This article aims to shed light on the practice of reading the book of hours by considering who engaged in this practice, how the book of hours was read, and what the goal of such reading activity was.
Archaeometry of medieval Islamic glazed ceramics from North Yemen
November 8, 2012 By
The Yemen Archaeological Project is concerned with the history and culture of a medieval Islamic university town, Zabid, and its interaction with neighboring settlements and the outside world, from A.D. 700 to 1750.
The Amber Trail in early medieval Eastern Europe.
September 30, 2012 By
The standard method employed in characterization studies of amber, namely infrared spectrography, can discriminate roughly between Baltic amber and amber from other European sources…
In Heaven and on Earth: Church Treasure in Late Medieval Bohemia
August 15, 2012 By
My work, thus, focuses on the intellectual concepts and practical policies involved in the development of treasuries in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in Bohemia. It oscillates between three main disciplines of history: art, religious, and cultural history.
Rural Settlements in Medieval Norway, AD 400-1400
March 12, 2012 By
In the 5th and 6th centuries the three aisled longhouse with a byre and a living section appears to dominate on rural settlements in all regions. From the 7th century onwards the diversity is greater.
Going native, becoming German: Isotopes and identities in late Roman and early medieval England
March 8, 2012 By
In these accounts, the individual and the group were biologically constituted
in the sense that all the ‘people’ were descended from a common ancestor. Identity and belonging were carried and delivered in the blood; individuals were born into the people.
Objects of Devotion: The Material Culture of Italian Renaissance Piety, 1400–1600
February 2, 2012 By
Why did Renaissance shoppers fill their baskets with rosaries, crucifixes, Christ-dolls and devotional paintings? A new study by historian Dr Mary Laven investigates the significance of Catholic clutter, as she explains.
The Archaeology of Play Things: Theorising a Toy Stage in the Biography of Objects
January 8, 2012 By
The cemeteries contained the remains of not less than 867 people, some of whom died in childhood, but all of whom, if they had survived the first few years of life…
A social analysis of Viking jewellery from Iceland
August 30, 2011 By
This thesis is original in attempting to decipher the social messages conveyed in jewellery.
Medieval glass vessels in England AD 1200-1500
August 25, 2011 By
Medieval glass vessels in England AD 1200-1500: A Survey By Rachel Caroline Tyson PhD Dissertation, Durham University, 1996 Abstract: A considerable amount of vessel glass of the period 1200 to 1500 has been excavated in England, particularly since the 1960s. This thesis conducts a survey of the vessel glass from museums and archaeology units, from […]
The Perception and Interpretation of Hanseatic Material Culture in the North Atlantic: Problems and Suggestions
August 7, 2011 By
The Perception and Interpretation of Hanseatic Material Culture in the North Atlantic: Problems and Suggestions By Natascha Mehler Journal of the North Atlantic, Special Volume 1 (2009) Abstract: This paper takes the discussion on the concept of Hanseatic material culture from the Baltic and moves it west towards the North Atlantic islands and Norway, focusing […]
Ceramics as a Reflection of Maritime Commercial Activity at Crusader Acre
July 23, 2011 By
Ceramics as a Reflection of Maritime Commercial Activity at Crusader Acre By Edna J. Stern One Thousand Nights and Days: Akko through the Ages, edited by A.E. Killebrew and V. Raz-Romeo (Haifa, 2010) Introduction: A large variety of Crusader period ceramics have been unearthed during large-scale excavations carried out by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) at […]
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