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 47
... possession of the monastery founded at Coggeshall in 1140 by the Savignac order , but acquired by the Cistercians in 1148 . The barn shows the early features of passing braces , or parallel rafters , and long straight braces with ...
... possession of the monastery founded at Coggeshall in 1140 by the Savignac order , but acquired by the Cistercians in 1148 . The barn shows the early features of passing braces , or parallel rafters , and long straight braces with ...
Page 74
... possession of it in 1271 , yet it seems to have been built as a private house , so we may dismiss the notion that it is an institutional building of some sort . Vaulted undercrofts , or vestiges of them , occur at Boothby Pagnell ...
... possession of it in 1271 , yet it seems to have been built as a private house , so we may dismiss the notion that it is an institutional building of some sort . Vaulted undercrofts , or vestiges of them , occur at Boothby Pagnell ...
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... possessed or fulfilled more than one of these ) criteria ' . Ottaway ( 1992 : 3 ) proposes a simpler tripartite definition : a relatively dense , large population , a range of economic functions , and a role as an administrative and ...
... possessed or fulfilled more than one of these ) criteria ' . Ottaway ( 1992 : 3 ) proposes a simpler tripartite definition : a relatively dense , large population , a range of economic functions , and a role as an administrative and ...
Contents
the practicalities | 23 |
The postConquest hall | 66 |
The later medieval hall | 89 |
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