IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1333: The Entangled Making, Uses, and Visualisations of Textiles in the Early Medieval Period, 450-1100, IV
Wednesday 5 July 2023, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | AHRC Project 'Unwrapping the Galloway Hoard' / National Museum of Scotland / University of Glasgow |
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| Organisers: | Tracey Davison, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York Alexandra Makin, School of Humanities (Archaeology), University of Glasgow |
| Moderator/Chair: | Tracey Davison, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York |
| Paper 1333-a | Entangled Economies: Women and Textiles in Late Antiquity (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Economics - General, Women's Studies |
| Paper 1333-b | Of Cloth and Money: The Role of Woollen Commodity Currency in Politics and Religion in Early Medieval Iceland (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Economics - General |
| Paper 1333-c | Trade and Textiles: Exploring Women's Roles in the Medieval Icelandic Economy (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Economics - General, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | This session explores the entangled roles of textiles within early medieval society. Surviving textiles, documentary sources, and art works show that what textiles were made from, where they were produced, their biographies, society's secular and religious beliefs, and who made and used them incorporated meanings and sent messages. By studying these ethereal objects, we gain insights into cultural understandings and displays of wealth, social position, and connections and entanglements of power across secular and religious worlds. All this evidence demonstrates that textiles and early medieval societies were deeply entwined, often bringing much of the then known, unknown and spiritual together. |