Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation

Barbara Hausmair is a post-doctoral researcher at the Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz, Germany where she previously held a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie-Fellowship. She gained her Ph.D. from the University of Vienna, Austria and studied at the Universities of Cambridge and Reading, U.K. as a visiting Ph.D. student.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation: An IntroductionBarbara Hausmair, Ben Jervis, Ruth Nugent and Eleanor WilliamsPART I: NETWORKSIntroduction: Rules, Networks, and Different Kinds of SourcesNatascha MehlerChapter 1. Rules, Identity and a Sense of Place in a Medieval Town. The Case of Southampton’s Oak BookBen JervisChapter 2. Meat for the Market. The Butchers’ Guild Rules from 1267 and Urban Archaeology in Tulln, Lower AustriaUte ScholzChapter 3. Rubbish and Regulations in the Middle Ages: A Comparison of Urban and Rural Disposal PracticesGreta CivisChapter 4. How to Plant a Colony in the New World: Rules and Practices in New Sweden and the Seventeenth-Century Delaware ValleyMagdalena NaumPART II: SPACE AND POWERIntroduction: Rules and the Built EnvironmentHarold MytumChapter 5. Embodied Regulations: Searching for Boundaries in the Viking AgeMarianne Hem EriksenChapter 6. What Law Says That There Has to be a Castle? The Castle Landscape of Frodsham, CheshireRachel SwallowChapter 7. Shakespearian Space-Men: Spatial Rules in London’s Early PlayhousesRuth NugentChapter 8. US Army Regulations and Spatial Tactics: The Archaeology of Indulgence Consumption at Fort Yamhill, Oregon, United States, 1856–1866Justin E. EichelbergerChapter 9. Religion in the Asylum: Lunatic Asylum Chapels and Religious Provision in Nineteenth-Century IrelandKatherine FennellyChapter 10. Prison-Issue Artefacts, Documentary Insights and the Negotiated Realities of Political Imprisonment: The Case of Long Kesh/Maze, Northern IrelandLaura McAtackneyPART III: CORPOREALITYIntroduction: Maleficium and Mortuary Archaeology: Rules and Regulations in the Negotiation of IdentitiesDuncan SayerChapter 11. Gone to the Dogs? Negotiating the Human-Animal Boundary in Anglo-Saxon EnglandKristopher PooleChapter 12. Adherence to Islamic Tradition and the Formation of Iberian Islam in Early Medieval Al-AndalusSarah InskipChapter 13. Break a Rule but Save a Soul. Unbaptized Children and Medieval Burial RegulationBarbara HausmairChapter 14. Medieval Monastic Text and the Treatment of the Dead. An Archaeothanatological Perspective on Adherence to the Cluniac CustomariesEleanor WilliamsChapter 15. ‘With as Much Secresy and Delicacy as Possible’: Nineteenth-Century Burial Practices at the London HospitalLouise Fowler and Natasha PowersThe Archaeology of Rules and Regulation: Closing RemarksDuncan H. BrownIndex

“This is a high-quality and far-ranging, …dense and rich, edited collection with subject matter spanning 1500 years of historical archaeological research from Northern, Western and Central Europe together with two North American chapters. As such, it constitutes a great achievement by four academics working collaboratively and drawing upon their very different geographical, chronological, and thematic expertise.” • Archaeological Journal“This wide-ranging collection of substantive case studies does demonstrate the central importance of rules in shaping human behavior, social hierarchies, and change, although I think few archaeologists would question this proposition. One of its main contributions is shining a spotlight on the explicit study of rules and regulations. This is an emphasis that derives from particular social theories, but the volume and its authors offer many new insights that will be of interest to all historical archaeologists.” • Historical Archaeology“The impact of rules on the archaeological record has been the focus of many scholars. This volume provides a solid theorized overview of the theme, offering an extensive biography of previous works.” • Charlotte Newman, English Heritage