7th-9th July
University of Siena, Italy
The MPRG is delighted to announce that our 2008 conference will be held in Siena, Italy. The aim is to consider the development of pottery-making, means of distribution, patterns of trade and types of consumer, through archaeological and documentary evidence. This will be an opportunity to compare and contrast pottery traditions of the European Mediterranean states and also, it is hoped, those of North Africa. Many of those products were distributed beyond the Mediterranean, to the east and into northern Europe, and the mechanisms of that trade, and the significance of those pottery types, will also be examined. These themes reach beyond local and national boundaries, and should appeal to anyone interested in what pottery can tell us about economics, politics, culture and meaning.
We are inviting speakers from all over Europe, and western North Africa to address those themes and participate in a wide-ranging and fully representative discussion.
The following papers were presented:
Vessels used for shipping goods in Western Mediterranean during the late Middle Ages and early modern periods – Marta Caroscio
Sistemi di produzione, scambio e consumo di vasellame ceramico in Toscana tra X e XI secolo: citta e campagna a confronto. – Federico Cantin
Byzantine Fine Wares In Italy (10th to 14th Centuries AD): Social And Economic Contexts In The Mediterranean World – Erica d’Amico
Crossing Borders: Mudajar Ceramics in Medieval Spain – Anna McSweeny
Functional analysis of “unglazed” Tuscan medieval pottery – Alessandra Pecci
The development of the medieval pottery production of Savona (Liguria, NW Italy) seen through archaeometric analyses – Claudio Capelli, Roberto Cabella and Paolo Ramagli
Pottery Production and Distribution in South-Western al-Andalus during the Almohad Period: Results of an Innovative Program of Fabric Analysis – Rebecca Bridgman
A Triaxial Blend: Stylistic Similarities From the Mediterranean – Christopher Robinson
Cobalt blue in medieval ceramic production in Valencian workshops: The cases of Manises, Paterna and Valencia (Spain) – Jaume Coll Conesa
The role of ceramics in late medieval and Renaissance Italy – Hugo Blake
A late 15th century household pottery group from Aveiro (Portugal) – Tania Casimiro
C̩ramiques en usage en France mediterranenne aux 15e et 16e siecles: apports de fouilles urbaines recentes (Perpignan, Nimes, Marseille, Nice, Bastia) РVeronique Abel
Medieval fishing communities in coastal Flanders (Belgium) and their relation to western meditteranean commodities – Marnix Pieters and Frans Verhaeghe
The presence and distribution of Italian maiolica in late medieval Flanders – Koen de Groote
The productions of glazed pottery in Tuscany (13th-15th centuries). The transmission of technical knowledge from al-Andalus to Pisa for producing “maioliche arcaiche – Graziella Berti
La maiolica di Montelupo: un indicatore di status socio-economico ? – Antonio Fornaciari
Una koine: produttiva nella Toscana postmedievale tra archeologia, storia e primi dati archeometrici – M Milanese, E Degl’innocenti, I Trombetta and ABrunetti
Carecterización De La Cerámica Andalusà De Finales De La Edad Media. Las Arcillas Y El Soporte Cerámico – Alberto Garcia Porras
Clay pipes as evidence for Mediterranean trade. Underwater finds from Pomegues, France – Peter Davey
Exotic East London: unravelling the sources of the 17th-century imported pottery at 43-53 Narrow Street, E14 – Chris Jarrett
Mediterranean Pottery in Early Post-Medieval London – Lucy Whittingham