Economic Circularity in the Roman and Early Medieval Worlds -

Economic Circularity in the Roman and Early Medieval Worlds

New Perspectives on Invisible Agents and Dynamics
Buch | Hardcover
304 Seiten
2023
Oxbow Books (Verlag)
978-1-78925-996-4 (ISBN)
62,35 inkl. MwSt
Develops and expands current research into the concept of economic circularity, whereby societies reduce waste by recycling, reusing, and repairing raw materials and finished products.
Economic circularity is the ability of a society to reduce waste by recycling, reusing, and repairing raw materials and finished products. This concept has gained momentum in academia, in part due to contemporary environmental concerns. Although the blurry conceptual boundaries of this term are open to a wide array of interpretations, the scholarly community generally perceives circular economy as a convenient umbrella definition that encompasses a vast array of regenerative and preservative processes.

Despite the recent surge of interest, economic circularity has not been fully addressed as a macrophenomenon by historical and archaeological studies. The limitations of data and the relatively new formulation of targeted research questions mean that several processes and agents involved in ancient circular economies are still invisible to the eye of modern scholarship. Examples include forms of curation, maintenance, and repair, which must have had an influence on the economic systems of premodern societies but are rarely accounted for. Moreover, the people behind these processes, such as collectors and scavengers, are rarely investigated and poorly understood. Even better-studied mechanisms, like reuse and recycling, are not explored to their full potential within the broader picture of ancient urban economies.

This volume stems from a conference held at Moesgaard Museum supported by the Carlsberg Foundation and the Centre for Urban Networks Evolutions (UrbNet) at Aarhus University. To enhance our understanding of circular economic processes, the contributions in this volume expand the framework of the discussion by exploring circular economy over the longue durée and by integrating an interdisciplinary perspective. Furthermore, the volume gives prominence to classes of material, processes, agents, and methodologies generally overlooked or ignored in modern scholarship.

Irene Bavuso is Assistant Professor in Medieval History at Utrecht University. Her research focuses on the socio-economic history of the early Middle Ages. Guido Furlan is postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Urban Network Evolutions, Aarhus University. His research interests include the archaeology of Roman towns, and theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of the archaeological record. Emanuele E. Intagliata is Assistant Professor at the Università degli Studi di Milano where he teaches Christian and Medieval Archaeology. His research interests focus on building processes and construction techniques in the late antique East. Julia Steding is Research Assistant is the School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University.

Introduction: approaching circular economies through archaeological and historical sources

I. Bavuso, G. Furlan, E.E. Intagliata, J. Steding

1. The ragpicker’s dream: notes on the continuous role of junk dealers in the past urban economies back to the Roman period

Guido Furlan

2. Laws, Letters and Graves: the Organisation of Scavenging in the Early Medieval Period

Irene Bavuso

3. Exploring reuse in a prestige environment: the palace city of Samarra

Rhiannon Garth Jones

4. Through glass: recycling and reuse practices brought out by archaeometry and history

Line Van Wersch and Alexis Wilkin

5. Beauty, utility, value. Examples of glass reuses from the Roman period to the early Middle Ages

Cristina Boschetti

6. Identifying episodes of recycling in the archaeological record

Jonathan Wood

7. Textile reuse in the Roman naval contexts

Margarita Gleba and Maria Stella Busana

8. Functional, spiritual or aesthetic? – Investigating reuse in high-status 7th-century necklace pendants from Early medieval England

Rowan S. English

9. Stars aligned: tracking the use and reuse of Viking Age metal-casting models for star-shaped brooches through 3D visualisation

Derek Parrot

10. Seeking the invisible with legacy data. Notes on the use of archives for the study of ancient circular economies

Emanuele E. Intagliata

11. Evolutionary Design Processes in Thermal Architecture of the Roman Empire

Allyson McDavid

12. Reused columns in an ancient circular economy

Jon M. Frey

13. Mind the Gap: Researching Reuse Practices in Palmyra. The example of Reused Inscriptions

Julia Steding

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 170 x 240 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Mittelalter
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Technik Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10 1-78925-996-7 / 1789259967
ISBN-13 978-1-78925-996-4 / 9781789259964
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