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IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 1502: Remarks on Archaeology, Cultural Facts, and Economic Functions of Artisanal Structures within Early Medieval Settlements

Thursday 15 July 2010, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:Department of Medieval History, University of Birmingham
Organiser:Olga Magoula, Department of History & Archaeology, University of Ioannina / School of History & Cultures, University of Birmingham
Paper 1502-aIn Search of the Morphology, Functions, and Contexts of Artisanal Workshops in the South of Gaul in the 6th-10th Century: Lunel Viel, Sezegnin, Chateau Gaillard
(Language: English)
Olga Magoula, Department of History & Archaeology, University of Ioannina / School of History & Cultures, University of Birmingham
Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - General, Archaeology - Sites
Abstract

All three papers adopt interdisciplinary approaches in the examination of the structures of rural and urban artisanal workshops in the early medieval Mediterranean. Central issues such as the forms and roles of these workshops in relation to the products within the contexts of these settlements are investigated in the light of the historical sources, charters, and art. Other issues discussed here involve at times the redating of the sites where these workshops functioned, issues of patronage, and regulation of the supply of the materials and speculations on the modes of the exchange and of the control of this exchange.