Ben Jervis
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5704337 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ben Jervis |
| PRENOMES | Ben |
| SOBRENOME | Jervis |
| ASSINATURA | BEN JERVIS |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton, UK |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Temporality and Political Ecology in a Medieval Small Town
The potential of legacy data for experimenting with new conceptual approaches to medieval urbanity is explored through a case study of Romsey, Hampshire (UK). The paper explores the theme of ‘forgotten towns’ in three ways. Firstly, by mapping the ‘archaeological method assemblage’ of development-led archaeology it is proposed that an emphasis on the characterization of significance creates forgetfulness as data are not synthesized and the potent…
Multi-isotope evidence shows extensive free-roaming pig husbandry endured in medieval England
This study investigates regional variation in pig husbandry in 12th–16th century England and its role in sustaining woodlands, wetlands and small towns. Medieval pig management is often characterised as a transition from forest-dwelling pigs to pigs being increasingly confined in urban sites, a key stage in the evolutionary history of the European domestic pig. However, multi-isotope analysis (δ 13 C, δ 15 N, δ 34 S, 87 Sr/ 86 Sr) of dentine, bon…
Small and Medium-Sized Towns in Medieval England
DESPITE THEIR UBIQUITY, the character and function of small towns in medieval England continues to provoke debate. These places, situated at the intersection of urban and rural life, are ambiguous and display a high degree of diversity. Drawing upon recent analyses of modern European small towns, I propose a new approach to this debate. The paper begins with an assessment of the potential and limitations of hierarchical approaches to medieval tow…
The Archaeology of Emptiness? Understanding Open Urban Spaces in the Medieval World
Using examples from medieval Europe and Africa, an approach to understanding urban open spaces is proposed. We argue that new digital and high-resolution methodologies, combined with interpretive frameworks which stress the affective capacities of the material world, call for a reappraisal of open spaces as places of disruption, creativity, and emergent urbanity. We advance an intensive approach to create a methodological basis on which to reimag…
Patrick Ottaway . Winchester
Patrick Ottaway . Winchester: Swithun's ‘City of Happiness and Good Fortune’: an archaeological assessment. 2017. Oxford & Havertown (PA): Oxbow; 978-1-78570-449-9 hardback £40. - Volume 92 Issue 361
Ceramics and Coastal Communities in Medieval (Twelfth–Fourteenth Century) Europe
Using the example of pottery imported into the Channel ports of southern England, an approach to examining the role of pottery in the emergence and mediation of coastal communities is proposed here. Building on recent scholarship, it is argued that it is no longer tenable to see pottery as a carrier of identity, or as part of a ‘cultural package’, with meaning emerging with identity as people interact with pottery within and without port environm…
Objects, Environment, and Everyday Life in Medieval Europe
This volume presents Europe-wide perspectives on urban life in medieval Europe through the study of artefacts and environmental remains. \n \nArtefacts and environmental remains are abundant from archaeological excavations across Europe, but until now they have most commonly been used to accompany broader narratives built on historical sources and studies of topography and buildings, rather than being studied as important evidence in their own ri…
Objects. Environment, and Everyday Life in Medieval Europe
Exploring Text and Objects
A study was undertaken to assess the potential of the integrated analysis of metalwork excavated from medieval (late 13th–16th-century) rural settlements in the midlands of England and inventories (dating from c 1370–c 1440) drawn from the royal escheators’ records for the same region. The study aimed to explore the value and meaning of objects to the non-elite members of rural communities and focussed on three classes of artefact: metal vessels,…
Middens, memory and the effect of waste. Beyond symbolic meaning in archaeological deposits. An early medieval case study
Building upon the debate published in volume 19 of Archaeological dialogues , this contribution explores how, rather than seeing deposits as meaningful, we can move to explore the processes through which things and spaces become waste as well as the broader social effects of these processes in relation to elements of identity and sense of place. An extended case study of depositional practice in the early medieval settlement of Hamwic (Southampto…
Make-do and Mend
This volume derives from a session held at the 2010 Theoretical Archaeology Group conference (Bristol University). The aims of this session were to explore occurrences of compromise (or making do) and repair (mending) in the past, with a particular focus on material culture. This original scope broadened to encompass reuse – inextricably linked to the central themes, particularly when considered through a biographical approach
What's So Special? A Reinterpretation of Anglo-Saxon 'Special Deposits
BUILDING ON HAMEROW'S previous study in Medieval Archaeology 50, the interpretation of Anglo-Saxon 'special deposits', primarily of animal bone and pottery, from England are discussed. By examining their composition and the variable nature of depositional practices, we question why these deposits are considered 'special'. Such deposits are often interpreted within a ritual or functional dichotomy and we propose that the adoption of a biographical…
A patchwork of people, pots and places
This study investigates how engagements with objects are active in the construction of a 'social assemblage', drawing on influences from work on 'symmetrical archaeology' and Actor-Network Theory. This interpretive perspective is explored through a case study, investigating the pottery consumed in Anglo-Saxon Southampton, demonstrating how engagements through exchange, use and deposition were active in creating a patchwork of connections which ca…
Ceramics and Coastal Communities in Medieval (Twelfth–Fourteenth Century) Europe
Using the example of pottery imported into the Channel ports of southern England, an approach to examining the role of pottery in the emergence and mediation of coastal communities is proposed here. Building on recent scholarship, it is argued that it is no longer tenable to see pottery as a carrier of identity, or as part of a ‘cultural package’, with meaning emerging with identity as people interact with pottery within and without port environm…
A patchwork of people, pots and places
This study investigates how engagements with objects are active in the construction of a 'social assemblage', drawing on influences from work on 'symmetrical archaeology' and Actor-Network Theory. This interpretive perspective is explored through a case study, investigating the pottery consumed in Anglo-Saxon Southampton, demonstrating how engagements through exchange, use and deposition were active in creating a patchwork of connections which ca…
The Archaeology of Emptiness? Understanding Open Urban Spaces in the Medieval World
Using examples from medieval Europe and Africa, an approach to understanding urban open spaces is proposed. We argue that new digital and high-resolution methodologies, combined with interpretive frameworks which stress the affective capacities of the material world, call for a reappraisal of open spaces as places of disruption, creativity, and emergent urbanity. We advance an intensive approach to create a methodological basis on which to reimag…
Exploring Text and Objects
A study was undertaken to assess the potential of the integrated analysis of metalwork excavated from medieval (late 13th–16th-century) rural settlements in the midlands of England and inventories (dating from c 1370–c 1440) drawn from the royal escheators’ records for the same region. The study aimed to explore the value and meaning of objects to the non-elite members of rural communities and focussed on three classes of artefact: metal vessels,…
What's So Special? A Reinterpretation of Anglo-Saxon 'Special Deposits
BUILDING ON HAMEROW'S previous study in Medieval Archaeology 50, the interpretation of Anglo-Saxon 'special deposits', primarily of animal bone and pottery, from England are discussed. By examining their composition and the variable nature of depositional practices, we question why these deposits are considered 'special'. Such deposits are often interpreted within a ritual or functional dichotomy and we propose that the adoption of a biographical…
What's So Special? A Reinterpretation of Anglo-Saxon 'Special Deposits
BUILDING ON HAMEROW'S previous study in Medieval Archaeology 50, the interpretation of Anglo-Saxon 'special deposits', primarily of animal bone and pottery, from England are discussed. By examining their composition and the variable nature of depositional practices, we question why these deposits are considered 'special'. Such deposits are often interpreted within a ritual or functional dichotomy and we propose that the adoption of a biographical…
A patchwork of people, pots and places
This study investigates how engagements with objects are active in the construction of a 'social assemblage', drawing on influences from work on 'symmetrical archaeology' and Actor-Network Theory. This interpretive perspective is explored through a case study, investigating the pottery consumed in Anglo-Saxon Southampton, demonstrating how engagements through exchange, use and deposition were active in creating a patchwork of connections which ca…
Make-do and Mend
This volume derives from a session held at the 2010 Theoretical Archaeology Group conference (Bristol University). The aims of this session were to explore occurrences of compromise (or making do) and repair (mending) in the past, with a particular focus on material culture. This original scope broadened to encompass reuse – inextricably linked to the central themes, particularly when considered through a biographical approach
Middens, memory and the effect of waste. Beyond symbolic meaning in archaeological deposits. An early medieval case study
Building upon the debate published in volume 19 of Archaeological dialogues , this contribution explores how, rather than seeing deposits as meaningful, we can move to explore the processes through which things and spaces become waste as well as the broader social effects of these processes in relation to elements of identity and sense of place. An extended case study of depositional practice in the early medieval settlement of Hamwic (Southampto…
Exploring Text and Objects
A study was undertaken to assess the potential of the integrated analysis of metalwork excavated from medieval (late 13th–16th-century) rural settlements in the midlands of England and inventories (dating from c 1370–c 1440) drawn from the royal escheators’ records for the same region. The study aimed to explore the value and meaning of objects to the non-elite members of rural communities and focussed on three classes of artefact: metal vessels,…
Objects, Environment, and Everyday Life in Medieval Europe
This volume presents Europe-wide perspectives on urban life in medieval Europe through the study of artefacts and environmental remains. \n \nArtefacts and environmental remains are abundant from archaeological excavations across Europe, but until now they have most commonly been used to accompany broader narratives built on historical sources and studies of topography and buildings, rather than being studied as important evidence in their own ri…
Objects. Environment, and Everyday Life in Medieval Europe
Ceramics and Coastal Communities in Medieval (Twelfth–Fourteenth Century) Europe
Using the example of pottery imported into the Channel ports of southern England, an approach to examining the role of pottery in the emergence and mediation of coastal communities is proposed here. Building on recent scholarship, it is argued that it is no longer tenable to see pottery as a carrier of identity, or as part of a ‘cultural package’, with meaning emerging with identity as people interact with pottery within and without port environm…
Patrick Ottaway . Winchester
Patrick Ottaway . Winchester: Swithun's ‘City of Happiness and Good Fortune’: an archaeological assessment. 2017. Oxford & Havertown (PA): Oxbow; 978-1-78570-449-9 hardback £40. - Volume 92 Issue 361
The Archaeology of Emptiness? Understanding Open Urban Spaces in the Medieval World
Using examples from medieval Europe and Africa, an approach to understanding urban open spaces is proposed. We argue that new digital and high-resolution methodologies, combined with interpretive frameworks which stress the affective capacities of the material world, call for a reappraisal of open spaces as places of disruption, creativity, and emergent urbanity. We advance an intensive approach to create a methodological basis on which to reimag…
Small and Medium-Sized Towns in Medieval England
DESPITE THEIR UBIQUITY, the character and function of small towns in medieval England continues to provoke debate. These places, situated at the intersection of urban and rural life, are ambiguous and display a high degree of diversity. Drawing upon recent analyses of modern European small towns, I propose a new approach to this debate. The paper begins with an assessment of the potential and limitations of hierarchical approaches to medieval tow…
Temporality and Political Ecology in a Medieval Small Town
The potential of legacy data for experimenting with new conceptual approaches to medieval urbanity is explored through a case study of Romsey, Hampshire (UK). The paper explores the theme of ‘forgotten towns’ in three ways. Firstly, by mapping the ‘archaeological method assemblage’ of development-led archaeology it is proposed that an emphasis on the characterization of significance creates forgetfulness as data are not synthesized and the potent…
Multi-isotope evidence shows extensive free-roaming pig husbandry endured in medieval England
This study investigates regional variation in pig husbandry in 12th–16th century England and its role in sustaining woodlands, wetlands and small towns. Medieval pig management is often characterised as a transition from forest-dwelling pigs to pigs being increasingly confined in urban sites, a key stage in the evolutionary history of the European domestic pig. However, multi-isotope analysis (δ 13 C, δ 15 N, δ 34 S, 87 Sr/ 86 Sr) of dentine, bon…
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