Early Middle Ages

Spinning weekend

Date
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Organised by
Prehistorisch Dorp (NL)
Country
the Netherlands

Attention to wool and spinning lovers! We are organizing a spinners' weekend on 3 and 4 August. You are welcome these two days to discover everything about the history of spinning wool and flax, but especially to participate. Take your own spinning reel or wheel and join our spinning group to spin the best threads in a beautiful historic environment. We provide wool!

Boso-no-Mura (JP)

Member of EXARC
No

Boso-no-Mura (房総のむら, Bōsō no mura, "Boso Village") is a place that tells of the history and culture of Japan, and of its disappearing heritage. Set in a splendid natural environment, you can enjoy a hands-on experience learning about the changes that have occurred in clothes, food, housing and crafts over the ages from prehistoric times, as well as the traditional lifestyles of the people of the Boso region. Walking around the splendid natural environment of the museum, you can have hands-on experience learning about the changes that have occurred in the clothes, food, housing and crafts of our ancestors from prehistoric and ancient times up to the present.

The Boso-no-Mura complex features the “Fudoki-no-Oka Area” where you can learn about history and nature, and the “Furusato-no-Waza Arts and Crafts Area” which features reproductions of the houses of farmers and merchants.

Conference: In the Middle - Recreating the Middle Ages in Popular Culture

Date
-
Organised by
IEM (PT)
Country
Portugal

Highlighting the continuous dialogue between the Middle Ages and the post-medieval world, In the Middle is an international interdisciplinary conference that seeks to explore the ways, methods and motivations in which the medieval period has been imagined, evoked, re-lived, and refashioned in contemporary popular culture.

Festivalul Antic Getodova III

Festivalul Antic Getodova III
Date
-
Organised by
Asociatia Culturală Geto-Dacii din Moldova (RO)
Country
Romania

The third edition of the GETODAVA Festival, an event of historical reconstruction, with cultural and educational purpose, for all ages. The entry is free!

More than two millenia ago, on these lands, lived the warrior tribes of the Getae/Dacians, which Herodotus described as being ''...the bravest and fairest of all the Thracian tribes''.

Dr Cozette Griffin-Kremer

Member of EXARC since
Country
France
Crafts & Skills
Other

Associate Researcher at the Centre de Recherche Celtique et Bretonne with a doctorate in Celtic Studies (Université de Bretagne Occidental) and an advanced degree in the history of techniques (EHESS, Parsi), I try to combine archival sources, including literature, with hands-on inquiries into tec