Author: Robert ChambersPublisher:
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Category : Faroe Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Tracings of Iceland & the Faröe Islands
Author: Robert ChambersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Faroe Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Catalogue of the Icelandic Collection Bequeathed by Willard Fiske: To 1913
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Icelandic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Tracing Textile Production from the Viking Age to the Middle Ages
Author: Ingvild ØyePublisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1789257786
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This book concerns textile production at the fringes of north-western Europe - areas in western Norway and the North Atlantic in the expanding, dynamic and transformative period from the early Viking Age into the Middle Ages. Textiles constitute one of the basic needs in human life - to protect and keep the body warm but also to show social status and affiliations. Textiles had a wide spectrum of use areas and qualities, fine and coarse in various contexts, and in the Viking Age not least related to the production of sails - all essential for the development and character of the period. So, what were the tools and textiles like, who made them, who used them and who exposed them? By tracing textile production from the remains of tools and textiles in varied landscapes and settings - Viking Age graves and in situ workplaces from the whole period - and combining this with textual information, many layers of information are exposed about technology and qualities as well as gender, gender roles, social relations, power and networks. By combining tools, textiles and texts in various settings, this book aims to contextualize dispersed archaeological finds of tools and textiles to uncover patterns across larger areas and in a long-term perspective of half a millennium.
“The” Athenaeum
Author: House documents
Author: Literature of Travel and Exploration: G to P
Author: Jennifer SpeakePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781579584245
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts
Author: Chambers's Edinburgh Journal
Author: Denmark in English and American Literature
Author: Jens Christian BayPublisher:
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Category : Denmark
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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