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