Medieval HousingLeicester University Press, 1997 - 230 pages The archaeological study of standing buildings is experiencing a welcome renaissance. This book outlines recent developments in the field and shows how they have contributed to our understanding of medieval domestic dwellings. Evidence from the buildings themselves, from excavation and from documentary sources is combined to provide an outline of the development of building techniques in the Middle Ages, and current knowledge about the housing of the rich, the middling sort and the poor is reviewed. The specific adaptations demanded of domestic dwellings in the growing context of towns are also discussed. |
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Page 23
... building , in their zeal for peg - holes , types of roof trusses , straight joints and so forth , remain woefully ignorant of the documentary side of their field of study and seem to be as indifferent to it as the historians are to ...
... building , in their zeal for peg - holes , types of roof trusses , straight joints and so forth , remain woefully ignorant of the documentary side of their field of study and seem to be as indifferent to it as the historians are to ...
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Jane Grenville. Stone and brick building There can be little doubt that domestic building in stone was comparatively rare in the century and a half after the Conquest . Major structures such as castles , churches and monasteries are ...
Jane Grenville. Stone and brick building There can be little doubt that domestic building in stone was comparatively rare in the century and a half after the Conquest . Major structures such as castles , churches and monasteries are ...
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... Buildings , University of Nottingham Department of Classical and Archaeological Studies Monograph Series III , Nottingham . Le Patourel , H.E.J. ( 1991 ) , “ Rural building in England ' , in E. Miller ( ed . ) , The Agrarian History of ...
... Buildings , University of Nottingham Department of Classical and Archaeological Studies Monograph Series III , Nottingham . Le Patourel , H.E.J. ( 1991 ) , “ Rural building in England ' , in E. Miller ( ed . ) , The Agrarian History of ...
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the practicalities | 23 |
The postConquest hall | 66 |
The later medieval hall | 89 |
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