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