‎Unn Pedersen, Marianne Moen, Lisbeth Skogstrand (eds)‎
‎Gendering the Nordic Past Dialogues between Perspectives‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2025 Paperback, Pages: 261 pages,Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:6 b/w, 21 col., 11 tables b/w. Language:English *new. ISBN 9782503608877.‎

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‎The idea of the Nordic nations as champions of gender equality is firmly rooted in today?s perceptions of society. But how does such a modern comprehension influence our views of history? Does our understanding of gender impact on how we see the past? And do the ways in which we gender the past have an effect on our present identities? From the Stone Age to the Early Modern period, and from warriors and queens to households and burials, this groundbreaking volume draws together research conducted as part of the project Gendering the Nordic Past, an inter-Nordic collaboration aimed at (re)evaluating and revitalizing the field of gender studies in the region. The chapters gathered in this volume, contributed by archaeologists and historians, theologians, art historians, and specialists in gender studies, aim to offer novel perspectives on the ways in which we gender the past. While many of the chapters focus explicitly on the Nordic countries, comparisons are also drawn with other regions in order to provide both internal and external views on the role of the collective past in present Nordic identities. The result, presented here, is an essential dialogue into the importance of gender in creating and maintaining past identities, as well as a new understanding of how the identities that we construct for the past can relate to heritage narratives. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Gendering the Nordic Past: Dialogues Between Perspectives Unn Pedersen, Marianne Moen, and Lisbeth Skogstrand The Nordic Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Early Iron Age 2. Settlement, Technology and Transmission of Knowledge: Early Mesolithic Family Structure as a Key to Understand Long-term Social Stability and Non-change Ingrid Fuglestvedt 3. Why Patrilocal Female Exogamy? A Critical View on Kinship in The Nordic Bronze Age Lene Melheim 4. A Network of Girls: Marriage Alliances in Roman Period Scandinavia Lisbeth Skogstrand 5. ?Body, Doorway that You Are?: Gendering in Fourth to Sixth Century AD Voss and Hardanger Elisabeth Aslesen 6. Golden Revelations: Revisiting the Richly Furnished Graves of the Migration Period in Southern Norway Marie Dave Amundsen 7. Women, Warriors and the Negotiation of Identity in Migration Period Scandinavia Ingunn R stad The Viking Age 8. Another Story? Returning to the Oseberg Ship Burial Unn Pedersen 9. A V lva or Sei ma r in Finland? Cultural Creolization as a Problem for Interpretations Anna Wessman, Frog, and Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson 10. Gender and Relationality in the Viking Age: Mortuary Archaeology Beyond Grave-goods Sarah Croix 11. The Spaces in Between: Exploring the Interpretative Potential of Ungendered Graves Marianne Moen The Nordic Middle Ages and Beyond 12. Textiles and Texts: Gendering the Medieval Church Steinunn Kristj nsd ttir 13. Gender and Ornamental Practices, c. 1000?1350: Re-assessing the Interpretative History Ragnhild M. B 14. Gender and Work under the Arctic Circle: Household Perspective on Early Modern Economies in the North Hilde Sandvik 15. Dissolving Dichotomies: On the Necessity of Integrating Saami, Nordic, and Feminist Gender Archaeology Marte Spangen The Nordic Past in Perspective 16. Gender in Migration Narratives of Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe Martin Furholt and Stefan Burmeister 17. A Case Study of the Turin Satirical-Erotic Papyri: Historical Bodies, Mundane Resistance and Alternative Worlds Reinert Skumsnes 18. Changing Gender Ideologies in Early Iron Age Athens S ren Handberg‎