Title Everyday products in the Middle Ages : crafts, consumption and the individual in northern Europe, c. AD 800-1600 / edited by Gitte Hansen, Steven P. Ashby and Irene Baug

Published Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2015

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; 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; Chapter 2: 'With staff in hand, and dog at heel'? What did it mean to be an 'itinerant' artisan?; Chapter 3: Itinerant craftspeople in 12th century Bergen, Norway -- aspects of their social identities; Chapter 4: Urban craftspeople at Viking-age Kaupang; Chapter 5: Crafts in the landscape of the powerless. A combmaker's workshop at Viborg Søndersø AD 1020-1024 Chapter 6: Bone-workers in medieval Viljandi, Estonia. Comparison of finds from downtown and the Order's castleChapter 7: Consumers and artisans. Marketing amber and jet in the early medieval British Isles; Chapter 8: The home-made shoe, a glimpse of a hidden, but most 'affordable', craft; Chapter 9: Fashion and necessity. Anglo-Norman leatherworkers and changing markets; Chapter 10: Tracing the nameless actors. Leatherworking and production of leather artefacts in the town of Turku and Turku Castle, SW Finland; Chapter 11: Ambiguous stripes -- a sign for fashionable wear in medieval Tartu Chapter 12: Silk finds from Oseberg. Production and distribution of high status markers across ethnic boundariesChapter 13: The soapstone vessel production and trade of Agder and its actors; Chapter 14: Actors in quarrying. Production and distribution of quernstones and bakestones during the Viking Age and the Middle Ages; Chapter 15: The role of Laach Abbey in the medieval quarrying and stone trade; Chapter 16: Iron producers in Hedmark in the medieval period -- who were they?; Chapter 17: What did the blacksmiths do in Swedish towns? Some new results Chapter 18: The Iron Age blacksmith, simply a craftsman?Chapter 19: Bohemian glass in the north. Producers, distributors and consumers of late medieval vessel glass; 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?; Chapter 21: Marine trade and transport-related crafts, and their actors -- people without archaeology? Summary The medieval marketplace is a familiar setting in popular and academic accounts of the Middle Ages, but we actually know very little about the people involved in the transactions that took place there, how their lives were influenced by those transactions, or about the complex networks of individuals whose actions allowed raw materials to be extracted, hewn into objects, stored and ultimately shipped for market. Twenty diverse case studies combine leading edge techniques and novel theoretical approaches to illuminate the identities and lives of these much overlooked ordinary people, painting o Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher Subject Handicraft -- Europe, Northern -- History Artisans -- Europe, Northern -- History Consumption (Economics) -- Europe, Northern -- History Artisans Consumption (Economics) Handicraft Northern Europe Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Hansen, Gitte Ashby, Steven P Baug, Irene LC no. 2015002182 ISBN 9781782978060 1782978062 9781782978077 1782978070 9781782978084 1782978089

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