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

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Paperback Edition: ISBN 978-1-78297-805-3
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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.

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ISBN 978-1-78297-806-0 (epub) -- ISBN 978-1-78297-807-7 (prc) -- ISBN 978-1-78297-808-4 (pdf) -- ISBN 978-1-78297-805-3 1. Handicraft--Europe, Northern--History. 2. Artisans--Europe, Northern--History. 3. Consumption (Economics)--Europe, Northern--History. I. Hansen, Gitte. II. Ashby, Steven P. III. Baug, Irene.

TT55

745.509368--dc23

2015002182

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Front cover: A Bohemian glass works from the beginning of the 15th century. (Source: British Library. Picture book of Sir John Mandevilles Travels. Add. 24189, f.16r).

Back cover: Everyday products from Western Norway. (Photo by G. Hansen and S. Skare, University Museum of Bergen, Norway).

Gitte Hansen, Steven P. Ashby and Irene Baug

Steven P. Ashby

Gitte Hansen

Unn Pedersen

Jette Linaa

Heidi Luik

Carolyn Coulter

Quita Mould

Quita Mould and Esther Cameron

Janne Harjula

Riina Rammo

Marianne Vedeler

Torbjrn P. Schou

Irene Baug

Meinrad Pohl

Bernt Rundberget

Hans Andersson

Roger Jrgensen

Georg Haggrn

Volker Demuth

Natascha Mehler

H ANS A NDERSSON

Dept. of Archaeology and Ancient History

Lund University Lund, Sweden

arkhann@me.com

S TEVEN P. A SHBY

Department of Archaeology

University of York

York, UK

steve.ashby@york.ac.uk

I RENE B AUG

Institute for Archaeology, History,

Culture Studies and Religion

University of Bergen

Bergen, Norway

Irene.baug@ahkr.uib.no

E STHER C AMERON

Honorary Research Associate

Institute of Archaeology

Oxford, UK

Esther.cameron@arch.ox.ac.uk

C AROLYN C OULTER

University of Southampton

Southampton, UK

cc1104@soton.ac.uk

V OLKER D EMUTH

Telemark fylkeskommune

Skien, Norway

volker.demuth@t-fk.no

G EORG H AGGRN

Department of Archaeology

University of Helsinki

Helsinki, Finland

georg.haggren@helsinki.fi

G ITTE H ANSEN

Bergen University Museum

University of Bergen

Bergen, Norway

Gitte.hansen@um.uib.no

J ANNE H ARJULA

Department of Archaeology

University of Turku

Turku, Finland

janne.harjula@utu.fi

R OGER J RGENSEN

Troms University Museum

UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Troms, Norway

Roger.Jorgensen@uit.no

J ETTE L INAA

Antiquarian Department

Moesgaard Museum

Hjbjerg, Denmark

Jette.Linaa@moesmus.dk

H EIDI L UIK

Institute of History

Tallinn University

Tallin, Estonia

heidi.luik@tlu.ee

N ATASCHA M EHLER

Urgeschichte und Historische Aarchologie

University of Vienna

Vienna, Austria

natascha.mehler@univie.ac.at

Q UITA M OULD,

Barbican Research Associates

51 Whin Common Road, Denver

Downham Market

Norfolk, UK

quita@onetel.com

U NN P EDERSEN

Department of Archaeology,

Conservation and History

University of Oslo

Oslo, Norway

unn.pedersen@iakh.uio.no

M EINRAD P OHL

Bergen University College

Bergen, Norway

meinrad.pohl@hib.no

R IINA R AMMO

Institute of History and Archaeology

University of Tartu

Tartu, Estonia

riina.rammo@ut.ee

B ERNT R UNDBERGET

Museum of Culture History

University of Oslo,

Oslo, Norway

bernt.rundberget@khm.uio.no

T ORBJRN P. S CHOU

Institute for Archaeology, History,

Culture Studies and Religion

University of Bergen

Bergen, Norway

topresch@gmail.com

M ARIANNE V EDELER

Museum of Cultural History

University of Oslo

Oslo, Norway

Marianne.vedeler@khm.uio.no

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

Gitte Hansen, Steven P. Ashby and Irene Baug

This book is about people in the past. It presents 20 case studies into the activities and identities of producers, traders and consumers in northern Europe and the North Atlantic region. While some of the studies draw lines back into the 7th century, and some push on well into the 18th, the majority deal with actors individuals, groups, or representatives of institutions in the period between the 9th and the 17th centuries. In detail, our focus is on the identity of the actors associated with crafts and industries that processed bone and antler, stone, fine and base metals, iron, wool, silk, glass, leather, and pottery.