Rural Skåne between Slavic and Scandinavian ceramic traditions … 308; title: ▫  The countryside and Lund … 319; title: ▫  Conclusion … 322; title: ▫  Rural Halland … 323; title: ▫  Rural Halland between Slavic and Scandinavian ceramic traditions … 324; title: ▫  Conclusion … 329; title: ▫  Rural Blekinge … 330; title: ▫  Rural Blekinge between Slavic and Scandinavian ceramic traditions … 330; title: ▫  Conclusion … 333; title: ◦; title: Gotland … 334; title: ▫  Visby … 334; title: ▫  Visby between Slavic and Scandinavian ceramic traditions … 337; title: ▫  Conclusion … 344; title: ▫  Rural Gotland … 344; title: ▫  Rural Gotland between Slavic and Scandinavian ceramic traditions … 345; title: ▫  Conclusion … 353; title: ◦; title: Götaland … 353; title: ▫  Småland and Öland … 353; title: ▫  Köpingsvik and Kalmar … 354; title: ▫  Rural Småland and Öland … 358; title: ▫  Baltic ware from Berga and Eketorp … 358; title: ▫  Småland and Öland between Slavic and Scandinavian ceramic traditions … 361; title: ▫  Conclusion … 363; title: ▫  Västergötland … 363; title: ▫  Skara … 363; title: ▫  Skara between Slavic and Scandinavian ceramic traditions … 365; title: ▫  Conclusion   ..     374; title: ▫  Lödöse … 375; title: ▫  Lödöse between Slavic and Scandinavian ceramic traditions … 376; title: ▫  Conclusion … 380; title: ▫  Rural Västergötland … 381; title: ▫  Rural Västergötland between Slavic and Scandinavian ceramic traditions … 381; title: ▫  Conclusion … 385; title: ◦; title: Östergötland … 385; title: ▫  Skänninge, Linköping and Söderköping … 385; title: ▫  Skänninge, Linköping, and Söderköping between Slavic and Scandinavian ceramic traditions … 391; title: ▫  Conclusion … 394; title: ▫  Rural Östergötland … 395; title: ▫  Rural Östergötland between Slavic and Scandinavian ceramic traditions … 395; title: ▫  Conclusion … 400; title: ◦; title: The Mälaren valley … 400; title: ▫  Between west and east—black earthenware in Birka … 402; title: ▫  Sigtuna … 406; title: ▫  Sigtuna between Slavic and Scandinavian ceramic traditions … 409; title: ▫  Conclusion … 434; title: ▫  Nyköping, Södertälje, and Strängnäs … 449; title: ▫  The towns around Mälaren between Slavic and Scandinavian ceramic traditions … 437; title: ▫  Conclusion … 448; title: ▫  Rural sites in the Mälaren valley … 449; title: ▫  The rural Mälaren valley between Slavic and Scandinavian ceramic traditions … 452; title: ▫  The countryside and towns of the Mälaren valley … 463; title: ▫  Conclusion … 467; title: ◦; title: V. SLAVIC GUESTS IN THE SCANDINAVIAN HOUSE … 469; title: ◦; title: Contacts and Baltic ware—what the potsherds tell us … 472; title: ▫  Arrival—the time before 1000 … 472; title: ▫  Consolidation—the first half of the eleventh century … 473; title: ▫  Separate paths—the second half of the eleventh century … 476; title: ▫  Maximum—the first half of the twelfth century … 480; title: ▫  The watershed—the second half of the twelfth century … 484; title: ▫  The beginning of the end—the thirteenth century … 489; title: ▫  Shades of black—regional consumption patterns … 491; title: ◦; title: People and Baltic ware—the potter's tale … 495; title: ▫  The memory of hands, the receptivity of humans … 496; title: ▫  The guests who arrived—Slavic contacts … 505; title: ▫  Slaves and guests … 505; title: ▫  Idiosyncratic assimilation … 514; title: ▫  Broken ties, firm handshakes … 516; title: ▫  Farewell and welcome … 521; title: ▫  Baltic ware and Slavic identity … 525; title: ▫  The power of the present over the past … 527; title: ◦; title: Literature … 531; title: Index … 551