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This book describes life in the tents and towns that the Viking Great Army inhabited: the treasure, tools, and weapons found in the camps and what they reveal about how the groups that made up the Army lived and the activities that took place, including the processing and trading of loot, the minting of coins, and the manufacture of jewellery.

The two volumes of the Archaeology of Medieval Europe comprise the first book ever to give a complete account of medieval archaeology in Europe. Archaeologists from universities in fifteen countries have collaborated to produce these two volumes of sixteen chapters each. Born out of a request for more European focused texts instead of purely nationally focused books at a conference in Seville in 1999, these books are sure to be key texts in the growing academic area of medieval European archaeology. This ground-breaking double volume set examines medieval archaeology across Europe, enabling readers to track the development of different cultures and regional characteristics. In addition to looking at contexts and developments in medieval Europe, this complete work also gives academics the opportunity to study the differences and why they exist - such as cooking methods across the continent - stoves were used in Western Europe while ovens were the method favoured by Eastern Europe and Central Europe.