Well, my research is going poorly. What research I hear you ask? Well, short version I want to cycle to the production sites of medieval Colognes trade goods…
The first trade goods were Rhenish Stoneware goods. And it went quite well, apart from a few museums being closed for renovations.
Cool, I put the missing museums on a list and contemplated my next coup.
I chose harnesses. Why, I hear you ask!
Easy, in my collection of digitised books, and there’ll be a post about that later, the making and the makers of harnesses are well attested.
Turning this into actually visitabel locations remains elusive.
It turns out, I was lucky with stoneware. In the mid 19th century stoneware was first discovered by collectors and the systematised by scholars. And the books have been digitised and are easily accessible.
#history #geschichte #historycycle
