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Medieval Clothing and Textiles
The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines and with a special focus on reconstruction.
Osebergfunnet
"A century has passed since the Oseberg find was excavated in the summer of 1904. The task of publishing the finds was led by A.W. Brøgger, based on a plan drawn up by Gabriel Gustafson. Volumes 1, 2, 3 and 5 were published between 1917 and 1928. The intention was to publish the textiles as vol. 4 of the five-volume series. The long delay in its appearance has been due to many unfortunate circumstances ... At his [Gustafson] death in 1928 he left a large number of analyses, manuscript fragments and notes. His work was continued by Bjørn Hougen in 1932. Hogen finished the maniscript on the tapestries published here. In 1976 Anne Stine Ingstad was given the task of publishing the undecorated textiles. The manuscript had been finished when she died in 1998. Margareta Nockert was engaged to publish the silks, silk embroideries and tablet weaves. She has also written the appendix on the tapestries and edited the volume together with Anne M. Rosenqvist ... [et al.]. This collaborative work is dedicated to the memory of those who worked on the material without living to see the finished volume"--P. 353-354.
Textiles and the Medieval Economy
Archaeologists and textile historians bring together 16 papers to investigate the production, trade and consumption of textiles in Scandinavia and across parts of northern and Mediterranean Europe throughout the medieval period. Archaeological evidence is used to demonstrate the existence or otherwise of international trade and to examine the physical characteristics of textiles and their distribution in order to understand who was producing, using and trading them and what they were being used for. Historical evidence, mainly textual, is employed to link textile names to places, numbers and prices and thus provide an appreciation of changing economics, patterns of distribution and the organisation of trade. Different types and qualities of cloths are discussed and the social implications of their production and import/export considered against a developing background of urbanism and increasing commercial wealth.
Islamic Art Collections
An annotated index and general orientation of Islamic art collections in museums, libraries, other institutions and on private hands. Includes a short description of each collection, its main characteristics, documentation, publications and exhibitions.
Reassessing the Roles of Women as 'Makers' of Medieval Art and Architecture (2 Vol. Set)
The twenty-four studies in this volume propose a new approach to framing the debate around the history of medieval art and architecture to highlight the multiple roles played by women, moving beyond today's standard division of artist from patron.
The Conversion of Scandinavia
In this book a MacArthur Award-winning scholar argues for a radically new interpretation of the conversion of Scandinavia from paganism to Christianity in the early Middle Ages. Overturning the received narrative of Europe's military and religious conquest and colonization of the region, Anders Winroth contends that rather than acting as passive recipients, Scandinavians converted to Christianity because it was in individual chieftains' political, economic, and cultural interests to do so. Through a painstaking analysis and historical reconstruction of both archeological and literary sources, and drawing on scholarly work that has been unavailable in English, Winroth opens up new avenues for studying European ascendency and the expansion of Christianity in the medieval period.
Textiles and Clothing, C.1150-c.1450
Scraps of clothing and other textiles are among the most evocative items to be discovered by archaeologists, signalling as they do their owner's status and concerns.
War and Worship
War and Worship concerns textile deposits from the bog sites of Thorsberg in Germany and Nydam, Vimose and Illerup Ådal in Denmark. All four sites are well-known for containing a substantial amount of archaeological materials, particularly weapons, but they also contain, as integral parts of the weapon deposits, a smaller number of preserved textiles, which nevertheless constitute outstanding assemblages. With the exception of Thorsberg, publications dealing particularly with textiles from weapon deposits are almost non-existent. The textiles from each site are analysed, then compared to one another and described as a unit characterising the particular site. Comparisons are then made betwee...
