Textiles and Economy in the Middle Ages

Textiles and Economy in the Middle Ages

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Angela Huang / Carsten Jahnke, SAXO-Institut, University of Copenhagen
Veranstaltungsort
The new University (KUA), 27.0.47
Ort
Copenhagen
Land
Denmark
Vom - Bis
19.04.2012 - 21.04.2012
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Ass. Prof. Dr. Carsten Jahnke, University of Copenhagen

Textiles have always been one of humanities fundamental needs. Therefore it is not surprising that, from the Middle Ages on, this sector developed a highly specialized and standardized production as well as an international distribution system. Altogether, between 800 and 1500, production techniques as well as trade and consumerism underwent profound but uneven changes throughout Europe.

Historians and archeologists all over the world are dealing with the economical aspects of textiles, their trade and production. Case studies, new source material and archeological methods led to new insights into textiles as a commodity. But this also led to the conclusion that we still no far too little about the diversity of textiles produced and traded all throughout Europe.

Thus, the papers presented at the conference will discuss economic aspects of textiles, focusing on the axis of trade that connected the Netherlands and England, Scandinavia, the Hanseatic Area, Poland and Russia. Economic historians and archeologists will discuss raw materials, technology, production, distribution and consumption of textiles from 8th century until around 1500, looking both at the overall structure and regional characteristics of European textile production and trade.

Programm

The program is also online under: http://medievaltextiles.saxo.ku.dk/

Programme
Conference Location: New KUA, Room 27.0.47

Thursday, April 19th 2012 – Panel I: International Textile Trade in the Middle Ages 9.00-9.30 Arrival & Registration 9.30-10.15

Introduction
Carsten Jahnke: Textiles and Economy – State of Research and Perspectives

10.15-11.30 North-Western Europe
Stuart Jenks: The Missing Link

Angela Huang: Hanseatic Textile Production in fifteenth-century Long Distance Trade

11.30-13.00 Lunch Break

13.00-15.00 Scandinavia

Eva Andersson Strand: Textile Exchange, Trade and Production in Scandinavian Viking Age and Early Medieval Societies

Marianne Vedeler: Trading of silk to Scandinavia in the Viking Age

Michèle Hayeur Smith: Weaving Wealth: Cloth and Trade in Viking Age and Medieval Iceland

15.00-15.30 Coffee Break

15.30-17.00 Southern Production Centers

John Munro: The Dual Crises of the Late-Medieval Florentine Cloth Industry, 1320 - 1420

Kilian Baur: The Trade with Fustian from Germany to Denmark in the Late Middle Ages

Friday, April 20th 2012 – Panel II: Production, Raw Materials & Technology 9.30-11.30 Raw Materials

Heidi Sherman: Novgorod's Flax Exports and the Hanseatic League in the 14th and 15th centuries

Karin Margarita Frei: New possibilities to trace textile trade in Antiquity

Isabella von Holstein: Isotope analysis of archaeological wool textiles: identifying trade and exploring wool production

11.30-13.00 Lunch Break

13.00-15.00 The Development of Textile Production during the Middle Ages

Lone Gebauer Thomsen: Technological and economic aspects of textile production in Denmark in the Viking Age

Ingvild Øye: Technology and textile production – from the Viking Age and the Middle Ages – Norwegian cases

Elizabeth Wincott Heckett: Textiles and trade in medieval Ireland

15.00-15.30 Coffee Break

15.30-17.30 The Development of Textile Production during the Middle Ages

Rudolf Holbach: Hanseatic Textile Production and Textile Trade with foreign and local Products

Jerzy Maik: Cloth in the large cities of medieval Poland – production and trade

Riina Rammo: Spinning implements from medieval Tartu: a possible source for a towns’ economic history?

18.30 Reception Dinner at the Center for Textile Research

Saturday, April 21st 2012 – Panel III: Consumption and Evidence 9.30-10.45 Consumption throughout Europe

Thomas Ertl: Noble customer of cloth at the Frankfurt fairs ca. 1500

Gitte Hansen: Luxury for everyone?

10.45-11.15 Coffee Break

11.15-12.30 Consumption throughout Europe

Gale Owen Crocker: Brides, donors, traders: imports into Anglo-Saxon England

Frances Pritchard: Beyond the facts: the social significance of excavated textiles dating to the medieval period based on case studies from Dublin and London

12.30-13.00 Final Discussion 13.00 Final Lunch and Farewell

Kontakt

Carsten Jahnke

SAXO Institut, University of Copenhagen, Njalsgade 80, DK-2300 Copenhagen S

jahnke@hum.ku.dk


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