Introduction. Ideology And Power In The Viking And Middle Ages: Scandinavia, Iceland, Ireland, Orkney And The Faeroes

The nature of the feast: commensality and the politics of consumption in Viking Age and Early Medieval Northern Europe In Early Medieval Northern Europe, food was more than mere sustenance. Rather dietary choices were used to define and manipulate identity and shape power politics. Using the Norse Earldom of Orkney as a case study and commensality as an analytical framework, we explore how the archaeology of food, and in particular zooarchaeological evidence can be used alongside near contemporary historical sources to better understand the political and social role of food as well as the likely scale and impact of commensal activities on farming economies and environments in the Medieval North Atlantic. We argue that feasting and, by extension, the mechanisms by which preferentially consumed foodstuffs were grown, procured and processed, would have had a transformative impact on Norse society at diverse scales, from enabling individuals to participate in social negotiations to driving local and regional economies.

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In Pursuit of an Æsirist Ideology

Cole¹

2019

Viking and Medieval Scandinavia

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Introduction. Ideology And Power In The Viking And Middle Ages: Scandinavia, Iceland, Ireland, Orkney And The Faeroes

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The nature of the feast: commensality and the politics of consumption in Viking Age and Early Medieval Northern Europe

In Pursuit of an Æsirist Ideology

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