Material exchanges in medieval and early modern Europe : archaeological perspectives

Format:: Book
Language:: English
Imprint:: Turnhout : Brepols, [2021] and ©2021
Subject:: Material culture - Europe - History
Europe - Relations
Europe - Antiquities
Europe - Social conditions - To 1492
Archaeology and history - Europe
Contributor:: Naum, Magdalena, editor, contributor
Linaa, Jette, editor, contributor
Escribano-Ruiz, Sergio, editor, contributor
ISBN:: 9782503593999 and 2503593992
Series:: History of daily life
Description:: 261 pages : illustrations (some color), charts (some color), maps (some color), color portraits ; 24 cm
Bibliographic Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:: The same, but different: reflections on some Medieval stoneware vessels found in Norway / Volker Demuth -- On how to keep the monopoly of diversity: itineraries of foreign pottery in the Basque Country, AD 1300-1700 / Sergio Escribano-Ruiz -- Memorable, modern or mundane?: Investigating the place of porcelain and majolica in homes and hearts in early modern Denmark / Jette Linaa -- A mandatory stop: the trade of imported pottery in Asturias (the NW Iberian Peninsula) during the early modern period / Miguel Busto Zapico -- Pilgrim badges and the magical Middle Ages: aspects of the cult of saints, magical thinking, and religious identity / Rachel Facius -- Producers, intermediaries, and consumers: the role of Adriatic ports in the Venetian glass trade / Samantha Garwood -- Clothing cultures in the seventeenth-century Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth: the male footwear from Elbląg as an example of Western-type fashion / Aleksandra Kulesz -- Kilian Stobæus and his fossil collections: science, aesthetics, and emotions / Magdalena E. Naum, Cajsa Sjöberg, Håkan Håkansson, Anders Lindskog, Mats E. Eriksson and Per Ahlberg
Summary:: "The study of the movement of 'things' - the exchange of objects as gifts or through trade, the itineraries that they followed when on the move, and their changing importance from location to location - can offer unique insights into our understanding of past societies; and archaeology plays a vital role in allowing such movements to be traced. Nonetheless the circulation of objects across time, and between peoples and places, has long been neglected as a field of research in its own right. This volume aims to address this gap in scholarship by drawing on recent archaeological research to provide a detailed study of the movement of objects across Europe in the late medieval and early modern period. The contributions gathered here trace the interactions between peoples, ideas, and objects in order to explore the impact of movement both on the material things themselves, and on the people who manufactured, exchanged, or used such goods. The volume draws on a wide range of archaeological evidence to explore subjects as varied as production and transport, modes of trade, the connections between trade and religion, and the emotional connections between things and people. Together, they offer a pioneering approach to our understanding of objects and their movement in the past."--Back cover
Collection:: BGC Monograph Stacks
Call Number:: GN575 .M38 2021
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