Household Goods in the European Medieval and Early Modern Countryside [electronic resource].

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Intro -- Foreword and introduction -- Catarina Tente* & Claudia Theune** -- Section One -- Archaeology and Household -- Is that all there is? -- Reflections on the presence and survival of household goods in archaeological contexts -- Bert Groenewoudt * & Rowin van Lanen** -- Household goods illuminated by motivation and need theories in Hanfelden Castle in the early modern countryside of Styria, Austria -- Iris Winkelbauer* & Claudia Theune**

Household home life in the and Russian countryside during the 16th to the first half of the 18th century, according to archaeological finds in Alexandrovskaya Sloboda -- Irina Zaytseva* -- Tenth-century peasant houses and household goods -- The potential and limitations of the archaeological record from Beira Alta (Portugal) -- Catarina Tente*, Gabriel de Souza**, Jo�ao Lu�is Veloso *** & Catarina Meira**** -- Section Two -- Temporary households -- Exploring the 'extended' household?

Historical landscapes, material culture and building materials at the Monte Fasce settlements, Liguria, Italy (17th-21st centuries) -- Giulia Bizzarri* & Anna Maria Stagno** -- Household in a settlement dealing with large animal husbandry from the 10th-11th centuries in west Hungary -- �Ad�am S�andor P�atkai* -- Section Three -- Living conditions and household -- 'Making a House a Home' -- Odd deposits in ordinary households in later medieval Ireland AD 1200-1600 -- Karen Dempsey* -- Checking in at the multispecies hotel: natureculture and the early medieval house -- Rachel I. Brody*

Households from early medieval rural settlements in Alto Alentejo (Central Portugal): material culture and social structures -- Sara Prata* & Fabi�an Cuesta-G�omez** -- Section Four -- Spatial structure and household -- Refitting the past -- The spatial distribution of finds as a key for understanding activities and the use of space in medieval farm buildings in the Northern Netherlands -- Jan van Doesburg* -- Kecskem�et-T�or�okf�ai-d�ul�o -- Structure and topographical elements of an �Arp�adian-Age settlement in the Danube-Tisza interfluve region, Hungary -- Nikoletta Luk�acs* -- Section Five

Social and economic status and household -- Household goods of late medieval peasants in Denmark -- Mette Svart Kristiansen* -- Household goods from excavations at a homestead in Kopaniec (Seifershau), Poland -- Pawe� Duma* & Jerzy Piekalski** -- The contextual value of iron household goods in the late medieval countryside: testimony of the Czech lands -- Tom�a�s Kl�ir*, Martin Janovsk�y** & Lucie Hylmarov�a*** -- Peasant household - noble household: objects and structures -- Some remarks on the household archaeology of late medieval Hungary -- L�aszl�o Ferenczi*, Edit S�arosi** & Csilla Zatyk�o***

Social inequality and household goods in central Iberia during the Early Middle Ages

Although household goods are a well-establish topic in Medieval and Early Modern archaeology, more recent research is overcoming simple typological and technological aspects and pointing to broader approaches, which relates to the understanding of goods' production, consumption strategies, other economic activities and structures of social organization. Thus, the understanding of past societies and cultures relies heavily in the study of their household goods.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 050, 082, 650