Contents
PART ONE – DENMARK
40 years of medieval archaeology at Aarhus University The first ten years – why and how
The future for the past
Communication, landscape and settlement in the Norse Northe Atlantic The setting of everyday life in Viking-Age Scandinavia
Medieval archaeology and the National Museum of Denmark – today
The professionalization of medieval archaeology in Denmark – from the enthusiastic amateur to a medieval archaeologist at every museum
The bare bones of medieval archaeology
PART TWO – SWEDEN, NORWAY, FINLAND AND NORTH ATLANTIC LANDS
Historical archaeology in Sweden – from the Middle Ages to Modernity Medieval archaeology in Finland – its emergence and political context Defining the medieval in Icelandic archaeology
Christianity, churches and medieval Kirkjubøur – contacts and influences in the Faroe Islands Norse Greenland – research into abandonment
PART THREE – ELSEWHERE IN EUROPE
Viking archeology in the 21st century
Castles, nobles and living conditions – sources for and interrelations between aspects of medieval daily life Conceptions of domestic space in the long term – the example of the English medieval hall
The development of Lübeck into a medieval metropolis
Archaeology and a complex historic event of the Nazi period – the Berlin sculpture find
