Everyday Products in the Middle Ages: Crafts, Consumption and the Individual in Northern Europe c. AD 800-1600

648 Pages·2015·44.59 MB·English

by  Gitte Hansen

Contents
List of contributors
Preface
1. Everyday products in the Middle Ages. Crafts, consumption and the
individual in northern Europe c. AD 800–1600: an introduction
Gitte Hansen, Steven P. Ashby and Irene Baug
2. ‘With staff in hand, and dog at heel’? What did it mean to be an ‘itinerant’
artisan?
Steven P. Ashby
3. Itinerant craftspeople in 12th century Bergen, Norway – aspects of their
social identities
Gitte Hansen
4. Urban craftspeople at Viking-age Kaupang
Unn Pedersen
5. Crafts in the landscape of the powerless. A combmaker’s workshop at
Viborg Søndersø AD 1020–1024
Jette Linaa
6. Bone-workers in medieval Viljandi, Estonia. Comparison of finds from
downtown and the Order’s castle
Heidi Luik
7. Consumers and artisans. Marketing amber and jet in the early medieval
British Isles
Carolyn Coulter
8. The home-made shoe, a glimpse of a hidden, but most ‘affordable’, craft
Quita Mould
9. Fashion and necessity. Anglo-Norman leatherworkers and changing markets
Quita Mould and Esther Cameron
10. Tracing the nameless actors. Leatherworking and production of leather
artefacts in the town of Turku and Turku Castle, SW Finland
Janne Harjula
11. Ambiguous stripes – a sign for fashionable wear in medieval Tartu
Riina Rammo
12. Silk finds from Oseberg. Production and distribution of high status markers
across ethnic boundaries
Marianne Vedeler
13. The soapstone vessel production and trade of Agder and its actors
Torbjørn P. Schou
14. Actors in quarrying. Production and distribution of quernstones and
bakestones during the Viking Age and the Middle Ages
Irene Baug
15. The role of Laach Abbey in the medieval quarrying and stone trade
Meinrad Pohl
16. Iron producers in Hedmark in the medieval period – who were they?
Bernt Rundberget
17. What did the blacksmiths do in Swedish towns? Some new results
Hans Andersson
18. The Iron Age blacksmith, simply a craftsman?
Roger Jørgensen
19. Bohemian glass in the north. Producers, distributors and consumers of late
medieval vessel glass
Georg Haggrén
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
21. Marine trade and transport-related crafts, and their actors – people without
archaeology?
Natascha Mehler
List of contributors
HANS ANDERSSON
Dept. of Archaeology and Ancient History Lund University Lund, Sweden
[email protected]
STEVEN P. ASHBY
Department of Archaeology University of York
York, UK
[email protected] IRENE BAUG
Institute for Archaeology, History, Culture Studies and Religion University of
Bergen Bergen, Norway
[email protected] ESTHER CAMERON
Honorary Research Associate Institute of Archaeology Oxford, UK
[email protected] CAROLYN COULTER
University of Southampton Southampton, UK
[email protected]
VOLKER DEMUTH
Telemark fylkeskommune Skien, Norway
[email protected] GEORG HAGGRÉN
Department of Archaeology University of Helsinki Helsinki, Finland
[email protected] GITTE HANSEN
Bergen University Museum University of Bergen Bergen, Norway
[email protected] JANNE HARJULA Department of Archaeology University
of Turku Turku, Finland
[email protected] ROGER JØRGENSEN
Tromsø University Museum UiT The Arctic University of Norway Tromsø,
Norway
[email protected] JETTE LINAA Antiquarian Department Moesgaard
Museum
Højbjerg, Denmark
[email protected] HEIDI LUIK
Institute of History Tallinn University
Tallin, Estonia
[email protected]
NATASCHA MEHLER
Urgeschichte und Historische Aarchäologie University of Vienna Vienna,
Austria
[email protected] QUITA MOULD, Barbican Research Associates 51
Whin Common Road, Denver Downham Market
Norfolk, UK
[email protected]
UNN PEDERSEN
Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway
[email protected] MEINRAD POHL
Bergen University College Bergen, Norway
[email protected] RIINA RAMMO
Institute of History and Archaeology University of Tartu Tartu, Estonia
[email protected]
BERNT RUNDBERGET
Museum of Culture History University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
[email protected] TORBJØRN P. SCHOU
Institute for Archaeology, History, Culture Studies and Religion University of
Bergen Bergen, Norway
[email protected]
MARIANNE VEDELER
Museum of Cultural History University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway
[email protected]
Preface
This book has been several years in the making. The majority of the papers
published here were originally presented at an exploratory workshop entitled
‘Actors and Affordable Crafts: Social and Economic Networks in Medieval
Northern Europe’. This workshop, held in Bergen, Norway in February 2011,
was organized by Gitte Hansen, Steven P. Ashby and Irene Baug. Twenty-four
material-culture researchers from Northern Europe came together to enter into a
dialogue about ‘actors’ engaged in ‘affordable crafts’. The participants were
invited in Spring 2009, a considerable time before the workshop was due to take
place, in order to ensure ample time for intellectual preparation ahead of the
meeting. In the invitation, we challenged the participants to revisit their
traditional fields of research and ‘find the actors’: the individuals behind the
production, trade, and use of our various crafts. Pre-papers, distributed prior to
the meeting, ensured that everyone was able to participate in a well-informed
manner, and the result was an inspiring and productive meeting. It was agreed
that we would publish a volume, and here it is! We would like to thank Clare
Litt and the staff of Oxbow books for their support in seeing this volume through
from start to finish.
Gitte Hansen, Steven P. Ashby and Irene Baug Bergen and York March 2014