Relationality and Economic Emergence
Ceramic Networks and Urban Assemblages in Medieval ( c. 1250–1400) England
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 17753545 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ben Jervi (0000-0001-5295-0647, University of Leicester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 1-25 |
| Publication date | 2026-04-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-9571 • E-ISSN: 1741-2722 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/eaa.2025.10025 |
| OpenAlex | W7154147561 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 32 |
This article presents an analysis of the relationship between urbanization as an ongoing process and economic development in medieval ( c. AD 1250–1400) southern and midland England. It is proposed that understanding the distribution of pottery through network analysis provides a means of comprehending the role played by affective material relations in these processes. Rather than seeing pottery distributions as reflecting an overarching economic context, the author investigates how relations with pottery, and between pottery and other commodities, generated distinctive and situated modes of urban life. He proposes that the medieval economy was a patchwork rather than a coherent system. The study draws on Deleuze’s concept of the ‘virtual’ to examine how economic emergence and urbanization are open-ended and difference-making processes
Distribution (mathematics) · Pottery · Situated · Urbanization · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · Medieval Architecture and Archaeology · Medieval Literature and History
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Thinking Through Networks
Cutting the Network, Knotting the Line
Itinerant Assemblages and Material Networks
The urban hierarchy in the later Middle Ages
The urban hierarchy in medieval Staffordshire
Mapping the urbanization of Medieval England
Cuisine and Urban Identities in Medieval England
The Archaeology of Medieval Small Towns
Small and Medium-Sized Towns in Medieval England
Medieval Woodland, Agriculture and Industry in Rockingham Forest, Northamptonshire
The Medieval Trade of the Ports of the Wash
Change and Archaeology
Network Analysis and Entanglement
Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe
Beyond Urban Hinterlands. Political Ecology, Urban Metabolism and Extended Urbanization in Medieval England
Market Towns and the Countryside in Late Medieval England
Repetition, persistence and generality
Medieval Market Towns and Simple Commodity Production
Small places with large consequences
The expansion of the south-western fisheries in late medieval England
Minoritarian entrepreneurs
Networks and nodal points
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |