The Ecclesiastical Economy. The Power of the Church in Post-Reformation Iceland

Author(s): Gavin M. Lucas

Year: 2023

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Governance and Globalization in the North Atlantic", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

This paper explores the way the Bishop's seat of Skálholt in south Iceland managed its diocese during the 17th and 18th centuries and especially, its role in mediating the global and the local through its administrative structure. Drawing on both the rich archaeological research at the site and a wealth of documentary sources, a key focus will be on the role of foreign trade and the role of imported goods and the networks along which they flowed.

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The Ecclesiastical Economy. The Power of the Church in Post-Reformation Iceland. Gavin M. Lucas. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Lisbon, Portugal. 2023 ( tDAR id: 476050)

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Keywords

General
Church Economy Iceland

Geographic Keywords
Iceland

Spatial Coverage

min long: -24.538; min lat: 63.391 ; max long: -13.499; max lat: 66.536 ;

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