Contents

List of contributors

Preface

1. Everyday products in the Middle Ages. Crafts, consumption and the individual in northern Europe c. AD 800–1600: an introduction

Gitte Hansen, Steven P. Ashby and Irene Baug

2. ‘With staff in hand, and dog at heel’? What did it mean to be an ‘itinerant’ artisan?

Steven P. Ashby

3. Itinerant craftspeople in 12th century Bergen, Norway – aspects of their social identities

Gitte Hansen

4. Urban craftspeople at Viking-age Kaupang

Unn Pedersen

5. Crafts in the landscape of the powerless. A combmaker’s workshop at Viborg Søndersø AD 1020–1024

Jette Linaa

6. Bone-workers in medieval Viljandi, Estonia. Comparison of finds from downtown and the Order’s castle

Heidi Luik

7. Consumers and artisans. Marketing amber and jet in the early medieval British Isles

Carolyn Coulter

8. The home-made shoe, a glimpse of a hidden, but most ‘affordable’, craft

Quita Mould

9. Fashion and necessity. Anglo-Norman leatherworkers and changing markets

Quita Mould and Esther Cameron

10. Tracing the nameless actors. Leatherworking and production of leather artefacts in the town of Turku and Turku Castle, SW Finland

Janne Harjula

11. Ambiguous stripes – a sign for fashionable wear in medieval Tartu

Riina Rammo

12. Silk finds from Oseberg. Production and distribution of high status markers across ethnic boundaries

Marianne Vedeler

13. The soapstone vessel production and trade of Agder and its actors

Torbjørn P. Schou

14. Actors in quarrying. Production and distribution of quernstones and bakestones during the Viking Age and the Middle Ages

Irene Baug

15. The role of Laach Abbey in the medieval quarrying and stone trade

Meinrad Pohl

16. Iron producers in Hedmark in the medieval period – who were they?

Bernt Rundberget

17. What did the blacksmiths do in Swedish towns? Some new results

Hans Andersson

18. The Iron Age blacksmith, simply a craftsman?

Roger Jørgensen

19. Bohemian glass in the north. Producers, distributors and consumers of late medieval vessel glass

Georg Haggrén

20. If sherds could tell. Imported ceramics from the Hanseatic hinterland in Bergen, Norway. Producers, traders and consumers: who were they, and how were they connected?

Volker Demuth

21. Marine trade and transport-related crafts, and their actors – people without archaeology?

Natascha Mehler