A life without emotion is unimaginable, yet archaeological narratives, as well as many other
historical accounts based on texts and visual sources, often read as though people in the …

This book presents a synthesis and analysis of the possessions of non-elite rural
households in medieval England. Drawing on the results of the Leverhulme Trust funded …

Simple Summary The population of medieval England (AD 400–1400) was largely
employed in farming-related activities. Cattle were crucial as providers of power as well as …

This paper explores the use of iron in the Late Bronze Age and the earliest Iron Age (c. 1100–
300 BC) in south-eastern Sweden, with a focus on the final Bronze Age and Pre-Roman Iron …

This issue of 'Das Mittelalter'explores the voice of small things. 1 We approach artefacts that
are no bigger than one's hand not as silent witnesses to people's lives, but as agents that …

This article delves into human responses to pandemics, with a specific focus on the religious
practices and folk rituals employed by various social groups in Poland and the western …

THIS ARTICLE EXAMINES CERAMIC LOBED VESSELS and the wider contexts in which
they may have been used for communal drinking. 14th-and 15th-century archaeological …

Love as an important part of human emotion has been depicted in literature, folklore, and art
since ancient China. However, in archaeological settings, direct skeletal evidence for love is …

A growing number of archaeologists are developing significant interests in the emotional
lives of people in the past. These emergent interests generally represent a theoretical and …

Later medieval archaeology rarely addresses gender explicitly. Is this because gender has
'worked'–in other words, it is fully embedded in the discipline–or is it because it has failed to …