MERC Papers vol. 1 + vol. 2

A two‑volume set of the Proceedings of the Postgraduate and Early Career Conference in Medieval Archaeology, including:

• Proceedings of the Postgraduate and Early Career Conference in Medieval Archaeology (Prague 2022), edited by Jakub Sawicki and Mária Vargha • Proceedings of the Postgraduate and Early Career Conference in Medieval Archaeology (Wrocław 2024), edited by Jakub Sawicki, Michael Lewis, and Maria Vargha

in one bundle.

Contents vol. 1

Jakub Sawicki, Mária Vargha, Carlo Citter
Introducing Medieval Europe Research Community Papers

Silvia Berrica
From Cities to Villages: the Distribution of Amphorae in the Central Iberian Peninsula – Between Production, Commerce and Society in the Seventh to Ninth Centuries

Nóra Buránszki
Plain bowls from Crac des Chevaliers

Camilla Felicioni, Chiara Mascarello, Ylenia Paciotti
Different approaches to connectivity from the Middle Ages to the Present

Lisa Fenucci
Constructing Late Medieval Heterosexuality Through the Lens of Sexual Badges

Laszlo Ferenczi
Monastic Manors and the Landscape Impact of Cistercian Estate Management: A Landscape Archaeological and Historical Ecological Project on Plasy Abbey

Zana Hoxha
Unification Process of Early Christian Architecture: A Comparative Study between Kosovo and the Roman Empire

Zbigniew Kubiatowski
New Dating of the Ceramic Set of Radzikowo “Gaik” Stronghold

Johan Sandvang Larsen
The Ghosts of Archaeologies Past – How to Track and Understand the Developments in Archaeological Fieldwork Methods

Jakub Jauernig, Barbora Uchytilová
The Painting of a Coat of Arms on Shields as a Dispute Between Painters and Shield-makers

Contents vol. 2

Jakub Sawicki, Michael Lewis, Maria Vargha
Introducing

Weronika Bałdyga
The Natural and Cultural Landscape of Early Medieval Strongholds in the Wierzyca River basin

Matthias Biro Sarrias
The first results of the study of the Alcazar de Bayra: understanding the Nasrid border through its architecture

Letizia Dalle Vedove, Alessandra Coleschi
Exploring the rural landscape of Briatico through its farmhouses: fieldwork in 2023.

Jan Gryz
The Iron Age cemetery of Anundshög (Västmanland, Sweden) as the arena of a power struggle. The evidence of damaged mounds.

Gerard Matser
In the Shadows of Giants. The Forgotten History of Social Interactions in Brittany (8th–10th centuries) through Archaeology

Ghinwa Saba
The Evolution of the Defensive Architecture in Medieval Coastal Syria

Dominika Václavíková
Handicraft production in the forum of ‘Stare mesto’ near Zdar nad Sazavou, Czech Republic

Jana Škrgulja, Petra Nikšić
Material Culture and Group Identity in Southern Pannonia during Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Teodora Mladenović, Maja Kokanović
A Zooarchaeological Insight into Dietary Habits in Medieval Serbia: A Case Study of Gradina – Erčege Site (Southwestern Serbia)

Ana Medina
Exploitation and Consumption of Animals in Sefarad. First Approach to the Archaeozoological Analysis of the Jewish Quarter in Atienza (Guadalajara,
Spain)

Arne Kluge
The high and late medieval pottery from the Augustinerhof excavations in Nuremberg – a glimpse at an ongoing analysis

Andreia Rodrigues
Between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic: foreign ceramics that arrived in the Kingdom of Portugal during the Late Middle Ages

Bernát Rácz
Re-evaluating the Artistic Wealth of High Medieval Private Monasteries in the Great Hungarian Plain

Sylwia Siemianowska
Glass gaming pieces for a board game from Opole-Ostrówek (Silesia, Poland). Was hnefatafl played in the early medieval stronghold?

Henna Hörkkö
Archaeological Textile Fragments in the Light of Costume History: the Case of Archaeological Clothing Fragments from Medieval Turku

Mariusz Kohnke,
The catalogue of the Campo Santo Teutonico Museum by Joseph Wittig (1906)