Book
The dynamics of medieval Iceland: political economy and literature
University of Iowa Press • Iowa City • Published In 1992 • Pages:
By: Durrenberger, E. Paul.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of the social, economic, and political changes that took place in Medieval Iceland over a period of approximately four hundred years --ninth through thirteen centuries -- from the first Norse settlement around 874 A.D. to Iceland's incorporation into the kingdom of Norway in 1264. This period is characterized by the fact that while the social order was stratified, there was no state organization. Much of the ethnographic data gathered for this period comes from the analysis of a number of Icelandic sagas written primarily in the thirteen century A.D., a period of great internal strife. These sagas attempt to interpret what life was like in the tenth and eleventh centuries.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Real property
- Production and supply
- External trade
- Labor supply and employment
- Verbal arts
- Status, role, and prestige
- Accumulation of wealth
- Social relationships and groups
- Districts
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Early Icelanders
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2004
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Scandinavia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2002
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ninth-thirteen centuries AD
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- general Iceland
- NotesAdditional notes
- by E. Paul Durrenberger
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-117) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 92012335
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Icelanders