Leather and Fur: Aspects of Early Medieval Trade and Technology

Edited by Esther Cameron

ISBN: 1-873132-51-4 • 1998 • $30 • Paper

Leather and Fur offers fresh insight into aspects of early medieval technology, and of social economy, which affected the urban and rural medieval environment. Important changes, partly brought about by new patterns of trade and by the rise of urbanism, are reflected in Europe in the supply and the use of leather and fur. Anglo-Saxon leather-working traditions are shown to undergo transition. Cultural attitudes to the wearing of furs are seen to change. The impact of hunting on the fauna of Scandinavia, Northern Europe and Western Asia is highlighted and the enterprise that drove it forward disclosed. For those interested in artifacts, economics, industry and the environment of early medieval Europe, this book has something new to offer.