Tradition et innovation dans la poterie du bas Moyen Âge en Pologne. Esquisse du problème

Within the very diversified range of early medieval pottery in Poland, between the mid thirteenth and the mid sixteenth centuries, the author attempts to identify the archaisms and innovations in manufacture techniques, decoration and use, and he putsforward general guidelines for research.L'auteur s'efforce d'identifier, à l'intérieur de l'ensemble très diversifié que constitue la céramique polonaise du bas Moyen Age, entre le milieu du XIIIe et le milieu du xvic siècle, les archaïsmes et les innovations dans les techniques de fabrication, les formes, les décors, les modes d'utilisation, et propose des orientations de recherche.Kruppé Jerzy. Tradition et innovation dans la poterie du bas Moyen Âge en Pologne. Esquisse du problème. In: Archéologie médiévale, tome 19, 1989. pp. 209-213

Biała Góra: the forgotten colony in the Medieval Pomeranian-Prussian borderlands

Biała Góra 3 is a small settlement founded in the late twelfth or early thirteenth century AD in the disputed Christian borderlands of Northern Europe. The incorporation of Pomerania into the Polish state in the tenth century was followed by a process of colonisation across the lower Vistula valley, which then stalled before resuming in the thirteenth century under the Teutonic Order. Biała Góra 3 is unusual in falling between the two expansionist phases and provides detailed insight into the ethnicity and economy of this borderland community. Pottery and metalwork show strong links with both Pomeranian and German colonists, and caches of bricks and roof tiles indicate durable buildings of the kind associated with the monastic and military orders. Evidence for the presence of merchants suggests Biała Góra 3 was one of many outposts in the commercial network that shadowed the Crusades