Jacek Gruszczy¿ski was a Research Associate at the Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford and now works as an archaeology and heritage consultant.

Marek Jankowiak is Associate Professor of Byzantine History at the University of Oxford.

Jonathan Shepard was University Lecturer in Russian History at the University of Cambridge.

1. Why Gotland?

Part I: Cogs and Drivers

2. Reading between the lines: Tracking slaves and slavery in the early middle ages

3.Slavery in medieval Scandinavia: Some points of departure

4. The fur trade in the early middle ages

5. The dynamics of the drugs trade: A model for the study of the medieval trade in slaves?

Part II: Flows from Islam

6. Dirham flows into northern and eastern Europe and the rhythms of the slave trade with the Islamic world

7. Trading networks, warlords and hoarders: Islamic coin flows into Poland in the Viking Age

8. Coin circulation in early Rus and the dynamics of the druzhinas

Part III: Gotland

9. Hoards, silver, context and the Gotlandic alternative

10. Hoards and their archaeological context: Three case studies from Gotland

11. Gotland: Silver island

12. Silver hoards and society on Viking-Age Gotland: Some thoughts on the relationship between silver, long-distance trade and local communities

13. From the foreign to the familiar: The arrival and circulation of silver in Gotlandic society

14. Was there life before death? The Viking settlements on Gotland

15. Social structures and landscape: Gotland's silver hoards in the context of settlements

Part IV: Comparisons

16. Gotland viewed from the Swedish mainland

17. Silver hoarding on Bornholm and Gotland: Hoards as windows onto Viking-Age life

18. Coins as an indicator of communications between the British Isles and Scandinavia in the Viking Age

19. Viking economies and the Great Army: Interpreting the precious metal finds from Torksey, Lincolnshire

20. Viking-Age bullion from southern Scandinavia and the Baltic region in Ireland

Part V: Conclusions

21. Some reflections on Gotland: Slavery, slave-traders, and slave-takers