A cross-craft approach to ceramic, glass and iron in the Early Middle Ages. The resources of workshops from southern Belgium

International audience ; In northwestern Europe, the early Middle Ages correspond to a deep social and economic change. Currently, the elite is seen as the leader of the economy and the main driver of change but the role of artisans deserves to be reassessed, particularly through its material traces . Pyrotechnologies that have left few written traces, have long been neglected. Until Henning's work , there was no systematic analysis of the archaeological sources. Little attention is still paid to where artisans obtained their resources, the techniques they used, to their networks and to the so... Mehr ...