IMC 2006: Sessions
Session 1215: Building Domesticity: New Archaeological and Historical Work on English Urban Houses, 1300-1600
Wednesday 12 July 2006, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Department of Archaeology, University of York |
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Organiser: | Jayne A. E. Rimmer, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York |
Moderator/Chair: | Jane C. Grenville, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York |
Paper 1215-a | Unam domum lapideam cum fundo: Investigating Commercial and Domestic Space in East Anglian Towns, c. 1066-1400 (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Architecture - General, Historiography - Medieval, Social History |
Paper 1215-b | Private Lives and Public Power: The Houses of the Civic Elite in Norwich, 1400-1600 (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Architecture - General, Historiography - Medieval, Social History |
Paper 1215-c | The Use of Documentary Sources to Identify Smaller Houses in Late Medieval York and Norwich (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Architecture - General, Historiography - Medieval, Social History |
Abstract | The aim of this session is to assemble recent doctoral research into medieval urban housing. The papers presented here take an interdisciplinary approach, showing how archaeological, documentary, and architectural sources can further our present understanding of domestic buildings. Examples of houses from across the social scale will be examined, from elite merchant's properties to smaller dwellings. The relationship between commercial space and more private areas such as the hall will be a major theme for consideration. The synthesis of diverse examples of house-types and their inhabitants anticipates the elucidation of the concept of domesticity in an urban medieval context. |