Ass. Prof. Dr. Carsten Jahnke, University of Copenhagen
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