Pottery and Social Life in Medieval England
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Pottery and Social Life in Medieval England

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Pottery and Social Life in Medieval England

About this book

How can pottery studies contribute to the study of medieval archaeology? How do pots relate to documents, landscapes and identities? These are the questions addressed in this book which develops a new approach to the study of pottery in medieval archaeology. Utilising an interpretive framework which focuses upon the relationships between people, places and things, the effect of the production, consumption and discard of pottery is considered, to see pottery not as reflecting medieval life, but as one actor which contributed to the development of multiple experiences and realities in medieval England. By focussing on relationships we move away from viewing pottery simply as an object of study in its own right, to see it as a central component to developing understandings of medieval society. The case studies presented explore how we might use relational approaches to re-consider our approaches to medieval landscapes, overcome the methodological and theoretical divisions between documents and material culture and explore how the use of objects could have multiple implications for the formation and maintenance of identities. The use of this approach makes this book not only of interest to pottery specialists, but also to any archaeologist seeking to develop new interpretive approaches to medieval archaeology and the archaeological study of material culture.

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Information

Publisher
Oxbow Books
Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9781782976622

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Chapter 1: The Emergent Discipline: Pottery and Medieval Archaeology
  7. Chapter 2: Towards a Relational Archaeology
  8. Chapter 3: Emergent Objects: Situating Pottery in the Material World
  9. Chapter 4: Emergent People: Pottery and Identity
  10. Chapter 5: Emergent Landscapes: Pottery, People and Places
  11. Chapter 6: Pots in Motion: Pottery, Meaning and Change
  12. Chapter 7: An Emergent Discipline
  13. Bibliography