Buildings of medieval Europe : studies in social and landscape contexts of medieval buildings /
[edited by] Duncan Berryman and Sarah Kerr.
- vi, 155 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Formerly CIP.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Duncan Berry and Sarah Kerr -- A key, an axe and a gridiron: medieval Finnish brickmakers' marks as symbols of identity / Ilari Aalto -- The medieval and early post-medieval weighing houses at Gammel Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark / Stuart Whatley -- Medieval roof trusses in the Swedish landscape of Västergötland / Robin Gullbrandsson -- The medieval hospitals of England: structuring charity and faith through hierarchies of space / Martin Huggon -- A house within the settlement: early Byzantine 'urban life' in a small-scale house? / Miriam Steinborn -- Medieval churches in a borderland: the case of Transylvania / Daniela Marcu Istrate -- Petrapilosa: the architectural and historical development of the structure / Josip Višnjić -- The formation of the three-compartment rural house in medieval Central Europe as a cultural synthesis of different building traditions / Pavel Vařeka.
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.