Pottery in the material culture of Early Modern England : a model from the archaeology of Worcester, 1650-1750
The objective of this thesis is to place the pottery used by people in 17th and 18th century Worcester into context, flowing from a desire to see the archaeological study of pottery placed within the wider study of material culture. It develops a model for doing so by addressing both a corpus of pottery drawn from a number of sites in the city and a sample of probate inventories covering the century 1650-1750. This century is of interest in local ceramic studies because it is transitional between a period in which the prime provider of pottery for the whole region was the Malvern industry, and the later period of industrial scale manufacture and distribution in Staffordshire. The thesis begins by reviewing possible theoretical approaches to the study of pottery and adopting a standpoint based on a phenomenological view of material culture as embodied experience, as opposed to the idealist representation of meaning. Since an implication of this standpoint is that the experience of past people encompassed more than the use and possession of pots, the subsequent Chapter explores the physical development of Worcester over the century under review. The next section then embarks on the consideration of 11 groups
Ruffle, Bob
CC Archaeology
Pottery in the material culture of Early Modern England : a model from the archaeology of Worcester, 1650-1750. The objective of this thesis is to place the pottery used by people in 17th and 18th century Worcester into context, flowing from a desire to see the archaeological study of pottery placed within the wider study of material culture. It develops a model for doing so by addressing both a corpus of pottery drawn from a number of sites in the city and a sample of probate inventories covering the century 1650-1750. This century is of interest in local ceramic studies because it is transitional between a period in which the prime provider of pottery for the whole region was the Malvern industry, and the later period of industrial scale manufacture and distribution in Staffordshire. The thesis begins by reviewing possible theoretical approaches to the study of pottery and adopting a standpoint based on a phenomenological view of material culture as embodied experience, as opposed to the idealist representation of meaning. Since an implication of this standpoint is that the experience of past people encompassed more than the use and possession of pots, the subsequent Chapter explores the physical development of Worcester over the century under review. The next section then embarks on the consideration of 11 groups
pottery material_culture early_modern_england model archaeology worcester objective place pottery use people worcester context flow desire see archaeological_study pottery place_within wider study material_culture develops model address corpus pottery drawn number sit city sample probate inventory cover century interest local_ceramic study transitional_period prime provider pottery whole region industry later period industrial scale manufacture distribution staffordshire begin_review possible theoretical_approach study pottery adopt standpoint base phenomenological view material_culture embody_experience oppose idealist representation meaning since implication standpoint experience past_people encompass use possession pot subsequent explore physical development review next_section embark consideration group