The Valkyries’ Loom: The Archaeology of Cloth Production and Female Power in the North Atlantic
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Michèle Hayeur Smith
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The Valkyries’ Loom: The Archaeology of Cloth Production and Female Power in the North Atlantic
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Michèle Hayeur Smith uses Viking textiles as evidence for the little-known work of women in the Norse colonies that expanded from Scandinavia across the North Atlantic in the 9th century AD.
Michèle Hayeur Smith uses Viking textiles as evidence for the little-known work of women in the Norse colonies that expanded from Scandinavia across the North Atlantic in the 9th century AD.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 236 pages
ISBN-10: 0813080118
Item Weight: 0.7 lbs
Dimensions: 6.0 x 0.5 x 9.0 inches
“Conciselyand cohesively covers over a millennium of history and archaeology regardingtextiles and the practice of weaving in the North Atlantic. . . .One does not need to be atextile expert to use and enjoy this highly informative work. . . . An excellentresource.”—Anthropology Book Forum
“Severalkey insights are spun. . . . The reader is obliged to reconsider pastinterpretations of North Atlantic evidence in this new light.”—Antiquity
“[An]ambitious and welcome study. . . . TheValkyries’ Loom makes important contributions to our understanding of themedieval and early modern North Atlantic as well as to the ways textile studiescan enrich our knowledge of the pre-modern world.”—Medieval Review
Michèle Hayeur Smith is an archaeologist and research associate at the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University.
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