Week 14: Crafts and trade
Crafts
Graham-Campbell and Valor
208-234;
Carver and Klapste
315-327
see an example of
bog iron
, a picture of a compact
bloom
, and read a brief introduction to Viking-age
iron-working
(with a reconstruction of a
smelting furnace
)
see an example of a blade made of
Damascus (Wootz) steel
("
Charlemagne's Saber
" in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna)
Trade
Graham-Campbell and Valor
289-312;
Carver and Klapste
340-369