Bartmann Goes Global - Exploring the Cultural Contexts, Meaning and Use of Bellarmine Jugs Across the Globe
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2023
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Bartmann Goes Global - Exploring the Cultural Contexts, Meaning and Use of Bellarmine Jugs Across the Globe," at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
The most successful of German products of the early modern period, encountered on sites across the world, is the stoneware container known as the Bellarmine or Bartmann jug. The distinctive Bartmann form was produced in huge quantities in Frechen but other centres along the Rhine. Most were specifically made for export, mainly to England or the Netherlands, and as a result of colonial expansion they travelled across the world and occur on early European settlements across the globe or are found on shipwrecks.
In this symposium we want to discuss the relationships between producer, market and consumer on a global scale and the range of cultural contexts in which the bellarmine jugs are found. We are particularly interested in papers from terrestrial and underwater archaeologists that explore the different global contexts these objects have been found in and how different temporal and geographical spheres impacted on their meaning and use.
Other Keywords
Trade •
Ceramics •
Pottery •
Production •
Virginia •
Early Modern Period •
Jamestown •
Bartmann •
Decorated Stoneware •
Vessels Function
Geographic Keywords
England •
Virginia •
Rhine Area (Germany), Netherlands •
Rhineland
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A Bartmann, Bellarmine, Grey Beard or D’Avla jug? The English and their relationship with the Frechen stoneware jug (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Bartmann Goes Global - Exploring the Cultural Contexts, Meaning and Use of Bellarmine Jugs Across the Globe", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The English seemingly had a distinct and unique relationship as consumers of the Frechen stoneware during the early modern period. The widespread trade and use of the vessels centred on London, the Eastern and South-east regions of England in particular led to their...
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The Bewhiskered Germans of Jamestown: Bartmann Jugs from Early Seventeenth-Century Virginia (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Bartmann Goes Global - Exploring the Cultural Contexts, Meaning and Use of Bellarmine Jugs Across the Globe", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Bartmann jugs from England’s first successful transatlantic settlement at Jamestown, Virginia, are an incomparable resource for creating a much needed typochronology of the ware. Archaeological excavations since 1994 on the site of James Fort, Virginia, have produced...
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Gifting Vessels Maintain The Friendship – Thoughts About Pictorial Messages On Rhenish Bartmann Jugs (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Bartmann Goes Global - Exploring the Cultural Contexts, Meaning and Use of Bellarmine Jugs Across the Globe", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Rhenish Bartmann jugs were a bestseller in European early modern times. Besides the iconic bearded men, these jugs displayed a wide variety of typical pictures, the earliest of them based on the work of the so-called „German Littlemasters“ like Virgel Solis (1515 –...
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The Many Face(t)s Of the Bartmann Jug (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Bartmann Goes Global - Exploring the Cultural Contexts, Meaning and Use of Bellarmine Jugs Across the Globe", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Due to its high production numbers and widespread distribution, many scholars who study early modern ceramics are familiar with the Bartmann Jug in one way or another. Nevertheless, it remains a phenomenon that is difficult to grasp: depending on place and time, the...