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Author Alcock, N. W. (Nathaniel Warren)

Title The medieval peasant house in Midland England / by Nat Alcock and Dan Miles ; with contributions by John Chenevix Trench [and others]
Edition First edition
Published Oxford, UK ; Oakville, CT : Oxbow Books, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (x, 326 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
1 online resource (1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
Contents Part I: Analysis of the medieval peasant house. Conventions -- Introduction -- Sampling and dating of the surveyed houses -- The planning and organisation of the surveyed houses -- The structure of the surveyed houses -- The carpentry of the medieval house -- Documentary evidence -- Conclusions: The medieval peasant house in Midland England -- Part II: Examples of medieval peasant houses. Selected house reports
Summary "This volume presents the results of a study of almost 120 medieval houses in the four Midland counties of Buckinghamshire, Leicestershire, Oxfordshire, and Warwickshire (with a few in Gloucestershire and Nottinghamshire), using a combination of tree-ring dating (dendrochronology) and architectural survey, together with the documentary background to another twenty houses"--Preface
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Architecture, Medieval -- England -- Midlands
Architecture, Domestic -- England -- Midlands
Dwellings -- England -- Midlands
Crucks -- England -- Midlands
Archaeological dating -- England -- Midlands
ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Residential.
HOUSE & HOME -- Design & Construction.
ARCHITECTURE -- History -- General.
Archaeological dating
Architecture, Domestic
Architecture, Medieval
Crucks
Dwellings
England -- Midlands
Genre/Form CD-ROMs.
Form Electronic book
Author Miles, D. W. H
ISBN 9781782971191
178297119X