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Digitalisering av Riksantikvarieämbetets tidigare utgivning : en betraktelse över ett projekt och ett uppföljande seminarium
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Icelandic church embroideries on flax and hemp linen : local or imported bast fibers?
No full textThe National Museum of Iceland located in Reykjavik houses a rich collection of embroidered church and secular textiles from the late Middle Ages to early modern times. The collection contains objects of cultural and historical significance including altar cloths and valances or wall hangings. The majority are needlework on lérept or literally ‘linen’, a general term referring to tabby woven fabrics made of plant fibers. The collection is unique, not only beause of the age of the textiles and their abundant colorful embroidery with figurative and narrative elements, but also that they are embroidered and not patterned by weaving techniques,which was more common in similar textiles made by local women from other regions of contemporary Scandinavia. Previous research suggests that Icelandic church textiles were made of imported flax fabric rather than being grown and woven locally, also that a lot of the needlework was carried out by local women. In this research selected accessions were analytically investigated with microscope techniques using the “three-stage procedure” to identify the botanical origin of the plant fibers yarns. Our investigation shows that the foundation fabrics were made of either flax or hemp, and that we cannot rule out local production of plantfiber yarns and fabrics
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No full textRecensioner av: Øivind Lunde, Erkebispegården ved Nidarosdomen.Trondheim, 2023. 408 s. ISBN 9788283050554. Poul Otto Nielsen & Finn Ole Sonne Nielsen,The First Farmers on the Island of Bornholm. The Royal Institute of Northern Antiquaries and University press of Southern Denmark. Copenhagen, 2020. 266 s. ISBN 978-87-408-3297-6
Att jaga enhörningar : kvinnor som skrev om arkeologi under 1800-talet
No full textIn handbooks on the history of archaeology the common view is that there were very few female archaeologists during the 19th century. Instead the history of archaeology is a history of great men with great ideas. The most prestigious way to contribute to science and archaeology is to write books presenting these ideas. No woman is said to have written any significant text on archaeology well into the 20th century, when women were allowed to study at universities and pursue a professional career as archaeologists. This view is utterly wrong. There were infact a great number of female authors who wrote advanced texts about archaeology presenting ground-breaking ideas in the 19th century. They masked their texts as travelogues or fiction or wrote about archaeology in genres that we deny significance for the study of the history of archaeology. There may be as many female who wrote about archaeology during the 19th century as men. This calls for a new understanding on how the history of archaeology has been studied as conventions with scant connections to reality
Hertigar i läder och siden : resultaten från en undersökning av tillvarataget material ur Erik och Valdemar Magnussons grav i Uppsala domkyrka
No full textIn this article, a collection of textile fragments kept in the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm is presented for the first time. The objects were found in 1906 in a partially emptied medieval grave close to the main altar in Uppsala Cathedral. Judging from the written sources, this grave originally contained the remains of the dukes Erik and Valdemar Magnusson who died imprisoned at Nyköpingshus Castle in 1318. A donation to their tomb is mentioned in a document from the 1320s. In 1729, the grave was rediscovered and obviously emptied of some of its contents. The material kept in the Swedish History Museum consists of pieces of leather, satin, silk and wool along with several fragments of wood and metal. These objects had apparently been put back into the grave after it was examined in 1729. In 2022 some of the textile and leather fragments were carbon-14 dated to the early 14th century. This time fixing supports the idea that they originate from the ducal grave. The leather was most likely used as a cover for the coffins, while some of the satin pieces may have formed a part of one or two burial cushions that were also decorated with silk tassels. Unfortunately, not enough material is preserved to determine whether the dukes’ corpses were covered with winding sheets or if they wore clothes and shoes. Despite this, the collection of fragments at the Swedish History Museum provides valuable information about the royal burial customs in early 14th century Sweden. Especially the satin cushions with silk tassels may be seen as a significant addition to our knowledge of high medievalmaterial culture
