A United Europe of Things 2: Further Consideration of Medieval Small Finds from a Pan-European Perspective
Resource type
Book
Creator (person)
Date published
2025
Abstract
This book builds on the first volume – A United Europe of Things: portable material culture across Medieval Europe, published by Springer in 2023 – offering articles on medieval small finds from across Europe. This earlier book drew together papers presented at various Annual Meetings of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) sponsored by the Medieval European Research Community (MERC). This new volume does likewise, as well as including some shorter papers following a ‘call’ within the growing community of the European Medieval Finds (EMF) network.
Since 2023, another successful session, entitled United Europe of Things? Materialities Creating Medieval Ritual Landscapes, was organised at the EAA in Rome (2024). This combined the theme of a ‘united Europe of things’ with a special focus on ‘persistence and change in medieval ritual landscapes’ to tie in with the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded ‘Medieval Ritual Landscape’ (MeRit) project run by the University of Reading with the British Museum; one of us (Michael) is co-investigator. Besides the three of us (Michael, Maria and Jakub), this session was organised by Robert Webley (University of Reading, the post-doctoral researcher on MeRit) and Petar Parvanov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences). It included 18 papers from 21 scholars based in Austria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden and the UK. The next EAA session in Belgrade (2025) is again being organised by us three, this time with SaÅ¡a ÄŒaval (Slovenian Academy of Sciences & MERC Committee). This will focus on the shared and diverse experiences of medieval life, emphasising the ability of material culture – especially metal finds – to reveal the interconnected nature of European societies in the Middle Ages.
Project(s)
European Medieval Finds (EMF) network
Publisher
Yellow Point Publications
Place of publication
Wrocław
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