Theme:
1. Networks, networking, communication: archaeology of interactions
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
CANCELLED A United Europe of Things 2. Large Scale and Local Networks of Differences and Similarities in Medieval Material Culture
Content:
The first session on this theme was held at EEA 2019 Bern and enjoyed great interest and a large audience. However, almost all papers were focused mostly on North-West Europe, raising a need for a broader European perspective.
Material culture can reveal numerous types of networks and connection. Here in this session we would like to focus on similarities and differences in material culture ‘in and between’ regions in the period between AD 1000 and AD 1550. This will allow us to observe networks of material culture in different social and economic levels, and the impact on it by historical processes of unification and disintegration. Broadening the chronology also opens discussion on the appearance and disappearance of small finds in burials in some parts of Europe, and thus, allows us to have an insight on the impact on material culture of one of the largest networks in Medieval Europe, the Church. Furthermore, we like to invite proposals with examples on dealing with large scale archaeological data, in order to have a comparative perspective on the digital analysis of networks in material culture.
We will accept papers concerning full and late medieval (1000-1550) material culture (mostly small finds, but not only) focusing on:
- grave finds and their presence in burials (impoverishment of cemeteries)
- finds that are typical in regions as well as their comparison with other regions
- finds that are atypical and uncommon
- possible borders and peripheries of a common material culture
- interactions between local material culture and imported objects
- production, consumption and interregional exchange
- moments of change – new material culture (or technologies) taking over older ones
- studies on interpreting material culture
- projects focusing on the digital collection, visualisation and analysis of material culture
Keywords:
material culture, interregional studies, interpreting material culture, digital humanities, Pan-European horizon, grave goods
Session associated with MERC:
yes
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
Main organiser:
Jakub Sawicki (Czech Republic) 1
Co-organisers:
Michael Lewis (United Kingdom) 2,3
Mária Vargha (Austria) 4
Affiliations:
1. Institute of Archaeology, Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague
2. British Museum
3. Portable Antiquities Scheme
4. University of Vienna, Institute for History, Digital Humanities
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