Jette Linaa er museumsinspektør i middelalder-og historisk arkaeologi på Moesgaard Museum. Hun ha... more Jette Linaa er museumsinspektør i middelalder-og historisk arkaeologi på Moesgaard Museum. Hun har skrevet ph.d. om middelalderens kulturforbindelser på baggrund af arkaeologiske fund, og er forfatter til adskillige vaerker om middelalderens og renaessancens sociale faellesskaber belyst gennem forbrug, madkultur og holdning til affald, bl.a. "Urban Consumption-Tracing Urbanity in the Archaeological Record of Aarhus c. AD 800-1800". Hun er leder af forskningsprojektet "URBAN DIASPORA" om migration i senmiddelalder og renaessance, finansieret af Det Frie Forskningsråd.
The seventeenth century saw a mass migration from the countryside to urban centres in Europe. Did... more The seventeenth century saw a mass migration from the countryside to urban centres in Europe. Did migrants of rural origin integrate into their new communities, or did they form a subgroup in the town? This article is based on marriage, baptismal and burial records from the German and Danish Churches in Elsinore (Helsingør) between 1637 and 1660, and on municipal sources, mainly probate inventories and tax records. In the Early Modern period, Elsinore was the second-largest town in Denmark and the seat of the Sound Toll. This article presents a comparative analysis of the fate of rural and urban migrants in the town. The study found that rural migrants, and especially the women among them, faced lives of high mobility, poverty and limited social support, whereas urban migrants established more robust social networks and entered into more advantageous marriages.
Jette Linaa er museumsinspektør i middelalder-og historisk arkaeologi på Moesgaard Museum. Hun ha... more Jette Linaa er museumsinspektør i middelalder-og historisk arkaeologi på Moesgaard Museum. Hun har skrevet ph.d. om middelalderens kulturforbindelser på baggrund af arkaeologiske fund, og er forfatter til adskillige vaerker om middelalderens og renaessancens sociale faellesskaber belyst gennem forbrug, madkultur og holdning til affald, bl.a. "Urban Consumption-Tracing Urbanity in the Archaeological Record of Aarhus c. AD 800-1800". Hun er leder af forskningsprojektet "URBAN DIASPORA" om migration i senmiddelalder og renaessance, finansieret af Det Frie Forskningsråd.
The seventeenth century saw a mass migration from the countryside to urban centres in Europe. Did... more The seventeenth century saw a mass migration from the countryside to urban centres in Europe. Did migrants of rural origin integrate into their new communities, or did they form a subgroup in the town? This article is based on marriage, baptismal and burial records from the German and Danish Churches in Elsinore (Helsingør) between 1637 and 1660, and on municipal sources, mainly probate inventories and tax records. In the Early Modern period, Elsinore was the second-largest town in Denmark and the seat of the Sound Toll. This article presents a comparative analysis of the fate of rural and urban migrants in the town. The study found that rural migrants, and especially the women among them, faced lives of high mobility, poverty and limited social support, whereas urban migrants established more robust social networks and entered into more advantageous marriages.
Urban Diaspora. The rise and fall of diaspora communities in Early Modern Scandinavia. Archaeology, history, science, 2020
This is a book about the rise and fall of diaspora communities, written as the final publication ... more This is a book about the rise and fall of diaspora communities, written as the final publication from the Collective Research Project 2 “Urban Diaspora – Diaspora communities and materiality in Early Modern urban centres”, funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research/Humanities in 2014-2018. The spatial framework is Scandinavia, exemplified by two Danish and one Swedish town: Elsinore, Aalborg and Nya Lödöse, and the chronological framework for the rise and fall is the period between 1473, when the migrant-dominated town of Nya Lödöse was founded, and 1658, when the diaspora neighbourhood in Elsinore was destroyed during the Second Nordic War, never to rise again. This introductory chapter aims to present the context and background for the project, which is firmly rooted in historical archaeology but has been undertaken by a cross-disciplinary research group.
This is a book about urban consumption. Much has already been written about the archaeology of to... more This is a book about urban consumption. Much has already been written about the archaeology of towns based on the town as place with its structures and institutions: A place where fortifications were made, streets laid out, churches constructed and houses built, rebuilt and demolished, all seemingly untouched by human hands. This book has a different agenda: It is written with humans in mind.
A survey of the pottery in Jutland ( a vast region) based on 80 archaeological sites + a large re... more A survey of the pottery in Jutland ( a vast region) based on 80 archaeological sites + a large reference material. This methodological study covers a groundbreaking way of establishing both a valid chronology and an extensive consumption study through a vast region.The book also covers the historical context and the use and meaning of ceramics. Danish Language with extensive summary in English. Iinnovative at the time it was written. A collegue called the study "undetailed" due to the vast area it covers, but that is completely beside the point: Readers are encouraged to remember, that the point of the volume is the establishing of a methodology which includes the introduction of multivariate analysis in Danish medieval archaeology. Written on the background of my ph.d-thesis.
A short version of my MA-thesis. With english summary and lots of figures. Very new-archaeology a... more A short version of my MA-thesis. With english summary and lots of figures. Very new-archaeology and quite typical for the pre-consumtion studies era in Denmark. A fairly good analysis for its time and very typical for Danish ceramiic research at that time- 22.000 sherds from a 400 m2 excavation with structures from the 11th to the 18th century.
Paper given at 48. Internationales Symposium für Keramikforschnung, Mölln september 14. 2015. Cov... more Paper given at 48. Internationales Symposium für Keramikforschnung, Mölln september 14. 2015. Covers the production, export and distribution of black pots in north-western Europe. Part of my ongoing study of black pots (see also monograph 2006).
Indledningsforedrag holdt på Keramikseminar 12. maj 2012. Københavns Museum. Præsentationen. Din... more Indledningsforedrag holdt på Keramikseminar 12. maj 2012. Københavns Museum. Præsentationen. Din vejleder kender den også.
Manuscript for the presentation. In Danish. Meant as an overview/introduction from a very persona... more Manuscript for the presentation. In Danish. Meant as an overview/introduction from a very personal point of view.
Cloth was one of the most important traded items in the pre-modern era. Written records testify t... more Cloth was one of the most important traded items in the pre-modern era. Written records testify to the extraordinary role of this commodity and consumption article. Sources allow us to track textiles from their production via distribution centres to consumption sites and speak of vast varieties of cloth and immense profits. The omnipresence in historical sources, however, is unfortunately rarely matched by archaeological records. After a few hundreds of years, cloth only survives in exceptional conditions. In addition to that, taphonomic processes have reduced most of the once colourful and precious cloth to anonymous small fragments. It is therefore extremely difficult to reconstruct the biography of the cloth in question.
Recent years have seen a swathe of new museums and heritage centres – including the Moesgaard Mus... more Recent years have seen a swathe of new museums and heritage centres – including the Moesgaard Museum, Denmark and the Museum of Montegrotto Terme, Italy – opening and exploring aspects of Europe's past through a rich diversity of both sites and finds. In this session, the third in a series, we want to focus on the role of archaeological museums in shaping the historical context of a nation's identity and how the reflexes around new heritage and greater public engagement are/should be captured in museum spaces. Museum professionals are increasingly experimenting with ways that public debate can be facilitated, to help give people space to consider and reframe their thoughts about a multiplicity of issues. Who is to set the agenda in a time where visitor numbers are crucial to museum survival? How do we navigate between what the public wants to hear, and what we think they need to hear? What stories do we want to tell the public, and how do we want to tell them? For this session we want to encourage a Europe‐wide response from a cross‐section of recent projects. We want to hear about successes, failures and plans for the future to promote an holistic understanding. We also want to consider how the future might look for this critical practice that creates a space where science, curation and citizen engagement interact. We want to explore scale, diversity, purpose, financing, community engagement, local vs tourism and archaeological value through case studies as well as thematic papers. The session is associated with MERC For additional questions please contact Jette Linaa at [email protected] or Mark Hall at [email protected] For registration visit https://eaa.klinkhamergroup.com/eaa2018/ until 15.02.18
Recent years have seen a swathe of new museums and heritage centres – including the Moesgaard Mus... more Recent years have seen a swathe of new museums and heritage centres – including the Moesgaard Museum, Denmark and the Museum of Montegrotto Terme, Italy – opening and exploring aspects of Europe’s past through a rich diversity of both sites and finds. In this session, the third in a series, we want to focus on the role of archaeological museums in shaping the historical context of a nation’s identity and how the reflexes around new heritage and greater public engagement are/should be captured in museum spaces.
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The book is published and will be available for sale at http://da.unipress.dk/bogserier/jysk-ark%C3%A6ologisk-selskabs-skrifter/ very shortly.
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