Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Archaeologica: Recent submissions
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Garnitury okuć rzemieni i inne elementy ozdobne wielkomorawskich mieczy
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)The paper discusses the appearance of the Great Moravian warriors’ swords and focuses on sets of strap and belt fittings used to fasten the swords. It also comments on other elements decorating sword scabbards used in Great ... -
Nowe spojrzenie na miecz z Turu, pow. poddębicki
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-12-30)The Article, The New Look at the Sword from Tur, District Poddębice brings us closer to the issue of construction of typology and chronology of the single-edge sword. Archaeological interpretation of the indicative features ... -
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The Use of Chemical Weapons on the Eastern Front of World War One (1915) and its Material and Discursive Remains – the Challenge and Stimuli for Attentive Travel, Systematizing, Storage, Connecting, in situ Preservation and Making Public Real Virtual and Digital Heritage of Weapons of Mass Destruction
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)The article includes a theoretical and practical proposal for perceiving and treating material and discursive remains of using chemical weapons – wherever they still exist – as stimuli for reflection on weapons of mass ... -
A Few Words About the Ice House of the Konsum Store in the Nineteenth-Century Priest’s Mill Factory and Residential Complex in Łódź
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)The issue of ice houses, both those found among manor and farm buildings and those connected with industrial plants, is a research issue frequently raised in many countries of Western Europe and in the United States. In ... -
Temperature and Humidity in the Base-floors of Three Northern Finnish Churches Containing 17th–19th-century Burials
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)Natural mummification occurs in various favorable conditions. Cold environments have produced mummified human remains in northern Finland. These remains buried under the church floors mummified naturally probably through ... -
The Saint Benedict Cross or the Saint Benedict Medal Based on a Find from Archaeological Research in Gniew (Pomerania Province)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)In 2015, during archaeological research conducted around the church in Gniew (Pomerania Province), a small fragment of a metal plate was found. After it was cleaned as part of restoration it turned out to be a cross. The ... -
Modern Shoe Buckles from Archaeological Research in Gniew and Piaseczno (Pomerania Province, Poland)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)During archaeological research carried out from 2009 to 2016 in the Church of St. Nicholas in Gniew, a set of three metal buckles was found. Then, in 2017, excavations were conducted in crypts of the Church of the Nativity ... -
Open-back Shoes from the Southern Crypt in Piaseczno, Pomerania Province
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)A discussion on modern shoes is limited on account of the scarcity of sources provided by archaeological research. This gap is to a certain extent filled by museum collections and iconography. This is why it is so important ... -
Functional Analysis of Garments in 18th Century Burials from St. Michael’s Crypt in Vienna, Austria
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)The Michaelergruft in Vienna (St. Michael’s crypt), Austria, is located near the imperial palace Vienna and has been used between 1560 and 1784 by the local nobility of the city center in Vienna. The inventory of a large ... -
The Fate of the Remains and Funerary Equipment of Czech Rulers and Their Family Members
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)Prague Castle was the most important burial site of the Czech rulers and their relatives. The graves are located in the Church of the Virgin Mary, in St. George Church and Convent, and, in the greatest numbers in the St. ... -
Rich or Modest – Analysis and Reconstruction of the Appearance of a Child’s Coffin from 1779 from the Church of St. Nicholas in Gniew (Pomerania Province, Poland)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)Research conducted in churches provides more and more information about the funeral culture in the Baroque. The basic elements of a funeral were wooden coffins, in which bodies were buried. They were prepared for the funeral ... -
Research in the Crypts of the Church of Saint Francis of Assisi in Cracow
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)The paper presents the results of archaeological research carried out from 2017 to 2018 in the Church of Saint Francis of Assisi in Cracow, funded by the National Science Centre. The aim of the work undertaken was to locate, ... -
Crypt Burials from the Cloister Church of Riesa (Germany) – Changes of Funerary Customs, Body Treatment, and Attitudes to Death
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)The cloister church of Riesa (Saxony, Germany) contains two burial crypts which were used from the 17th to 19th century AD by local noble families, namely the barons von Felgenhauer, Hanisch/von Odeleben and von Welck. The ... -
Burial Crypts and Vaults in Britain and Ireland: a Biographical Approach
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)The range of post-medieval burial structures found in Britain and Ireland defined by Julian Litten in 1985 are reviewed in the light of more recent discoveries. The degree of variability within each of these – lined burial ... -
Modern Wooden Coffins – A Biography of Things
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)This paper discusses the issue of a biography of a coffin from the perspective of biographical events common to many modern artefacts from the Polish territory. The aim was to identify past and present functions by determining ... -
“…a Gentle Calm and Happy Resurrection” – Theological and Folk-religious Backgrounds of Crypt Burials
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)For years there has been a lively discussion if there did exist a tradition of intentional mummification in Christian Europe, since hundreds of naturally mummified individuals of a social elite have been found preserved ... -
An Attempt to Calculate the Number of Inhabitants in Relation to the Social Dimension in Neo-Babylonian Residential Architecture on the Example of Babylon
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)In the article, I attempt to estimate the number of inhabitants of Neo-Babylonian households based on archaeological data based on the example of Babylon (Neo-Babylonian period: 1100/1000–539 BCE). In order to discover how ... -
‘Historical Craft from the Artisan’s Point of View’. Analysis of the Results of the Survey Conducted Among Craftsmen Specialising in Historical Reconstruction
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The paper presents the results of the survey carried out by the authors of this paper, the subject of which was experimental archaeology. We asked a group of artisans that deal with historical reconstruction a set of ... -
The Right to the City, the Right to Heritage – Material and Non-Material Traces of Scheibler’s ‘New Weaving Mill’ in Łódź
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019-12-30)The paper presents the case of post-industrial space of the New Weaving Mill in Kilińskiego Street in Łódź, which was a part of Karol Scheibler’s empire. We use it to illustrate the tensions between actors of the city life ...