Late medieval sea vessels in Northern Europe – Current research perspectives
15 – 16 February, 2024
Workshop at Bremerhaven

15 February
Venue: Archives of the German Maritime Museum, Eichstr. 13, 27572 Bremerhaven

9:00–9:30 Arrival

9:30–9:45 Welcome and introduction
Alexander Reis / Ruth Schilling / Sebastian Vehlken
(German Maritime Museum, Bremerhaven)

9:45–10:15 The concept of ship type deployed for pre-industrial times – an issue for archaeology
Marko Richter (German Association for Shipping- and Maritime History, Section Berlin-Brandenburg)

10:15–10:45 Seafaring vs Ocean Going: an analysis of the performance and capabilities of medieval vessels
Pat Tanner (Swansea University)

10:45–11:15 Coffee break

11:15–11:45 Medieval shipfinds in Estonia
Priit Lätti (Estonian Maritime Museum, Tallinn)

11:45–12:15 The Svælget 2 Wreck, a cog-like vessel off Copenha-gen
Otto Uldum (The Viking Ship Museum, Roskilde)

12:15–12:45 The Eyðanstovuskipið Wreck
Philipp Grassel (German Maritime Museum, Bremerhaven) / Kevin Martin (University of Iceland)

12:45–14:00 Lunch

14:00–14:30 Northern Europe’s late medieval ships from a dendroarchaeology perspective
Aoife Daly (Dendro.dk, Brønshøj)

14:30–15:00 Dendrochronological sampling of a shipwreck – methods applied on Lübeck’s Hansa Ship from the mid-17th century
Felix Rösch (Department of Archaeology and Monument Preservation, City of Lübeck) / Daniel Balanzategui (Dendro-Lab Technical University of Applied Sciences Lübeck)

15:00–15:30 The Bremen Ship‘s timbers – a mirror of northern German forest resource management
Mike Belasus (Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research, Wilhelmshaven)

15:30–16:00 Coffee break

16:00–16:30 Harbors and ships in the Mediterranean and the North Sea during the Hanseatic period: written and pictorial sources
Tobias Daniels (University of Munich)

16:30–17:00 Silk Road trade and porcelain exchange: ports, ships and commerce from the East to Northern Europe during the late medieval period and beyond
Andi Esters (Haifa International University)

17:00–17:30 The medieval maritime transport geography of the Viken region
Staffan von Arbin (Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg)

19:00–22:00 Conference dinner

16 February
Venue: Archives of the German Maritime Museum
Eichstraße 13, 27572 Bremerhaven

9:00–9:30 An update on archaeological work in later medieval
London’s shipwright’s quarter just west of the Tower of London
Damian Goodburn (London)

9:30–10:00 The Teerhof in Bremen – the place to built the so-called Bremen Cog?
Dieter Bischop (Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, Bremen)

10:00–10:30 Högholmen in Hiittinen – a medieval harbor in the Finnish archipelago
Kalle Virtanen (The Finnish Heritage Agency, Helsinki)

10:30–11:00 Coffee break

11:00–11:30 What shall we do with the drunken sailor? Conspicuous consumption as cultural practice in ports in Southern Norway 1400–1700
Jørgen Johannessen (Norwegian Maritime Museum, Oslo)

11:30–12:00 Ship biographies as a form of microhistory
Renard Gluzman (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

12:00–13:00 Round table, sum-up, community building

13:00–14:30 Lunch
and transfer to the German Maritime Museum, Hans-Scharoun-Platz 1, 27568 Bremerhaven

Venue: Cog-Hall of the German Maritime Museum
Hans-Scharoun-Platz 1, 27568 Bremerhaven

The so-called Bremen Cog: recent research and documentation

14:30–15:00 Analysis of material: oakum, rigging, wood
Volker Otte (Senckenberg-Museum of Natural History, Görlitz) / Irina Ruf (Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt) / Margarita Gleba (University of Padua) / Jana Gelbrich (Leibniz-IWT, Bremen)

15:00–15:30 Rethinking rigging reconstructions
Damien Sanders (Dinan, France)

15:30–16:00 Monitoring
Heidi Hastedt (Jade University of Applied Sciences, Oldenburg) / Silke Wiedmann (German Maritime Museum, Bremerhaven)