IX Ruralia: Hierarchies in rural settlements (26 septiembre - 2 octubre 2011)

RURALIA IX
Hierarchien in ländlichen Siedlungen
Hierarchies in rural settlements
Des hiérarchies dans l´habitat rural

Götzis (Austria) 26 September - 2 October 2011


RURALIA
The Jean-Marie Pesez Conferences on Medieval Rural Archaeology

Ruralia is an international association for the archaeology of medieval settlement and rural life. It provides a colloquium of current problems in rural archaeology from most participating European countries to strengthen the exchange of knowledge in, and the development of, archaeologically comparable studies, and to make archaeological results available to other disciplines. The time-range of Ruralia covers the centuries before and after the Early and High Medieval periods as well, namely the period from ca. 500-1700 AD. The key activity of the RURALIA association is a conference held every two years in one of the participating countries. The conference languages are English, French and German. The co-ordinating body of the RURALIA association is the RURALIA COMMITTEE, made up of representatives of each of the participating countries, and led by the president together with the executive committee. The association's first president was Jean-Marie Pesez (1929-1998), whose name the conference series now bears.

PROGRAME OF THE CONFERENCE

Monday, 26th September

Arrival of participants and registration during the afternoon

19.00 Dinner

Tuesday, 27th September

9.00-9.30
Haio Zimmermann & Claudia Theune
Welcome and introduction

chair: Claudia Theune
9.30-10.00
Paolo de Vingo The hierarchy of power in early medieval villages in central Southern Piedmont

10.00-10.30
Jorge A. Eiora Rodríguez Hierarchies in the rural settlements of South Eastern al-Andalus

break, opening of poster session

chair: Haio Zimmermann
11.00-11.30
Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo Hierarchies in early medieval settlements in the North of Spain

11.30-12.00
Édith Peytremann Identifier les résidences des élites au sein des habitats ruraux du VIe au XIe siècle dans la moitié nord de la France

lunch

chair: Mark Gardiner
14.00-14.30
Bert Groenewoudt Private and shared water facilities in rural settlements and small towns. Archaeological and historical evidence from the Netherlands regarding the medieval and post-medieval period

14.30-15.00
Jan van Doesburg The plough and the sword: the role of castles in medieval rural society in the Netherlands

15.00-15.30
Michel Lascaris Gräben als strukturierende Elemente innerhalb hochmittelalterlicher Dörfer im Süden der Niederlande (1050-1250)

break

chair: Hans Wilhelm Heine
16.00-16.30
Rainer Schreg Allmende, Genossenschaft und Gemeinde - archäologische Aspekte zu einer aktuellen

Diskussion (The archaeology of Medieval Land Property)

16.30-17.00
Claus Kropp & Thomas Meier Historical models in archaeological contexts: identifying Carolingian manors in rural
settlements

17.00-17.30
Stefan Krabath & Sonja König Herrschaft im ländlichen Raum Mitteldeutschlands. Mittelalterliche Siedlungs-strukturen geprägt durch Repräsentation, Fortifikation oder wirtschaftliche Aspekte

17.30-18.00
Heiko Steuer Siedlungen im südlichen Schwarzwald: Burg und Bergbau

break

19.00
Evening lecture
Matthias Moosbrugger Controlling the periphery in medieval Vorarlberg. The development of structures of power from an ideology of settlement

20.00
Dinner

Wednesday, 28th September
9.30-18.00
Excursion to the valley of Montafon, Vorarlberg; supervisors Andreas Rudigier (Vorarlberger Landesmuseum) and Harald Rhomberg (Stadtarchiv Dornbirn)

19.00
Dinner at Götzis and meeting of the RURALIA committee

Thursday, 29th September

chair: Michael Schmaedecke
8.30-9.00
Heinrich Sfiewe Hallenhäuser als Herrenhäuser

9.00-9.30
Benno Furrer Auch in der Wiege der Demokratie waren nicht alle gleich. Hierarchien in Dorf-schaften der Schweizer Alpen

9.30-10.00
Sabine Felgenhauer Die Präsenz von Herrschaft im Dorf anhand von Beispielen aus Ostösterreich

10.00-10.30
Herbert Knittler molendiunum & villa. Überlegungen zu Mühlenstandorten im nördlichen Nieder-österreich vom 13. bis 17. Jahrhundert

10.30-11.00
Jan Klápště & Tomáš Klir Socio-economic structure of rural settlements in medieval Bohemia - revisited

break

chair: Eva Svensson
11.30-12.00
Miklós Takács Settlement and hierarchy in the Early Medieval Carpathian Basin - Traces of many different models connected with even more unsolved problems

12.00-12.30
Csilla Zatykó Appearance of social hierarchy in village structures

12.30-13.00
Zoltán Soos Manor house, church and society. The case study of three settlements in 14th/15th century Transylvania

lunch

14.30-21.00
Excursion to Vaduz (Liechtenstein), visit of the “Liechtensteinisches Landesmuseum” with lecture “Archäologie im Alpenrheintal” (Marfin Schindler) and to Werdenberg (Switzerland), visit of the town and castle (Peter Alberfin, Peter Semadin, Ursula Wyssen); reception at Werdenberg castle; supervisor Michael Schmaedecke

21.00
Dinner at Götzis

Friday, 30th September

chair: Jan Klápště
9.00-9.30
Sergey Chernov & Ekaterina Ershova em>International colonisation in Russia during the 13th and 14th centuries: three villages of the pre-manorial period

9.30-10.00
Nikolaj Makarov Archaeological identification of social elite at the rural sites of the Suzdal region, North-Eastern Rus

10.00-10.30
Sergey Zakharov Rural settlements of Northern Rus´periphery: hierarchy and artefact collections

break

chair: Niall Brady
11.00-11.30
Linda Shine & Terry Barry Granny castle and its dependent manors: a case study of late medieval manorial organization

11.30-12.00
James Bond The hierarchy of medieval settlements in West Somerset

12.00-12.30
John Hines & Alice Forward Cosmeston, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales: multiple narratives of rural settlement and power

12.30-13.00
Jill Campbell Exterior design principles in late-medieval manor houses, located in, or near, English rural settlements

lunch

chair: Ingvild Øye
14.30-15.00
Mette Svart Krisfiansen The medieval farm in Denmark – a study in size and morphology

15.00-15.30
Torun Zachrisson Property and honour - settlement change in Middle Sweden 200-1000

15.30-16.00
Anders Håkonsson Hierarchies in rural medieval settlements in Southern Sweden

16.00-16.30
Frode Iversen Postholes in social contexts – the case of Vestfold, eastern Norway

break

chair: Natascha Mehler
17.00-17.30
Frans-Arne Stylegar Medieval settlements in SW and W Norway – aspects of social variation

17.30-18.00
Vibeke Vandrup Martens The magnate farm of Åker

18.00-18.30
Mogens Skanning Høegsberg Social hierarchies in Norse Greenland

18.30
Summary (Jes Martens) and closing words (Haio Zimmermann)

break

19.30
Conference dinner by invitation of the governor of Vorarlberg Herbert Sausgruber and of the market town of Götzis (mayor Werner Huber)

Saturday, 1st October
8.00-18.00
Optional excursion to the Lake Constance, Reichenau, St. Gallen; supervisor Heiko Steuer

19.00
Dinner at Götzis

Sunday, 2nd October

9.00-20.00
Optional excursion to the Swiss open-air museum of Ballenberg; supervisor Michael Schmaedecke

20.00
Dinner at Götzis

Monday, 3rd October
End of conference and departure of participants


Organized by the national representatives of Austria (Sabine Felgenhauer, Claudia Theune, both Vienna), Germany (Heiko Steuer, Freiburg i. Br.) and Switzerland (Michael Schmaedecke, Liestal), with additional support of the Universities of Vienna and Freiburg and Archäologie Baselland.

Venue: Bildungshaus St. Arbogast, Montfortstraße 88, A-6840 Götzis, Tel. 0043 5523 625010, mail:
arbogast@kath-kirche-vorarlberg.at
Cover illustration: reconstruction of the medieval village and manor at Hard, Lower Austria (© Sabine Felgenhauer).

The RURALIA committee

Haio Zimmermann (President and national representative Germany)
Alan Aberg (Honorary President)
Heiko Steuer (Vicepresident and national representative Germany)
Eva Svensson (Vicepresident)
Jan Klápště (Vicepresident and Ruralia editor)
Jean-Michel Poisson (Vicepresident)
Miklós Takács (Secretary)
Sabine Felgenhauer & Claudia Theune (national representatives Austria)
Philippe Mignot (national representative Belgium)
Tomáš Klir (national representative Czech Republic)
Mette Svart Kristiansen (national representative Denmark)
Reem Alshqour (national representative Eastern-Mediterranean and Latin East)
Jouni Taivainen (national representative Finland)
Jean-Michel Poisson (national representative France)
Christiane Bis-Worch (national representative Luxembourg)
Mark Gardiner (national representative Great Britain)
András Pálóczi-Horváth & Miklós Takács (national representatives Hungary)
Niall Brady (national representative Ireland)
Ingvild Øye (national representative Norway)
Irina Zaytseva & Nikolaj Makarov (national representatives Russia)
Matej Ruttkay (national representative Slovakia)
Miklós Takács (national representative South-Eastern Europe)
Jorge A. Eiroa Rodríguez (national representative Spain)
Eva Svensson (national representative Sweden)
Michael Schmaedecke (national representative Switzerland)
Jan van Doesburg (national representative The Netherlands)
André Bazzana (national representative Italy, Portugal, Maghreb)