Late Middle Ages

Conference Review: 8th Experimental Archaeology Conference, Oxford 2014

E. Giovanna Fregni (IT)
EXARC Journal Issue 2014/1
Mixed Matters
EAC Conferences
***The conference unofficially began in the Royal Blenheim pub at 6 pm on Thursday evening. Conference staff and attendees filtered in throughout the evening eventually filling the back room. The pub had excellent food and a good variety of local ales. Those who managed to brave the flooding introduced themselves and got to know...

Guédelon (FR)

Member of EXARC
Yes

In Guédelon forest, in a once disused quarry, using medieval technology, woodcutters, quarrymen, carpenters, stonemasons, blacksmiths, tilers, carters and rope makers are building a 13th-century castle from scratch...

In Guédelon forest, in a once disused quarry, woodcutters, quarrymen, carpenters, stonemasons, blacksmiths, tilers, carters and rope makers are building a 13th-century castle from scratch...

Iron Smelting Camp

Date
-
Organised by
Adam Thiele cand. PhD
Country
Hungary

The venue of the camp will be close to Lake Balaton, in Somogyfajsz, where a bloomery workshop with several furnaces from the 10th century was excavated over which a Bloomery Museum was erected. During this camp we will mine local bog iron, burn charcoal in a charcoal pile, build furnaces, smelt iron and forge the extracted iron blooms.

Wiel van der Mark

Member of EXARC since
E-mail address
wielvandermark [at] gmail.com
Country
the Netherlands
Crafts & Skills
Living History
Other

From 1998, Wiel is director of Oculare a Dutch organisation organising cultural and historic events mainly about the history of medicine.
Wiel is also medieval surgeon in Archeological Open Air Museum Archeon since 2003, were he did two medieval medical archaeological reconstructions.

Elpidia Giovanna Fregni PhD

Member of EXARC since
E-mail address
gfregni [at] ancienttools.net
Country
Italy
Crafts & Skills
Ancient Technology
Bronze
Iron
Jewellery

I am an independent researcher with a specialisation in non-ferrous metals with a practical background in jewellery making and metalsmithing. My research ranges from smelting ores and exploring early technology, to replicating metalworking techniques from the Bronze Age through Medieval Period.

Smita S. Geedh PhD

Member of EXARC since
E-mail address
smitgeedh [at] gmail.com
Country
India
Crafts & Skills
Ceramics
Other

Dr Geedh graduated in Arts & Crafts, specialized in Pottery & Ceramics, after finished her M.A. in Archaeology. As a part of her research, she is working in experimental and public archaeology.

People Want Quality and They are Willing to Pay for it

Henrik Zipsane (SE)
EXARC Journal Issue 2013/3
Archaeological Open-Air Museum
The international and European notion of cultural and creative industries has not shown much appreciation of the potential of the cultural sector, especially the heritage sector. This may or may not be fair, but the perspective in the conclusions from KEA studies on cultural economy and creativity has been symptomatic for the European approach (KEA 2006; 2009)...

Conference Review: Live Interpretation, 2013 EXARC’s Meeting in Hungary

Roeland Paardekooper (NL)
EXARC Journal Issue 2013/3
Mixed Matters
In early September 2013, EXARC, in collaboration with Csiki Pihenökert, hosted a meeting in Hungary with the theme Live Interpretation in Open-air Venues. This continued the discussions held one year earlier in Foteviken, Sweden which focused on museum theatre and other forms of live interpretation...