Hungary

EmeSe Várispánság (HU)

Member of EXARC
No

EmeSe (European Medieval Settlement) has as main goal to promote the history and customs of the medieval Árpád-age to the wider audience with the help of professionals (archaeologists, historians, etc.) and experimental archaeology and historical reconstruction.

EmeSe (European Medieval Settlement) has as main goal to promote the history and customs of the medieval Árpád-age to the wider audience with the help of professionals (archaeologists, historians, etc.) and experimental archaeology and historical reconstruction...

Book Review: The Art of Prehistoric Textile Making: The Development of Craft Traditions and Clothing in Central Europe by Karina Grömer

Author(s)
Raylene McCalman 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2016/4
Textile research has made significant advances in recent years as new technologies and methods are developed, tested, and applied to the analyses of archaeological textiles. The FWF-Project1, a collaborative research effort involving researchers and artists from institutions in Austria, the Netherlands, and Germany, engaged in ...

Interview: Scientific Tools Applied within Archaeology and Historical Re-enactment: Dr Gábor Szollosy on the Implementation of Experimental Archaeology in Hungary

Author(s)
Márta Pócza 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2014/4
Dr Gábor Szőllősy is an agricultural engineer and councillor museologist at the Museum of Hungarian Agriculture, Budapest. His specialist fields at the Museum are: livestock-farming, livestock registry, carriage vehicles, harnesses, fine arts and the numismatics collection. His PhD thesis was published in 1995...

Interview: Ancient Hoplitikon, "Poorer Cousin" to History Academia or alternative XXI Century Interpretation of History?

Author(s)
Márta Pócza 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2014/3
I liaise with a number of living history groups globally, which all share the same aims and objectives of researching and actively pursuing experimental archaeology related to Ancient Greece and Rome. By networking, we create a foundation of knowledge that meets our framework for understanding the past, whether it be military martial arts, polytheism...

From the Soil to the Iron Product - the Technology of Medieval Iron Smelting

Author(s)
Adam Thiele 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2014/2
2013 EXARC meeting at Csiki Pihenökert (HU)
***Nowadays, the development of technology rushes past the people of the machine-based technical civilisation, therefore they fail to understand the technological wonders that surround them. One of these is the ancient technology of iron smelting...

Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA) and Reenactment - Concept, Problems, Approaches in Our Experience

Author(s)
Gábor Fábián 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2014/2
2013 EXARC meeting at Csiki Pihenökert (HU)
***Throughout the history of re-enactment and in general efforts to revive or recreate the milieu of bygone ages, the military aspect of lifestyle has always enjoyed a special status-one might even say that the military stand point is a predominant part of many re-enactments...

Iron Smelting Camp

Date
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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.