Late Medieval Archaeology

Las ciudades nazaríes desde la arqueología. Reflexiones sobre Madina Garnata

by Antonio Malpica Cuello

en Antonio Malpica Cuello y Alberto García Porras (ed. ) Las ciudades nazaríes. Nuevas aportaciones desde la arqueología, Granada, Alhulia, 2011, pp. 15-47

Sabbionesi Lara, 2010, Dalla Toscana alla pianura padana: la "maiolica arcaica" e la trasmissione di un sapere tecnologico nell'Italia del XIII secolo, in "Atti del XLIII convegno internazionale della ceramica di Albisola", pp. 25-33.

by Lara Sabbionesi

Ostkamp, S., 2009, The world upside down. Secular badges and the iconography of the Late Medieval Period: ordinary pins with multiple meanings, Journal of Archaeology in the Low Countries 1.2, 107-125.

by Journal of Archaeology in the Low Countries

Thanks to the use of metal detectors vast numbers of Late Medieval pilgrim and secular badges have been found in the... more Thanks to the use of metal detectors vast numbers of Late Medieval pilgrim and secular badges have been found in the Netherlands. The secular badges give us a glimpse into the worldview of Late Medieval ordinary people. The decorative motifs on the badges and on simple knife handles, ceramic plates and other examples of Late Medieval material culture reveal a picture which can also be found in miniatures
in (sometimes famous) Books of Hours. They show that both the elite and the common man availed themselves of a comparable iconography. Besides the amulet function of the badges another meaning is found in the co-existence of comparable religious examples. An obvious explanation can be found in the popular Late Medieval theme of the inversion of the world and its natural order: the world upside down. This was commonly expressed in the representation depicted with or as an anti-image. By contrasting the most holy with the most profane, Late Medieval people emphasized the negative aspects of sins. Both
positive and negative symbols set an example for a lifestyle of chastity. Contemporary standards and values were principally based on the omnipresent Catholic belief system. The secular badges often represent sinners, who in pursuing brief earthly pleasures were seen as serving the devil instead of focussing
on an eternal life by the side of Christ and his saints. In this respect we may even doubt our interpretation of these badges as items of secular meaning. That the images are almost blasphemous indicates the absolute sway of religion in the medieval world, where even striking secular images served a religious function. The provenance of these finds are urban and rural domestic contexts as well as monasteries and
castles. This reveals the importance of chastity to all ranks in Late Medieval society. It is clear that this phenomenon is not typically urban, as sometimes suggested by written sources.

Troubleyn, L., Kinnaer, F., Ervynck, A., Beeckmans, L., Caluwé, D., Cooremans, B., De Buyser, F., Deforce, K., Desender, K., Lentacker, A., Moens, J., Van Bulck, G., Van Dijck, M., Van Neer, V., & W. Wouters, 2009, Consumption patterns and living conditions inside Het Steen, the late medieval prison of Malines (Mechelen, Belgium)Liesbeth Troubleyn, Frank Kinnaer, Anton Ervynck, Luk Beeckmans, Danielle Caluwé, Brigitte Cooremans, Frans De Buyser, Koen Deforce, Konjev Desender, An Lentacker, Jan Moens, Gaston Van Bulck, Maarten Van Dijck, Wim Van Neer, Werner Wouters: Consumption patterns and living conditions inside Het Steen, the late medieval prison of Malines (Mechelen, Belgium), Journal of Archaeology in the Low Countries 1.2, 5-47.

by Journal of Archaeology in the Low Countries

Excavations at the Main Square (Grote Markt) of Malines (Mechelen, Belgium) have unearthed the building remains of a... more Excavations at the Main Square (Grote Markt) of Malines (Mechelen, Belgium) have unearthed the building remains of a tower, arguably identifiable as the former town prison: Het Steen. When this assumption is followed, the contents of the fills of two cesspits dug out in the cellars of the building illustrate aspects of daily life within the early 14th-century prison. An integrated approach of all find categories, together with the historical context available, illuminates aspects of the material culture of the users of the cesspits, their consumption patterns and the living conditions within the building.

The Archbishop's Palace in Trondheim

by Sæbjørg Walaker Nordeide

published in 'Norwegian Archaeological Review' Vol 36/2 2003, 135-140

De la "grange de Quinquempoix" à la "ferme de la Siaule" (Jouy-le-Moutier, Vauréal) : l'intérêt d'une étude archéogéographique en amont d'opérations préventives

by Emilie Cavanna

Revue archéologique du Vexin français et du Val d'Oise, n°41, 2010, p. 69-91.

Du milieu au territoire : la ferme du Colombier à Varennes-sur-Seine (77). Restitution croisée d'un paysage entre le XVIe et le XVIIIe siècle

by Emilie Cavanna

Avec Séverine Hurard
M.-F Diot (dir.) - Le paysage et l'archéologie : méthodes et outils de la reconstitution des paysages, actes du 135e congrès national des sociétés historiques et scientifiques (Neuchâtel, avril 2010), éd. CTHS, 2011, p. 7-18.

Archéogéographie et archéologie préventive à la Ferme du Colombier (Varennes-sur-Seine, 77). Un exemple d'une collaboration efficace

by Emilie Cavanna

Avec Séverine Hurard
Dossier « L’archéogéographie. Un état des lieux et de leurs dynamiques » (M. Watteaux, dir.), Les Nouvelles de l’archéologie, n°25, octobre 2011, p. 41-46.

Lecture archéogéographique d’une implantation au XVIe siècle : le Colombier, un ancrage dans l’espace pour une insertion sociale

by Emilie Cavanna

Sous presse, parution le 22 mars 2012.
S. Hurard (dir.) - La Ferme du Colombier à Varennes-sur-Seine, coll. Recherches Archéologiques, INRAP/CNRS, Paris, 2012.

L’espace : un estimateur archéologique de distinction sociale ? L’exemple des élites médiévales et modernes « aux champs »

by Emilie Cavanna

Actes de la table-ronde « Des hommes aux champs ». Pour une archéologie des espaces ruraux dans le Nord de la France du Néolithique au Moyen Age (Caen, 8-9 octobre 2008), CRAHM éd., à paraître (2012).

Cartes et plans anciens : des images de l’espace du passé à déchiffrer

by Emilie Cavanna

Les images : regards sur les sociétés, actes de la troisième Journée Doctorale d'Archéologie de Paris I (31 mai 2008), Archéo.Doct n°3, Presses de la Sorbonne, Paris, à paraître (2012).

Relikte einer spätmittelalterlichen Zeidlerei in der Oberpfalz. To be published in: Siedlungsforschung. Archäologie – Geschichte – Geographie. Schwerpunktthema „Konsum und Kulturlandschaft"

by Lukas Werther

Co-authored with H. Losert, B. Niemeyer and F. Turner. Paper shortly before completion.

Kataloške jedinice - Srednji vijek [Catalogue units - Middle Ages], in: "Slavonija, Baranja i Srijem - Vrela europske civilizacije [The Sources of European Civilisation]", Galerija Klovićevi Dvori [Eds. V. Kusin, B. Šulc], Zagreb, 2009, 136-137, 140, 142-144, 147, 150, 153-155, 173, 180-181 (cat. units: 431, 434, 447, 449, 457, 471, 492-493, 510-516, 574, 612-624). - Croatian only

by Željko Demo

Ranosrednjovjekovna zbirka - Kataloške jedinice, Bibliografija [The Early Medieval Collection — Catalogue units, Bibliography], in: “Arheološki muzej u Zagrebu — Izbor iz fundusa [The Archaeological Museum in Zagreb —Selection from the Collections]”, Arheološki muzej u Zagrebu [Ed. A. Rendić-Miočević], Zagreb 1993, 184-197 (cat. units. 271-272, 278-281, 284-290, 293-297, 300-304), 199-202. - Croatian only

by Željko Demo

Archaeological Excavations at Bawtry Masonic Hall, South Yorkshire, July 2010: the cemetery of the medieval hospital of St Mary Magdalene

by Lauren McIntyre

Co-authored with Prof. D. M. Hadley, 2010, The University of Sheffield. Unpublished interim report.

In July 2010 an excavation was undertaken in the car park of the Masonic hall at Bawtry, South Yorkshire as part of a... more In July 2010 an excavation was undertaken in the car park of the Masonic hall at Bawtry, South Yorkshire as part of a field school run by the Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield, with support from Wessex Archaeology (Sheffield). The Masonic hall was the chapel of the medieval hospital of Bawtry, and the principal aim of the field school was to throw new light on the hospital and on the cemetery that was associated with it, which had been identified during excavations in 2006 and 2007. During the 2010 excavation, eighteen graves were identified, and subsequent analysis of both the articulated and disarticulated skeletal remains identified a minimum number of fifty three individuals. It was demonstrated that the cemetery served a broad cross-section of the population, which was relatively healthy. A radiocarbon date is awaited from one of the skeletons, but at this stage all of the evidence indicates that the burials were all of later medieval date. A small number of medieval artefacts were recovered, including a 13th-century coin, a copper-alloy plate (of a type used in medieval medicinal cures for damaged or infected joints) and the copper-alloy ferrule from the end of a walking stick. The remains of a late medieval wall were encountered running eastwards from the east wall of the Masonic hall; this wall was either the remains of a boundary wall or of a building, and it appears to be perpetuated into the 19th century, when a wall in a similar location is depicted on images of the chapel.

The earliest Valencian lustreware? The provenance of the pottery from Pula in Sardinia

by Hugo Blake

Published in 1992 in Everyday and Exotic Pottery from Europe (eds D Gaimster and M Redknap), pp 202-224. Oxford: Oxbow.
Posted with the consent of the co-authors, the estate of Tiziano Mannoni, and the publisher Oxbow. Hugo Blake, Michael Hughes, the estate of Tiziano Mannoni, and Francesca Porcella assert and give notice of their right under section 77 of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the co-Authors of this paper.

The earliest Valencian lustreware? The provenance of the pottery from Pula in Sardinia

by Hugo Blake

Published in 1992 in Everyday and Exotic Pottery from Europe (eds D Gaimster and M Redknap), pp 202-224. Oxford: Oxbow.
Posted with the consent of the co-authors, the estate of Tiziano Mannoni, and the publisher Oxbow. Hugo Blake, Michael Hughes, the estate of Tiziano Mannoni, and Francesca Porcella assert and give notice of their right under section 77 of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the co-Authors of this paper.

Źródła archeologiczne w badaniach nad zróżnicowaniem społeczności lokalnych w późnośredniowiecznej ziemi drohickiej (with summary in English: Archaeological Resources in Research on Local Community Diversity in the Late Mediaeval Drohiczyn Land)

by Michal Dzik

[in:] Obraz struktury społecznej w świetle źródeł archeologicznych w pradziejach i średniowieczu, M. Rybicka ed., Rzeszów 2011, pp. 169-177

I "bacini" del campanile di S. Ambrogio a Varazze

by Hugo Blake

'I "bacini" del campanile di S Ambrogio a Varazze' was published in the Bollettino Ligustico 22 (1970), pp 130-136. Posted with the consent of the publisher Sagep. Hugo Blake asserts and gives notice of his right under section 77 of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the Author of this paper.

La ceramica medievale spagnola e la Liguria

by Hugo Blake

'La ceramica medievale spagnola e la Liguria' was published in the Atti V Convegno Internazionale della Ceramica (Albisola, 1972), pp 55-105.
Posted with the consent of the Centro Ligure per la Storia della Ceramica. Hugo Blake asserts and gives notice of his right under section 77 of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the Author of this paper.