LEADER 03253nam 2200421 450 001 9910734345003321 005 20230225201653.0 024 7 $a10.23865/noasp.126 035 $a(CKB)4920000001372490 035 $a(NjHacI)994920000001372490 035 $a(EXLCZ)994920000001372490 100 $a20230225d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLanguage of Jewellery $eDress-accessories and Negotiations of Identity in Scandinavia, c. AD 400-650/70 /$fIngunn Marit Røstad 210 1$aOslo :$cCappelen Damm Akademisk/NOASP (Nordic Open Access Scholarly Publishing),$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (394 pages) $cillustrations (some color), maps, plans 225 1 $aNorske Oldfunn 311 $a82-02-71620-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 330 $aIn the 5th-7th centuries AD, members of the female population in Scandinavia frequently wore a costume adorned with conspicuous items of jewellery. Many of the items, such as brooches and clasps, were dress-accessories used to fasten these garments. Some of them, moreover, were popular over an extended area of Europe, and have been found in Scandinavia, Anglo-Saxon England and on the Continent alike. This book provides an analysis of more than 1,800 such items of jewellery from Scandinavia. It explores the contextual and geographical distribution through time of four major types of dress-accessory: cruciform brooches, relief brooches, wrist-clasps and conical brooches. Detailed analysis reveals distribution patterns and variations that provide new insights into the multifaceted reality of the Scandinavian pre-Viking period. The author argues that in a time characterized by social stress and upheaval, women played an important role in the negotiation of identities through the use of costume adorned with dress-accessories. These negotiations were part of a continuous, complex and ever-changing discourse of identity, in which different dimensions of multiple identities were generated, articulated and transformed. In some instances, a common identity is manifest even at a date which precedes by several centuries the unification of much the same areas into single medieval kingdoms, while social and political conditions could equally trigger either the material expression or the disappearance of shared identities at local, regional, and even pan-European levels. This book also offers a more nuanced view of ethnic groupings during the 5th-7th centuries by examining the inter-connectedness of the flexible and mobile 'warrior nations' of the Migration Period, and the territorially rooted, often historically documented 'peoples', who are reflected in the practices of female dress. 410 0$aNorske Oldfunn. 517 $aLanguage of Jewellery 606 $aDress accessories 606 $aWomen's clothing 615 0$aDress accessories. 615 0$aWomen's clothing. 676 $a306.09 700 $aRøstad$b Ingunn Marit$01277635 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910734345003321 996 $aLanguage of Jewellery$93011760 997 $aUNINA