IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 2015: British Archaeological Association, III: Architecture, Decoration, and the Meanings Within
Friday 9 July 2021, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | British Archaeological Association |
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| Organiser: | Harriet Mahood, Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading |
| Moderator/Chair: | Harriet Mahood, Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading |
| Paper 2015-a | Shelter from the Storm: The Importance of Buildings for Protecting Agricultural Produce (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Secular, Daily Life, Local History |
| Paper 2015-b | The Knowledge of Carpenters from the Early Medieval Period in Setting Out Roofs and Buildings without Geometry and Numerical Measurement (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Architecture - General, Technology |
| Paper 2015-c | Holy Fountain Heads: How the Shapes and Decoration of English Medieval Water Towers, Chapter Houses, and Sacristies Proclaimed Their Function as Sources of Divine Water (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Religious, Monasticism |
| Abstract | Our final BAA sponsored session looks at a series of buildings and how they reflect the climates they were built and used in. Our first paper looks at the use and design of barns, granaries and animal houses and argues for the meanings evident to the contemporary that are lost on the modern viewer. We then move on to the association of particular religious buildings with water and the divine role of water. |