Spinning Yarns: The Archaeological Evidence for Hand Spinning and its Social Implications, c<scp>ad</scp>1200–1500

Standley, Eleanor

doi:10.1080/00766097.2016.1221264

Cited by 21 publications

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“…Items associated with ploughing from Building 1 at Hangleton suggest the seasonal aggregation of communities of practice. If we follow artistic depictions, spindle whorls mediated the social life of peer groups of women, who span as they socialised and watched their children play (see Standley, 2016). These groups, like houses, can be understood in terms of folds and flows, obligation, shared experiences and memory; the demands of the land and spatial proximity all worked to re-constitute them in accordance with varying temporal rhythms.…”

Section: Household Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

Examining Temporality and Difference: an Intensive Approach to Understanding Medieval Rural Settlement

Jervis

2022

J Archaeol Method Theory

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A new theoretical approach to medieval rural settlement, built on the concept of intensity, is proposed. It is argued that analysing settlements as intensive spaces creates new opportunities to explore the emergence of difference in medieval lived experience. The approach is intended to overcome the challenges posed by approaches to medieval architecture framed by binary divisions (e.g. inside/outside). Drawing on posthuman thought, it is argued that such divisions constrain the understanding of how and why difference emerged in the past. The paper advances this approach through its application to the study of house construction and domestic economy in the medieval village of Hangleton, England. It is proposed that difference emerges as everyday practices are performed in constantly changing material environments, generating situationally grounded but varied experiences of rurality. Rather than being subject to macro-scale economic processes, this approach allows us to understand historical change as a patchwork of localised interactions which overflowed the bounds of communities or regions.

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Section: Household Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

Examining Temporality and Difference: an Intensive Approach to Understanding Medieval Rural Settlement

Jervis

2022

J Archaeol Method Theory

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“…27 Cf. Standley 2016, 284-285. The bulls of Innocent VI (1352-1362; John XXIII, found at Brompton on Swale (North Yorkshire); and Innocent IV (1243-54), found at Dunkeld, had been converted into spindle whorls.…”

Section: Other Archaeological Finds Of Bulls Of John XXIIImentioning

confidence: 99%

Bull of Antipope John XXIII found in Mierzyn, Central Poland

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Szymczak

2022

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In 2021, during excavations of the knight’s manor house at Mierzyn, which belonged to the Nagodzice family, a lead bull of theantipope John XXIII (1410-1415) was found. The seal was discovered in the area of the economic hinterland, a few hundred metres south of the stronghold. This is the second archaeological find of a bull of this antipope from the territory of Poland. The article discusses the object in relation to other finds of this kind and in the context of the history of the medieval knight’s seat in Mierzyn.

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“…Gendered interpretations that explore LGBTQ+ perspectives are non-existent and very rare across archaeology more generally. While some publications do foreground ‘gender’—a malapropos for the study of women—these largely tell stories of women in the male world (Standley 2008, 2016; Hicks 2009; Richardson 2012; Wiekart 2014; Collins 2018). With few exceptions, this perceived disinterest in gender contrasts with early medieval, Anglo-Saxon and Viking studies, in which these subjects are explored to some extent (e.g.…”

Section: Gender and Medieval Archaeology In Britain And Irelandmentioning

confidence: 99%