Yannick Signer

Illustrations of four pottery vessels (somewhat light-bulb shaped), five potsherds, and one photograph of a circular piece of pottery (a lid).

NEW Ceramic vessels from Early Modern Slovenia, used in the production of mercury.
Examination of the pottery finds mercury production matched how it was described in Agricola's De re metallica, published in 1556, shedding light on this early industry.

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Farmers’ trade and markets @ Sidestone Press This volume brings together a series of case studies on the social and economic interaction and organisation in the medieval and early modern European countryside. In particular, it focuses on rural a...

The book includes further papers on rural markets, fairs and trade from across Europe and is really worth a read!

You can find it here: www.sidestone.com/books/farmer...

In my paper, I explore how we can use ceramic data to investigate the role of medieval weekly markets and annual fairs in the distribution of pottery. This is largely based on some of my PhD research on the production and use of medieval pottery in the Vale of Pickering (Yorkshire).

"This little potter went to market" is now online!

Excited to share that my peer-reviewed contribution to "Farmers’ trade and markets: Social and economic interaction in the medieval and early modern European countryside" is now available!

Find it here: eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/23...