Author: Sarah Kerr Publisher: Boydell & Brewer ISBN: 1783277572 Category : Languages : en Pages : 279
Book Description
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.
Author: Göran Tagesson Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1789695821 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 190
Book Description
This volume examines how people have been making, using and transforming buildings and built environments, and how buildings have been perceived, from the Byzantine period to modern times. It also considers a diversity of built constructions – including dwellings and public buildings, sheds and manor houses, and secular and sacral structures.
Author: Robert Liddiard Publisher: Boydell & Brewer ISBN: 1783270330 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 445
Book Description
A collection of the most significant articles in castle studies, with contributions from scholars in history, archaeology, historic buildings and landscape archaeology.
Author: Anthony Emery Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9781139449199 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 756
Book Description
This is the third volume of Anthony Emery's magisterial survey, Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300–1500, first published in 2006. Across the three volumes Emery has examined afresh and re-assessed over 750 houses, the first comprehensive review of the subject for 150 years. Covered are the full range of leading homes, from royal and episcopal palaces to manor houses, as well as community buildings such as academic colleges, monastic granges and secular colleges of canons. This volume surveys Southern England and is divided into three regions, each of which includes a separate historical and architectural introduction as well as thematic essays prompted by key buildings. The text is complemented throughout by a wide range of plans and diagrams and a wealth of photographs showing the present condition of almost every house discussed. This is an essential source for anyone interested in the history, architecture and culture of medieval England and Wales.
Author: Martin Heale Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198702531 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 471
Book Description
Election and selection -- Abbots and priors in their community -- Abbots and priors as administrators -- Living standards and display -- Abbots and priors in public life -- The external relations and reputation of the late medieval superior -- The early sixteenth century -- Dissolution, opposition, accommodation -- Epilogue : the afterlives of abbots and priors in Reformation England
Author: Lena Cowen Orlin Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199226253 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 386
Book Description
Lena Orlin paints a dense picture of everyday life in Renaissance England, with an emphasis on personal privacy, the built environment, and the life story of a remarkable undiscovered woman - merchant's wife and mother of four, Alice Barnham - with a central role in some of the most important untold stories of sixteenth-century women.
Author: Michael Thompson Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429834918 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 207
Book Description
First published in 1998, this book describes the surviving medieval remains there and the far more numerous manor houses and castles owned by the bishops, as well as their London houses. Apart from royal residences these are far the largest group of medieval domestic buildings of a single type that we have. The author describes how these buildings relate to the way of life of the bishops in relation to their duties and their income and how in particular the dramatic social changes of the later middle ages influenced their form. The work of the great bishop castle-builders of the 12th century is discussed, as are the general history of the medieval house with its early influence from the Continent, the changes in style of hall and chamber (still controversial) and its climax in the great courtyard houses of Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop of York. The book includes over a hundred plans, sections and photographs of the surviving parts of bishops’ residences, with a survey of 1647 of the Archbishop’s palace at Canterbury before demolition.
Author: Sarah Kerr
Author: Sarah Kerr
Author: Göran Tagesson
Author: Anthony Emery
Author: Robert Liddiard
Author: Anthony Emery
Author: Martin Heale
Author: Lena Cowen Orlin
Author: Michael Thompson
Author: Martin Garrett