Katharina Ulmschneider

D.Phil.; F.S.A.

Senior Research Fellow, Worcester College, Oxford

Keeper of Archives, Institute of Archaeology, Oxford

E-mail: katharina.ulmschneider@worc.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests

History of Archaeology in the late 19th and 20th century as seen through archives

Early Medieval Archaeology of Northwest Europe: the rise of the European economy, markets, towns, coinage, minting, and the development of settlement hierarchies

The impact of metal-detector finds on archaeology, including the discovery of new types of trading places, and developing new methods for interpreting metal-detector finds and sites in the landscape

Current Projects

Co-director of the research project ‘Persecution and survival: the experience of the Jewish refugee Paul Jacobsthal’, based on the archive of the refugee archaeologist Prof. Dr. Paul Jacobsthal at the Institute of Archaeology funded by the Heritage Lottery and the Reva and David Logan Foundation. http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/jacobsthal.html

Material cultures archives in Oxford, funded by the Fell Fund, Oxford

Publications

Books

with T. Pestell (eds.), Markets in Early Medieval Europe, 650-800 (Windgather Press, Macclesfield, 2003)

‘Markets, Minsters, and Metal-Detectors: Middle Saxon Lincolnshire and Hampshire’, British Archaeological Reports 307 (Oxford, 2000)

Articles

with S. Crawford, ‘Paul Jacobsthal’s Early Celtic Art, his anonymous co-author, and National Socialism: new evidence from the archives’, Antiquity, Vol. 85 (2011), issue 327

‘Settlement Hierarchy’, in H. Hamerow et al. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology (Oxford University Press, 2011, in press), pp. 156–171

with S. Crawford, ‘Post-war identity and scholarship: the correspondence of Paul Jacobsthal and Gero von Merhart in the Oxford Jacobsthal archive’, European Journal of Archaeology (2011, in press)

‘Refugees, Nazis, & Archaeology: War-time archives from the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford’, Worcester College Magazine (2011, in press)

with S. Crawford, ‘Paul Jacobsthal: Childhood, art and education in late 19th century Berlin: an autobiographical account’, Childhood in the Past, Volume 4 (2011, in press)

with S. Crawford, ‘Life between the nations – the wartime correspondence of German Refugee archaeologist Paul Jacobsthal’, British Archaeology 115 (2010), 30–33.

‘More Markets, Minsters and Metal-detector finds – Hampshire a Decade on’, in M. Henig and N. Ramsay (eds.): Intersections (Archaeopress, 2010), pp. 87–98.

‘Digging the dirt? British archaeology and women in the early 20th century’, Worcester College Magazine 17 (2009), 15

‘Are we rewriting the economic history of Anglo-Saxon England?’,  in H.-J. Häßler, (Hrsg.), Neue Forschungsergebnisse zur nordwesteuropäischen Frühgeschichte unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der altsächsischen Kultur im heutigen Niedersachsen, Studien zur Sachsenforschung 15 (2005), 517–31.

‘John Thrupp, Anglo-Saxon Antiquarian, 1817–1870’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)

with T. Pestell, ‘Introduction: The study of Early Medieval Markets’ in K. Ulmschneider and T. Pestell (eds.), Markets in Early Medieval Europe 650–800 (Windgather Press, Macclesfield, 2003), pp. 1–10

‘Markets around the Solent’, in K. Ulmschneider and T. Pestell (eds.), Markets in Early Medieval Europe 650–800 (Windgather Press, Macclesfield, 2003), pp. 73–83

‘Central Places and Metal-Detector Finds: What are the English ‘Productive Sites’?’, in B. Hårdt and L. Larsson (eds.), Central Places in the Migration and Merovingian Periods (Uppåkrastudier 6, Lund, 2002), pp. 333–40

‘Settlement, Economy, and the ‘Productive Site’: Middle Saxon Lincolnshire AD 650–870’, Medieval Archaeology 44 (2000), 53–79

‘Burial and Grave-Goods: Interpretations of Change’, European Journal of Archaeology 3.1 (2000), 136–7 (review)

‘History, Archaeology, and the Isle of Wight in the Middle Saxon Period’, Medieval Archaeology 43 (1999), 19–44

In preparation

with T. Pestell, Markets in Early Medieval Europe: Trading and Productive Sites, 650–850 (second revised edition) (Oxford, in preparation)

 

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