IMC 2019: Sessions

Session 1542: Materiality and Medieval Monuments: Research at English Heritage Castles

Sponsor:	English Heritage
Organiser:	Michael Carter, Curatorial Department, English Heritage, London
Moderator/Chair:	Michael Carter, Curatorial Department, English Heritage, London
Paper 1542-a	Medieval Materiality beyond the Middle Ages: Exploring the Treatment of Medieval Buildings in Later Periods (Language: English) Richard Nevell, Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Architecture - Secular, Military History
Paper 1542-b	The Governor's Lodging at Carisbrooke Castle (Language: English) Samantha Stones, English Heritage, Guildford Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Secular, Daily Life, Gender Studies
Paper 1542-c	Changing Spaces: New Research on Richmond and Stokesay Castles (Language: English) William Wyeth, Royal Commission on the Ancient & Historical Monuments of Scotland / School of Arts & Humanities, University of Stirling Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Religious, Daily Life, Gender Studies
Abstract	This session includes presentations from three members of curatorial staff at English Heritage on medieval castles now in state care: Carisbrooke, Orford, Richmond, and Stokesay. The papers discuss new architectural, archaeological, and documentary discoveries regarding construction, phasing, adaptation, and destruction during the Middle Ages and later. The sites are also considered through the prisms of power and gender.