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Leszek Gardeła

Born

Poland

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https://gerda-henkel-stiftung.academia.edu/Lesz...

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Nonfiction, History, Art

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Dr habil. Leszek Gardeła is currently leading a project entitled "Slavs in the North: Foreign Elites in Viking Age Scandinavia" funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation.

Leszek Gardeła has a Habiliation from Ludwig-Maximilian's University in Munich (2023), a PhD in archaeology from the Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, UK (2008; supervisors: Professor Neil Price and Professor Peter Jordan / reviewers: Professor Andrew Reynolds and Professor Stefan Brink) and an MA from the Institute of Prehistory of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland (2008). In 2007-2008 he was an Erasmus student at the Universitetet i Oslo where he studied runology, Viking archaeology and Old Norse.

Leszek Gardeła's main research interests include Dr habil. Leszek Gardeła is currently leading a project entitled "Slavs in the North: Foreign Elites in Viking Age Scandinavia" funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation.

Leszek Gardeła has a Habiliation from Ludwig-Maximilian's University in Munich (2023), a PhD in archaeology from the Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, UK (2008; supervisors: Professor Neil Price and Professor Peter Jordan / reviewers: Professor Andrew Reynolds and Professor Stefan Brink) and an MA from the Institute of Prehistory of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland (2008). In 2007-2008 he was an Erasmus student at the Universitetet i Oslo where he studied runology, Viking archaeology and Old Norse.

Leszek Gardeła's main research interests include early medieval mortuary behaviour in Scandinavia and Central Europe, as well as various aspects of symbolism and magic among Viking and Slavic societies. Dr Gardeła also has a keen interest in the role of Scandinavian immigrants in Central and Eastern Europe and is now working on a monograph on Vikings in Poland (the book is under contract with Routledge).

Dr habil. Leszek Gardeła has travelled widely attending conferences and giving guest lectures in Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Poland, Scandinavia, Slovakia and the United Kingdom. To date, he has published over 170 articles in various academic journals and edited collections. He is the author of six monographs - "Scandinavian Amulets in Viking Age Poland" (Institute of Archaeology UR: Rzeszów 2014), "(Magic) Staffs in the Viking Age" (Fassbaender: Vienna 2016), "Bad Death in the Early Middle Ages: Atypical Burials from Poland in a Comparative Perspective" (Institute of Archaeology UR: Rzeszów 2017), "Magia, kobiety i śmierć w świecie wikingów" ("Magic, Women and Death in the Viking Age", Triglav: Szczecin 2019), "Women and Weapons in the Viking World: Amazons of the North" (Oxbow: Oxford & Philadelphia 2021), "The Vikings in Poland" (Routledge: London & New York, forthcoming in 2024) - and editor of several books (with Ł. Ciesielski 2010: “In the margin. Among the omitted topics”, Poznań; with K. Kajkowski 2013: “The head motif in past societies in a comparative perspective”, Bytów; with C. Larrington 2014: Viking Myths and Rituals on the Isle of Man, Nottingham; with K. Kajkowski 2015: "Mirosław Kuźma. Sztuka i archeologia", Bytów; with K. Kajkowski 2015: "Limbs, Bones, and Reopened Graves in Past Societies", Bytów; with K. Kajkowski 2023: "Animals and Animated Objects in Past Societies", Turnhout; with S. Bonding and P. Pentz 2023: "The Norse Sorceress: Mind and Materiality in the Viking World", Oxford & Philadelphia.

In 2020-2023, Dr Leszek Gardeła was Researcher and Senior Researcher at the National Museum of Denmark.

In 2018-2019, Dr Leszek Gardeła was a DAAD P.R.I.M.E/ Marie Curie Fellow at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany and the Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion at the University of Bergen, Norway.

In 2014-2017, Dr Leszek Gardeła led an interdisciplinary project at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Rzeszów, Poland, focusing on "Bad Death in the Early Middle Ages: Atypical Burials from Poland in a Comparative Perspective". The project was funded by the Polish National Science Centre (NCN).

In 2013-2014, Dr Leszek Gardeła was involved in a AHRC-funded project “Languages, Myths and Finds: Translating Norse and Viking Culture for the 21st Century”. Working in collaboration with Dr Carolyne Larrington (Oxford) and a group of British PhD-students, he explored Viking heritage on the Isle of Man, with a particular focus on aspects of myth and ritual. ...more

	Women and Weapons in the Viking World: Amazons of the North 4.33 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Magia, kobiety i śmierć w świecie wikingów 4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Norse Sorceress: Mind and Materiality in the Viking World by Leszek Gardeła (Editor), Sophie Bønding (Editor), Peter Pentz (Editor) 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Viking Myths and Rituals on the Isle of Man by Leszek Gardeła (Editor), Carolyne Larrington (Editor), Aya van Renterghem 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	(Magic) Staffs in the Viking Age 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Animals and Animated Objects in Past Societies. III International Interdisciplinary Meetings - Book of Abstracts by Leszek Gardeła (Editor), Kamil Kajkowski (Editor), Zdzisława Ratajczyk really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Vikings in Poland it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bad Death in the Early Middle Ages. Atypical Burials from Poland in a Comparative Perspective 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Limbs, Bones and Reopened Graves in Past Societies / Kończyny, kości i wtórnie otwarte groby w dawnych kulturach by Leszek Gardeła (Editor), Kamil Kajkowski (Editor), Edeltraud Aspöck really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	JomsvikingaSaga 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars