Manufacture and use of copper and copper-alloy artefacts in medieval Tuscia
This research seeks to provide a contribution towards our knowledge of copper-alloy artefact manufacture and consumption and its broader socio-economic implications during the Middle Ages in the Italian region of Tuscia (current South Tuscany and North Latium). The sites under investigation are Leopoli-Cencelle and Miranduolo - the first close to Rome, the second close to Siena. These are very similar sites in terms of chronology, incastellamento process, cultural and political influences; moreover, they are both close to relevant mining sites, namely the Tolfa Hills and the Colline Metallifere respectively. However, there are significant differences between these two sites, as they represent the urban/rural dualism that characterised the central Italian Peninsula medieval landscape: Leopoli-Cencelle is a town, while Miranduolo is a castle. The principal aim of the thesis is to shed light on craft skills and trade interests as much as on trends in fashion, social organisation and economics, by investigating non-ferrous metal assemblages, including finished artefacts and fragments as well as metallurgical debris. Everyday life objects, dress accessories, work instruments, and structural and decorative items
Gaudenzi Asinelli, M.
Manufacture and use of copper and copper-alloy artefacts in medieval Tuscia. This research seeks to provide a contribution towards our knowledge of copper-alloy artefact manufacture and consumption and its broader socio-economic implications during the Middle Ages in the Italian region of Tuscia (current South Tuscany and North Latium). The sites under investigation are Leopoli-Cencelle and Miranduolo - the first close to Rome, the second close to Siena. These are very similar sites in terms of chronology, incastellamento process, cultural and political influences; moreover, they are both close to relevant mining sites, namely the Tolfa Hills and the Colline Metallifere respectively. However, there are significant differences between these two sites, as they represent the urban/rural dualism that characterised the central Italian Peninsula medieval landscape: Leopoli-Cencelle is a town, while Miranduolo is a castle. The principal aim of the thesis is to shed light on craft skills and trade interests as much as on trends in fashion, social organisation and economics, by investigating non-ferrous metal assemblages, including finished artefacts and fragments as well as metallurgical debris. Everyday life objects, dress accessories, work instruments, and structural and decorative items
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