Buildings of Medieval Europe. Studies in Social and Landscape Contexts of Medieval Buildings

Buildings of Medieval Europe. Studies in Social and Landscape Contexts of Medieval Buildings
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2018
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 9781785709739

This volume brings together an interesting range of papers discussing medieval buildings across Europe. They provide interesting insights to life in the medieval world in several understudied areas of Europe. The papers range from Croatia and Transylvania in the east, Scandinavia in the north and Britain in the west, providing insights into areas that are rarely discussed by books published in western Europe. There is comprehensive range in size and status of buildings, from the smallest, single-roomed house in Byzantine Serbia and rural homes in central Europe to churches in Sweden and monastic hospitals in England. Buildings of high status and low status are discussed, as well as those of a secular and ecclesiastic nature. Materials and craftspeople are considered through a study of brick makers and their identifying marks. This volume aims to open discussions about medieval buildings beyond simply architectural features and typologies, and furthers the discipline through this process. Buildings can reveal details of the lives of their occupants and therefore enrich our knowledge of life in medieval Europe.

Vernacular Buildings and Urban Social Practice: Wood and People in Early Modern Swedish Society

Vernacular Buildings and Urban Social Practice: Wood and People in Early Modern Swedish Society
Author: Andrine Nilsen
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2021-01-14
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 178969678X

Wooden buildings housed the majority of Swedish urban populations during the early modern era, but many of these buildings have disappeared as the result of fire, demolition, and modernisation. This book reveals the fundamental role played by the wooden house in the formation of urban Sweden and Swedish history.

Ecclesiastical Landscapes in Medieval Europe: an Archaeological Perspective

Ecclesiastical Landscapes in Medieval Europe: an Archaeological Perspective
Author: José Carlos Sánchez-Pardo
Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2020-07-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781789695410

By presenting case studies from across Eastern and Western Medieval Europe, this volume aims to open up a Europe-wide debate on the variety of relations and contexts between ecclesiastical buildings and their surrounding landscapes between the 5th and 15th centuries AD.

Castles and Landscapes

Castles and Landscapes
Author: O. H. Creighton
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd.
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2005
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781904768678

This paperback edition of a book first published in hardback in 2002 is a fascinating and provocative study which looks at castles in a new light, using the theories and methods of landscape studies.

Church Archaeology in Transylvania (ca. 950 to ca. 1450)

Church Archaeology in Transylvania (ca. 950 to ca. 1450)
Author: Daniela Marcu-Istrate
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 540
Release: 2022-09-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 900451614X

Transylvania has some of the most valuable monuments of medieval architecture in Europe: the easternmost churches built in Romanesque style, Cistercian monasteries, Gothic buildings, and fortified churches. This book explores archaeological sources to bring to light the hidden past of these monuments.

Handbook of Medieval Studies

Handbook of Medieval Studies
Author: Albrecht Classen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 2822
Release: 2010-11-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110215586

This interdisciplinary handbook provides extensive information about research in medieval studies and its most important results over the last decades. The handbook is a reference work which enables the readers to quickly and purposely gain insight into the important research discussions and to inform themselves about the current status of research in the field. The handbook consists of four parts. The first, large section offers articles on all of the main disciplines and discussions of the field. The second section presents articles on the key concepts of modern medieval studies and the debates therein. The third section is a lexicon of the most important text genres of the Middle Ages. The fourth section provides an international bio-bibliographical lexicon of the most prominent medievalists in all disciplines. A comprehensive bibliography rounds off the compendium. The result is a reference work which exhaustively documents the current status of research in medieval studies and brings the disciplines and experts of the field together.

Medieval Archaeology

Medieval Archaeology
Author: Chris Gerrard
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2003-10-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134566069

Chris Gerrard looks at the people and excavations that have been important in medieval archaeology and the core theory and methodology used, creating an essential text for all medieval archaeologists.

Late Medieval Lodging Ranges

Late Medieval Lodging Ranges
Author: Sarah Kerr
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2023-10-03
Genre:
ISBN: 1783277572

This book draws on architectural and archaeological analysis to consider the form, function, use and meaning of late medieval lodging ranges. While we know a great deal about most elements of the late medieval great house, we understand very little about their lodging ranges, and even less on their contributions to the lived experience of the household and wider society. Why were lodging ranges built, for example, and how were they used? It is this gap in our knowledge which the present book aims to fill. It draws on archaeological and architectural analysis of lodging ranges to show that they were some of the finest living spaces within the great house, built as accommodation for high-ranking members of the household. Their low-, even single-, occupancy rooms, accessible via individual doors, were innovatory, showing how the idea of privacy developed. The explicit displays of uniformity upon the lodging ranges' symmetrical facades were juxtaposed with variations within. Surviving lodging ranges (including Wingfield Manor, Middleham Castle and Dartington Hall) are examined, alongside the lost example of Caister Castle, demonstrating how lodging ranges simultaneously reflected and shaped medieval life; the author argues that their very form and stones, and their manipulation of space, enabled them to have multi-faceted functions, including the representation of multiple and even conflicting identities.

Daily Life in the World of Charlemagne

Daily Life in the World of Charlemagne
Author: Pierre Riché
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 1978
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780812210965

Detailed account of the common people's daily life in the time of Charlemagne and how politics and military struggle affected them.