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- Title
Konferencja naukowa “Homo fabricator. Wytworczosc w Polsce sredniowiecznej i nowozytnej,” Warszawa, 8-9 listopada, 2007 r.
- Authors
Bis, Magdalena; Bis, Wojciech
- Abstract
This article is a proceeding report from the conference, “Homo fabricator: Manufacturing in Poland, Medieval and Modern,” which took place in Warsaw, Poland, on 8-9 November, 2007--the ninth such gathering organized under the auspices of the University of Warsaw’s Center of Medieval and Modern Archeology. Over 70 researchers met at the session (which included attendees from Latvia) and 15 papers were presented. The report traces the opening of the conference and summarizes the presentations of the papers, all of which focused upon manufacturing in Poland in the medieval and modern period as based upon archeological evidence, museum artifacts, architecture, written sources, and iconography. Presentations focused upon subjects as: metal smiths/guilds and medieval arms/armor manufacture; medieval and modern wooden weapons (types) and their production; the casting of canons in the 15th century for the Malbork castle; techniques for casting lead and silver in the early medieval period as based on findings in Dabrowa Gornicza; the construction and function of Krakow’s medieval “Great Scale” (Wielka Waga) and its role in metal-crafting/casting of lead, silver, copper; ceramics manufacture in Pomerania-Gdansk in the 15th century; the production and trade of wax in Kowno in the first half of the 16th century; the brewing of beer in the 13th through 14th centuries; shoes and shoe-making in Warsaw in the 14th through 17th centuries; the artistry of leather goods in the late medieval period; lay and religious architecture in medieval Silesia; stonework/masonry in the area of Klodzko during the Renaissance; and the re-use of cast-off wood products in roads, retention walls, etc., in the vicinity of medieval Bytom.
- Subjects
WARSAW (Poland); POLAND; MIDDLE Ages; HISTORY of material culture; HISTORY of industries; SOCIAL history; CONFERENCES &; conventions
- Publication
Quarterly of the History of Material Culture / Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej, 2008, Vol 56, Issue 2, p256
- ISSN
0023-5881
- Publication type
Proceeding