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Title 'For My Descendants and Myself, a Nice and Pleasant Abode' - Agency, Micro-History and Built Environment : Buildings in Society International BISI III, Stockholm 2017 / edited by Göran Tagesson, Per Cornell, Mark Gardiner, Liz Thomas, Katherine Weikert.
Published Oxford : Archaeopress, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (189 pages)
Contents Preface 1. The house that turned around and the street that wasn't : a cross-disciplinary study of the metamorphosis of the centre of a small town, c. 1680-1760 / Reidun Marie Aasheim, Finn-Einar Eliassen and Marianne Johansson -- 2. Entering Hemse : enacting the assemblage of a twelfth-century Gotlandic stave-church / Gunnar Almevik and Jonathan Westin -- 3. Boundaries between private and public space in medieval and early modern Stockholm, c.1350-1700 / Anna Bergman -- 4. Constructing sacredness : the stave technique as architectural memory in early modern Norway / Linn Willetts Borgen -- 5. Building in stone : a brief introduction to the development of the use of stone as a building material in the Netherlands between 1000 and 1400 AD / Jeroen Bouwmeester -- 6. Time, built space and the question of the household in the case of Ecab, Quintana Roo, Mexico : Maya settlement organization in the late postclassic period / Per Cornell and Adriana Velázquez Morlet -- 7. Reuse in wooden architecture / Gunilla Gardelin -- 8. Re-assembling domestic environments : a relational-habitus approach in studying the individuality, commonalities, continuity and change of medieval buildings / Antoinette Huijbers -- 9. Ambition and architecture: a study of medieval lodging ranges / Sarah Kerr -- 10. Windows and light in medieval buildings on Gotland / Linda Qviström -- 11. The hidden world behind simple structures / Miriam Steinborn -- 12. Poor Widow Catharina Bergstedt, what now? on houses, gender and agency in early modern Swedish towns / Göran Tagesson -- 13. St Joseph's Church : the peoples' heartland / Liz Thomas -- Biography of the authors
Summary This volume examines how people have been making, using and transforming buildings and built environments, and how buildings have been perceived, from the Byzantine period to modern times. It also considers a diversity of built constructions - including dwellings and public buildings, sheds and manor houses, and secular and sacral structures
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 13, 2021)
Subject Architecture and society -- History
Buildings -- History -- Congresses
Dwellings -- History -- Congresses
Archaeology.
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
History of architecture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural & Social.
ARCHITECTURE -- History -- General.
Architecture and society
Buildings
Dwellings
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
Author Tagesson, Göran, editor
Cornell, Per, editor
Gardiner, Mark, editor
Thomas, Liz, editor
Weikert, Katherine, editor
ISBN 1789695821
9781789695823
Other Titles Agency, Micro-History and Built Environment