Everyday Products in the Middle Ages

List of contributors Preface 1. Everyday products in the Middle Ages. Crafts, consumption and the individual in northern Europe c. AD 800–1600: an introduction Gitte Hansen, Steven P. Ashby and Irene Baug 2. ‘With staff in hand, and dog at heel’? What did it mean to be an ‘itinerant’ artisan? Steven P. Ashby 3. Itinerant craftspeople in 12th century Bergen, Norway – aspects of their social identities Gitte Hansen 4. Urban craftspeople at Viking-age Kaupang Unn Pedersen 5. Crafts in the landscape of the powerless. A combmaker’s workshop at Viborg Søndersø AD 1020–1024 Jette Linaa 6. Bone-workers in medieval Viljandi, Estonia. Comparison of finds from downtown and the Order’s castle Heidi Luik 7. Consumers and artisans. Marketing amber and jet in the early medieval British Isles Carolyn Coulter 8. The home-made shoe, a glimpse of a hidden, but most ‘affordable’, craft Quita Mould 9. Fashion and necessity. Anglo-Norman leatherworkers and changing markets Quita Mould and Esther Cameron iv Contents 10. Tracing the nameless actors. Leatherworking and production of leather artefacts in the town of Turku and Turku Castle, SW Finland Janne Harjula 11. Ambiguous stripes – a sign for fashionable wear in medieval Tartu Riina Rammo 12. Silk finds from Oseberg. Production and distribution of high status markers across ethnic boundaries Marianne Vedeler 13. The soapstone vessel production and trade of Agder and its actors Torbjørn P. Schou 14. Actors in quarrying. Production and distribution of quernstones and bakestones during the Viking Age and the Middle Ages Irene Baug 15. The role of Laach Abbey in the medieval quarrying and stone trade Meinrad Pohl 16. Iron producers in Hedmark in the medieval period – who were they? Bernt Rundberget 17. What did the blacksmiths do in Swedish towns? Some new results Hans Andersson 18. The Iron Age blacksmith, simply a craftsman? Roger Jørgensen 19. Bohemian glass in the north. Producers, distributors and consumers of late medieval vessel glass Georg Haggrén 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 21. Marine trade and transport-related crafts, and their actors – people without archaeology? Natascha Mehler