List of contributors Preface Chapter 1: Everyday products in the Middle Ages: Crafts, Consumption and the Individual in Northern Europe c. AD 800-1600: An Introduction Steven P. Ashby, Gitte Hansen, and Irene Baug Chapter 2:‘With staff in hand, and dog at heel’? What did it mean to be an ‘Itinerant’ artisan? Steven P. Ashby Chapter 3: Itinerant Craftspeople in 12th Century Bergen, Norway - Aspects of Their Social Identities Gitte Hansen Chapter 4: Urban craftspeople at Viking-age Kaupang Unn Pedersen Chapter 5. Crafts in the landscape of the powerless A combmaker’s workshop at Viborg SøndersøAD 1020-1024 Jette Linaa Chapter 6. Bone-workers in medieval Viljandi, Estonia: comparison of finds from downtown and the Order’s castle Heidi Luik Chapter 7: Consumers and Artisans: Marketing Amber and Jet in the Early Medieval British Isles Carolyn Coulter Chapter 8. The home-made shoe, a glimpse of a hidden, but most‘affordable’, craft. Quita Mould Chapter 9. Fashion and Necessity. Anglo-Norman leatherworkers and changing markets Quita Mould and Esther Cameron Chapter 10. Tracing the nameless actors: Leatherworking and production of leather artefacts in the town of Turku and Turku Castle, SW Finland Janne Harjula Chapter 11. Ambiguous Stripes: a Sign for Fashionable Wear in Medieval Tartu Riina Rammo, Chapter 12. Silk finds from Oseberg: Production and distribution of high status markers across ethnic boundaries Marianne Vedeler Chapter 13. The soapstone vessel production and trade of Agder and its actors Torbjørn P. Schou Chapter 14. Actors in quarrying. Production and distribution of quernstones and bakestones during the Viking Age and the Middle Ages Irene Baug Chapter 15. The role of Laach Abbey in the medieval quarrying and stone trade Meinrad Pohl Chapter 16. Iron producers in Hedmark in the medieval period - who were they? Bernt Rundberget Chapter 17. What did the blacksmiths do in Swedish towns? Some new results Hans Andersson Chapter 18. The Iron Age blacksmith, simply a craftsman? Roger Jørgensen Chapter 19. Bohemian Glass in the North: Producers, distributors and consumers of late medieval vessel glass Georg Haggrén Chapter 20. If sherds could tell: imported ceramics from the Hanseatic hinterland in Bergen, Norway. Producers, traders and consumers: who were they, and how were they connected? Volker Demuth Chapter 21. Marine trade and transport-related crafts and their actors: People without archaeology? Natascha Mehler
Gitte Hansen is an associate professor in medieval archaeology at the University Museum of Bergen. With the point of outset in a broad specter of 11-13th century urban material culture, her research focuses on different aspects of the identities of ‘ordinary people’ in the Middle Ages. She is particularly interested in craftspeople and consumers of affordable crafts that lived their lives in the Scandinavian area with bordering regions. Steven Ashby is a lecturer in the Department of Archaeology, University of York with specialism in the archaeology of portable material culture and the use of animal products in craft and industry in the medieval period. He is particularly interested in the relationship between the various regions of Britain and Scandinavia before, during, and after the Viking Age. Irene Baug is a postdoctoral researcher in archaeology in the Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion at the University of Bergen. Her research interests deal with social, socio-political and economic aspects of the Viking Age and the Middle Ages. Her research has mainly focused upon utilization of different outfield resources – such as production of different stone products c. AD 700-1500, and distribution and trade of these products within Northern Europe. Her work is based on own archaeological fieldwork, artefacts studies and multidisciplinary cooperation.
The whole volume will, I am sure, bring alive to all readers many
of these 'everyday' craftspeople, products and processes of the
early to late medieval North European world.
*Medieval Settlement Research Vol 31*
Collections of essays can be unwieldy and unfocused, but such, I am
happy to report, is not the case with 'Everyday Products in the
Middle Ages'… the archaeological analysis takes scholars to topics
that are otherwise ignored by textual sources.
*The Medieval Review*
So much archaeological research on the medieval period purports to
be about people but is actually about processes and ‘-isms’. In
this volume, however, while the broad concepts and issues are never
farm from the surface, real people making everyday items are at the
forefront, and their decisions, practices, skills and knowledge –
plus something of the hustle and bustle of daily life – emerge
vividly from the detailed accounts presented in individual
chapters, most of which are well supported by illustrations.
*Medieval Archaeology*
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