Leszek Gardeła
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1419040 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Leszek Gardeła |
| NOMBRES | Leszek |
| APELLIDO | Gardeła |
| FIRMA | GARDEŁA L |
| AFILIACIONES | National Museum of Denmark |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2913-4718 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1970 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Revisiting the ‘Valkyries’
This paper offers an in-depth exploration of a group of small Viking Age figurines commonly referred to as ‘valkyries’ in Viking and Old Norse scholarship. After presenting an overview of the long research history pertaining to these finds and their varying definitions, this study re-analyses their various formal and stylistic features and proposes a new typological system based on a comprehensive investigation of the current find corpus. This is…
Miniature Spears in the Viking Age
The spear is doubtlessly one of the most iconic weapons of the Viking Age. In addition to its numerous applications in armed conflict, where it was used by foot- and horseback warriors, the spear served as a potent emblem of power and social prominence. Furthermore, archaeological discoveries of spears in ritual contexts demonstrate unequivocally that these weapons played important roles in pre-Christian religious practice, in some instances perh…
Miniature Swords in the Viking Age
Viking Age Scandinavians manufactured an impressive array of miniature objects that could be worn on the body as pendants, clothing appliques or pins. Many of these items resembled full-sized weapons commonly used by warriors in Northern Europe and beyond. This article sets out to investigate the complete corpus of so-called miniature swords from the ninth and tenth centuries typically made of copper alloy and silver. The majority of miniature sw…
Uncoiling the Serpent
This paper examines the corpus of rare Viking-Age miniature objects in the form of coiled snakes. Artefacts of this kind are made of silver, copper-alloy, gold, jet, and wood, and are discovered in graves, hoards, settlements, and as stray finds. In funerary contexts, they are typically found in connection with women, often buried with various ritual paraphernalia strongly suggesting that their owners had an important role to play in pre-Christia…
Slavs and Snakes
This article offers a new perspective on a diverse corpus of high-status Western Slavic objects from the domain of the Piast dynasty in Poland, dated between the tenth and eleventh centuries ad . It is proposed that the lavish zoomorphic decorations, often depicting snakes, found on jewellery, weapons, and equestrian equipment reflected Western Slavic pre-Christian religious ideas and served as material markers of elite identity. The results of t…
Vikings Reborn
Vikings ReboRn:The oRigins and deVelopmenT of
Untimely death
This paper examines the notion of infant and child burials in early and late medieval Poland which differed significantly from the normative funerary behaviour. Particular attention is devoted to the so-called 'atypical' or 'deviant' inhumation graves that contained allegedly apotropaic objects or stones placed directly on the deceased as well as the peculiar burials of infants in ceramic vessels. In addition to discussing archaeological material…
Vampires, criminals or slaves? Reinterpreting 'deviant burials' in early medieval Poland
Unusual funerary behaviour is now an exciting area of research in Central and Western European archaeology. In Poland, since the first half of the twentieth century, finds of atypical or deviant burials have been almost exclusively interpreted as evidence for so-called 'anti-vampire' practices, intended to prevent the dead from rising, haunting and hurting the living. In the last decade or so, new attempts have been made, especially in the UK, to…
What the Vikings did for fun? Sports and pastimes in medieval northern Europe
Although the Viking Age has been studied for many years and from diverse interdisciplinary perspectives, still very little attention is given to the various pastimes of the Norsemen. This article seeks to explore what the Vikings did for ‘fun’ both inside and outside their homes and in different regions in their diaspora. Attention is paid to games and pastimes of both children and adults and these matters are examined in the context of textual a…
Into Viking Minds
Bodziec Ostrogi Z Lub Niewic. Słowiańska Kul Tura Elitarna W Za Chodniej Części Państwa Piastów
This paper focuses on a copper-alloy goad discovered in 2017 in Lubniewice in Lubuskie Voivodeship, Poland. An interdisciplinary analysis has shown that the goad was originally part ofa lavishly decorated copper-alloy spur representing a type known from high-status West Slavic graves (e.g. Lutomiersk, Ciepłe) and settlement sites. Because objects of this kind are made of costly material, and because expert skills were required to produce them, it…
‘Warrior-women’ in Viking Age Scandinavia? A preliminary archaeological study
Vampires, criminals or slaves? Reinterpreting 'deviant burials' in early medieval Poland
Unusual funerary behaviour is now an exciting area of research in Central and Western European archaeology. In Poland, since the first half of the twentieth century, finds of atypical or deviant burials have been almost exclusively interpreted as evidence for so-called 'anti-vampire' practices, intended to prevent the dead from rising, haunting and hurting the living. In the last decade or so, new attempts have been made, especially in the UK, to…
Untimely death
This paper examines the notion of infant and child burials in early and late medieval Poland which differed significantly from the normative funerary behaviour. Particular attention is devoted to the so-called 'atypical' or 'deviant' inhumation graves that contained allegedly apotropaic objects or stones placed directly on the deceased as well as the peculiar burials of infants in ceramic vessels. In addition to discussing archaeological material…
What the Vikings did for fun? Sports and pastimes in medieval northern Europe
Although the Viking Age has been studied for many years and from diverse interdisciplinary perspectives, still very little attention is given to the various pastimes of the Norsemen. This article seeks to explore what the Vikings did for ‘fun’ both inside and outside their homes and in different regions in their diaspora. Attention is paid to games and pastimes of both children and adults and these matters are examined in the context of textual a…
Revisiting the ‘Valkyries’
This paper offers an in-depth exploration of a group of small Viking Age figurines commonly referred to as ‘valkyries’ in Viking and Old Norse scholarship. After presenting an overview of the long research history pertaining to these finds and their varying definitions, this study re-analyses their various formal and stylistic features and proposes a new typological system based on a comprehensive investigation of the current find corpus. This is…
Slavs and Snakes
This article offers a new perspective on a diverse corpus of high-status Western Slavic objects from the domain of the Piast dynasty in Poland, dated between the tenth and eleventh centuries ad . It is proposed that the lavish zoomorphic decorations, often depicting snakes, found on jewellery, weapons, and equestrian equipment reflected Western Slavic pre-Christian religious ideas and served as material markers of elite identity. The results of t…
Bodziec Ostrogi Z Lub Niewic. Słowiańska Kul Tura Elitarna W Za Chodniej Części Państwa Piastów
This paper focuses on a copper-alloy goad discovered in 2017 in Lubniewice in Lubuskie Voivodeship, Poland. An interdisciplinary analysis has shown that the goad was originally part ofa lavishly decorated copper-alloy spur representing a type known from high-status West Slavic graves (e.g. Lutomiersk, Ciepłe) and settlement sites. Because objects of this kind are made of costly material, and because expert skills were required to produce them, it…
Into Viking Minds
What the Vikings did for fun? Sports and pastimes in medieval northern Europe
Although the Viking Age has been studied for many years and from diverse interdisciplinary perspectives, still very little attention is given to the various pastimes of the Norsemen. This article seeks to explore what the Vikings did for ‘fun’ both inside and outside their homes and in different regions in their diaspora. Attention is paid to games and pastimes of both children and adults and these matters are examined in the context of textual a…
Untimely death
This paper examines the notion of infant and child burials in early and late medieval Poland which differed significantly from the normative funerary behaviour. Particular attention is devoted to the so-called 'atypical' or 'deviant' inhumation graves that contained allegedly apotropaic objects or stones placed directly on the deceased as well as the peculiar burials of infants in ceramic vessels. In addition to discussing archaeological material…
Vampires, criminals or slaves? Reinterpreting 'deviant burials' in early medieval Poland
Unusual funerary behaviour is now an exciting area of research in Central and Western European archaeology. In Poland, since the first half of the twentieth century, finds of atypical or deviant burials have been almost exclusively interpreted as evidence for so-called 'anti-vampire' practices, intended to prevent the dead from rising, haunting and hurting the living. In the last decade or so, new attempts have been made, especially in the UK, to…
Vikings Reborn
Vikings ReboRn:The oRigins and deVelopmenT of
Uncoiling the Serpent
This paper examines the corpus of rare Viking-Age miniature objects in the form of coiled snakes. Artefacts of this kind are made of silver, copper-alloy, gold, jet, and wood, and are discovered in graves, hoards, settlements, and as stray finds. In funerary contexts, they are typically found in connection with women, often buried with various ritual paraphernalia strongly suggesting that their owners had an important role to play in pre-Christia…
Slavs and Snakes
This article offers a new perspective on a diverse corpus of high-status Western Slavic objects from the domain of the Piast dynasty in Poland, dated between the tenth and eleventh centuries ad . It is proposed that the lavish zoomorphic decorations, often depicting snakes, found on jewellery, weapons, and equestrian equipment reflected Western Slavic pre-Christian religious ideas and served as material markers of elite identity. The results of t…
Miniature Swords in the Viking Age
Viking Age Scandinavians manufactured an impressive array of miniature objects that could be worn on the body as pendants, clothing appliques or pins. Many of these items resembled full-sized weapons commonly used by warriors in Northern Europe and beyond. This article sets out to investigate the complete corpus of so-called miniature swords from the ninth and tenth centuries typically made of copper alloy and silver. The majority of miniature sw…
Revisiting the ‘Valkyries’
This paper offers an in-depth exploration of a group of small Viking Age figurines commonly referred to as ‘valkyries’ in Viking and Old Norse scholarship. After presenting an overview of the long research history pertaining to these finds and their varying definitions, this study re-analyses their various formal and stylistic features and proposes a new typological system based on a comprehensive investigation of the current find corpus. This is…
Miniature Spears in the Viking Age
The spear is doubtlessly one of the most iconic weapons of the Viking Age. In addition to its numerous applications in armed conflict, where it was used by foot- and horseback warriors, the spear served as a potent emblem of power and social prominence. Furthermore, archaeological discoveries of spears in ritual contexts demonstrate unequivocally that these weapons played important roles in pre-Christian religious practice, in some instances perh…
‘Warrior-women’ in Viking Age Scandinavia? A preliminary archaeological study
Historical and Archaeological Studies (11 obras) · History (11 obras) · Archaeology (8 obras) · History (8 obras) · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies (7 obras) · Ancient history (6 obras) · Art (6 obras) · Viking Age (5 obras) · Geography (4 obras) · Linguistics and language evolution (4 obras)