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

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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 Steven P. Ashby, Gitte Hansen, and Irene Baug Chapter 2:`With staff in hand, and dog at heel'? What did it mean to be an `Itinerant' artisan? Steven P. Ashby Chapter 3: Itinerant Craftspeople in 12th Century Bergen, Norway - Aspects of Their Social Identities Gitte Hansen Chapter 4: Urban craftspeople at Viking-age Kaupang Unn Pedersen Chapter 5. Crafts in the landscape of the powerless A combmaker's workshop at Viborg SondersoAD 1020-1024 Jette Linaa Chapter 6. Bone-workers in medieval Viljandi, Estonia: comparison of finds from downtown and the Order's castle Heidi Luik Chapter 7: Consumers and Artisans: Marketing Amber and Jet in the Early Medieval British Isles Carolyn Coulter Chapter 8. The home-made shoe, a glimpse of a hidden, but most`affordable', craft. Quita Mould Chapter 9. Fashion and Necessity. Anglo-Norman leatherworkers and changing markets Quita Mould and Esther Cameron Chapter 10. Tracing the nameless actors: Leatherworking and production of leather artefacts in the town of Turku and Turku Castle, SW Finland Janne Harjula Chapter 11. Ambiguous Stripes: a Sign for Fashionable Wear in Medieval Tartu Riina Rammo, Chapter 12. Silk finds from Oseberg: Production and distribution of high status markers across ethnic boundaries Marianne Vedeler Chapter 13. The soapstone vessel production and trade of Agder and its actors Torbjorn P. Schou Chapter 14. Actors in quarrying. Production and distribution of quernstones and bakestones during the Viking Age and the Middle Ages Irene Baug Chapter 15. The role of Laach Abbey in the medieval quarrying and stone trade Meinrad Pohl Chapter 16. Iron producers in Hedmark in the medieval period - who were they? Bernt Rundberget Chapter 17. What did the blacksmiths do in Swedish towns? Some new results Hans Andersson Chapter 18. The Iron Age blacksmith, simply a craftsman? Roger Jorgensen Chapter 19. Bohemian Glass in the North: Producers, distributors and consumers of late medieval vessel glass Georg Haggren 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? Volker Demuth Chapter 21. Marine trade and transport-related crafts and their actors: People without archaeology? Natascha Mehler

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