Household Goods in the European Medieval and Early Modern Countryside.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tente, Catarina.

Contributor:

Theune, Claudia.

Series:

Ruralia Series

Ruralia Series ; v.XIV

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Household archaeology.

Material culture.

Europe--Rural conditions--Congresses.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Sidestone Press, 2023.

Summary:

Although household goods are a well-establish topic in Medieval and Early Modern archaeology, more recent research is overcoming simple typological and technological aspects and pointing to broader approaches, which relates to the understanding of goods' production, consumption strategies, other economic activities and structures of social organization. Thus, the understanding of past societies and cultures relies heavily in the study of their household goods to understand people, groups and societies. In this context, the aim of the Ruralia XIV Conference was to emphasize the significance of household archaeology to the study of the European countryside in Medieval and Modern times under a cross-cultural approach. Detailed analysis of single contexts, small parts of sites, faunal, botanical and soil studies enables us to reconstruct common peoples' activities and interactions within their homes. House functions can be detected by means of specific installations but also by inventories and location of goods, evidence for particular activities inside, such as cooking and eating, storage, weaving, refuse disposal, resting, etc. or by a comprehensive overview of outdoor surroundings. All this is evidence of functional purposes but it can also tell us about the rank and wealth of their owners, their daily lives, household compositions, family concepts and even gender statuses. Moreover, structural analysis can give evidence about spheres of interaction and patterned behaviours within a house. In different sections (archaeology and household; temporary households; living conditions; spatial structure; household objects and social and economic status) case studies across Europe are presented.

Contents:

Intro

Foreword and introduction

Catarina Tente* &amp

Claudia Theune**

Section One

Archaeology and Household

Is that all there is?

Reflections on the presence and survival of household goods in archaeological contexts

Bert Groenewoudt * &amp

Rowin van Lanen**

Household goods illuminated by motivation and need theories in Hanfelden Castle in the early modern countryside of Styria, Austria

Iris Winkelbauer* &amp

Household home life in the and Russian countryside during the 16th to the first half of the 18th century, according to archaeological finds in Alexandrovskaya Sloboda

Irina Zaytseva*

Tenth-century peasant houses and household goods

The potential and limitations of the archaeological record from Beira Alta (Portugal)

Catarina Tente*, Gabriel de Souza**, João Luís Veloso *** &amp

Catarina Meira****

Section Two

Temporary households

Exploring the 'extended' household?

Historical landscapes, material culture and building materials at the Monte Fasce settlements, Liguria, Italy (17th-21st centuries)

Giulia Bizzarri* &amp

Anna Maria Stagno**

Household in a settlement dealing with large animal husbandry from the 10th-11th centuries in west Hungary

Ádám Sándor Pátkai*

Section Three

Living conditions and household

'Making a House a Home'

Odd deposits in ordinary households in later medieval Ireland AD 1200-1600

Karen Dempsey*

Checking in at the multispecies hotel: natureculture and the early medieval house

Rachel I. Brody*

Households from early medieval rural settlements in Alto Alentejo (Central Portugal): material culture and social structures

Sara Prata* &amp

Fabián Cuesta-Gómez**

Section Four

Spatial structure and household

Refitting the past.

The spatial distribution of finds as a key for understanding activities and the use of space in medieval farm buildings in the Northern Netherlands

Jan van Doesburg*

Kecskemét-Törökfái-dűlő

Structure and topographical elements of an Árpádian-Age settlement in the Danube-Tisza interfluve region, Hungary

Nikoletta Lukács*

Section Five

Social and economic status and household

Household goods of late medieval peasants in Denmark

Mette Svart Kristiansen*

Household goods from excavations at a homestead in Kopaniec (Seifershau), Poland

Paweł Duma* &amp

Jerzy Piekalski**

The contextual value of iron household goods in the late medieval countryside: testimony of the Czech lands

Tomáš Klír*, Martin Janovský** &amp

Lucie Hylmarová***

Peasant household - noble household: objects and structures

Some remarks on the household archaeology of late medieval Hungary

László Ferenczi*, Edit Sárosi** &amp

Csilla Zatykó***

Social inequality and household goods in central Iberia during the Early Middle Ages

Carlos Tejerizo García*, Juan Pablo López García**, Iñaki Martín Viso***, Ginevra Panzarino**** &amp

Iván Aguilera Díez*****

Lord in the village

Can houseware and personal equipment indicate the presence of a social class?

Andrej Janeš *

Local societies and early medieval domestic economies in light of the Basque Country archaeological record (8th‑10th centuries)

Juan Antonio Quirós*

Section Six

Particular activities - particular household objects

Pottery in medieval rural households - archaeological research perspectives in Southern Germany

Rainer Schreg*

Household goods for winter travel and leisure in Norway - objects, games and processes of enculturation

Marie Ødegaard* &amp

Kjetil Loftsgarden**.

Household goods of Ottoman soldiers in the rural fortified settlements of the 16th-17th centuries in Hungary

Ágnes Kolláth*, Bianka Kovács**, Gyöngyi Kovács*** &amp

Zsófia Nádai****

A sign of wealth or everyday objects?

The use of stoneware vessels in medieval and early modern southern Finland

Tuuli Heinonen*

Artefacts of osseous and keratinous materials from the Netherlands - the project

Jørn T. Zeiler*, Marloes J. Rijkelijkhuizen** &amp

Joyce van Dijk***

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ISBN:

9789464270624

9464270624