Overview

How can we study the impact of rules on the lives of past people using archaeological evidence? To answer this question, Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation presents case studies drawn from across Europe and the United States. Covering areas as diverse as the use of space in a nineteenth-century U.S. Army camp, the deposition of waste in medieval towns, the experiences of Swedish migrants to North America, the relationship between people and animals in Anglo-Saxon England, these case studies explore the use of archaeological evidence in understanding the relationship between rules, lived experience, and social identity.

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Author:   Barbara Hausmair ,  Ben Jervis ,  Ruth Nugent ,  Eleanor Williams
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781836950516

ISBN 10:   1836950519
Pages:   356
Publication Date:   01 April 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation: An Introduction Barbara Hausmair, Ben Jervis, Ruth Nugent and Eleanor Williams PART I: NETWORKS Introduction: Rules, Networks, and Different Kinds of Sources Natascha Mehler Chapter 1. Rules, Identity and a Sense of Place in a Medieval Town. The Case of Southampton’s Oak Book Ben Jervis Chapter 2. Meat for the Market. The Butchers’ Guild Rules from 1267 and Urban Archaeology in Tulln, Lower Austria Ute Scholz Chapter 3. Rubbish and Regulations in the Middle Ages: A Comparison of Urban and Rural Disposal Practices Greta Civis Chapter 4. How to Plant a Colony in the New World: Rules and Practices in New Sweden and the Seventeenth-Century Delaware Valley Magdalena Naum PART II: SPACE AND POWER Introduction: Rules and the Built Environment Harold Mytum Chapter 5. Embodied Regulations: Searching for Boundaries in the Viking Age Marianne Hem Eriksen Chapter 6. What Law Says That There Has to be a Castle? The Castle Landscape of Frodsham, Cheshire Rachel Swallow Chapter 7. Shakespearian Space-Men: Spatial Rules in London’s Early Playhouses Ruth Nugent Chapter 8. US Army Regulations and Spatial Tactics: The Archaeology of Indulgence Consumption at Fort Yamhill, Oregon, United States, 1856–1866 Justin E. Eichelberger Chapter 9. Religion in the Asylum: Lunatic Asylum Chapels and Religious Provision in Nineteenth-Century Ireland Katherine Fennelly Chapter 10. Prison-Issue Artefacts, Documentary Insights and the Negotiated Realities of Political Imprisonment: The Case of Long Kesh/Maze, Northern Ireland Laura McAtackney PART III: CORPOREALITY Introduction: Maleficium and Mortuary Archaeology: Rules and Regulations in the Negotiation of Identities Duncan Sayer Chapter 11. Gone to the Dogs? Negotiating the Human-Animal Boundary in Anglo-Saxon England Kristopher Poole Chapter 12. Adherence to Islamic Tradition and the Formation of Iberian Islam in Early Medieval Al-Andalus Sarah Inskip Chapter 13. Break a Rule but Save a Soul. Unbaptized Children and Medieval Burial Regulation Barbara Hausmair Chapter 14. Medieval Monastic Text and the Treatment of the Dead. An Archaeothanatological Perspective on Adherence to the Cluniac Customaries Eleanor Williams Chapter 15. ‘With as Much Secresy and Delicacy as Possible’: Nineteenth-Century Burial Practices at the London Hospital Louise Fowler and Natasha Powers The Archaeology of Rules and Regulation: Closing Remarks Duncan H. Brown Index

Reviews

“This is a high-quality and far-ranging, …dense and rich, edited collection with subject matter spanning 1500 years of historical archaeological research from Northern, Western and Central Europe together with two North American chapters. As such, it constitutes a great achievement by four academics working collaboratively and drawing upon their very different geographical, chronological, and thematic expertise.” • Archaeological Journal “This wide-ranging collection of substantive case studies does demonstrate the central importance of rules in shaping human behavior, social hierarchies, and change, although I think few archaeologists would question this proposition. One of its main contributions is shining a spotlight on the explicit study of rules and regulations. This is an emphasis that derives from particular social theories, but the volume and its authors offer many new insights that will be of interest to all historical archaeologists.” • Historical Archaeology “The impact of rules on the archaeological record has been the focus of many scholars. This volume provides a solid theorized overview of the theme, offering an extensive biography of previous works.” • Charlotte Newman, English Heritage

Author Information

Barbara Hausmair is a post-doctoral researcher at the Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz, Germany where she previously held a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie-Fellowship. She gained her Ph.D. from the University of Vienna, Austria and studied at the Universities of Cambridge and Reading, U.K. as a visiting Ph.D. student.

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