Urban Life in a Time of Crisis: Enduring Urban Lifeways in Later Medieval England (ENDURE)

危机时期的城市生活：中世纪晚期英格兰持久的城市生活方式（ENDURE）

基本信息

批准号：
EP/X023850/1
负责人：
Ben Jervis
金额：
$ 214.34万
依托单位：
CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2022 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FX023850%2F1
关键词：
Urban Life Time Crisis Enduring

项目摘要

ENDURE capitalises on a critical mass of archaeological data and innovations in archaeological science to ask how urban lifeways were transformed by the 14th-15th century crises. Urban decline, the result of climate change, plague and political unrest has been a key theme in medieval studies. A focus on decline conceals the diverse lived experiences of urban communities. Focussing on the small towns of England, ENDURE asks whether some elements of everyday life persisted, whilst others were changed irreversibly. The resilience of medieval communities is a growing area of study. However, resilience, which focusses on purposeful adaptation to preserve a specific social context, is insufficient to understand continuity in terms of hardship and the ability to withstand, resist or sustain change. An emphasis on endurance creates a new interpretive space to understand lived experiences of medieval crisis. ENDURE applies a multi-scalar methodology to reconstructing diverse urban lifeways. Radiocarbon dating of lipids extracted from pottery will offer an unrivalled level of chronological resolution to assess the short- and long-term consequences of crisis for urban communities. ENDURE conceptualises towns as emergent and fluid assemblages, formed of relations between people, materials, animals and plants. Focussed around three key pillars (production, commerce and domesticity), ENDURE will reconstruct these relations through a multi-scalar methodology which combines big data derived from hundreds of archaeological excavations within medieval small towns, historical data and cutting-edge scientific techniques. Stable isotope analysis of faunal remains and analysis of lipids extracted from pottery will generate high-resolution data pertaining to production (agriculture, food processing), commerce (provisioning) and domesticity (cooking, the urban environment). This integrated conceptual and methodological framework will reveal the diversity of medieval urban experience.

持久利用大量的考古学数据和考古科学创新，询问城市救生道是如何通过14-15世纪的危机转变的。城市衰落是气候变化，瘟疫和政治动荡的结果是中世纪研究的关键主题。对衰落的重点掩盖了城市社区的各种生活经历。 Endure专注于英格兰的小城镇，询问日常生活的某些要素是否持续存在，而另一些人则不可逆转地改变了。中世纪社区的韧性是一个越来越多的研究领域。但是，重点是保存特定社会环境的有目的的适应能力，不足以理解艰辛和承受能力抵抗，抵抗或维持变化的能力。对耐力的强调创造了一个新的解释空间，以了解中世纪危机的生活经历。 Endure应用多量表方法来重建多样化的城市生活道。从陶器中提取的脂质的放射性碳年代将提供无与伦比的时间顺序分辨率，以评估危机对城市社区的短期和长期后果。耐心将城镇视为新兴和流体组合，是人，材料，动物和植物之间的关系。 Endure集中在三个关键支柱（生产，商业和家庭）周围，将通过一种多量表方法来重建这些关系，该方法结合了来自中世纪小城镇中数百个考古发掘的大数据，历史数据和削减边缘科学技术。对动物遗体的稳定同位素分析和从陶器中提取的脂质的分析将产生与生产有关的高分辨率数据（农业，食品加工），商业（供应）和家庭性（烹饪，城市环境）。这个综合的概念和方法论框架将揭示中世纪城市经验的多样性。