New Approaches in Buildings Archaeology: An Examination of Late Medieval Lodging Ranges

Summary

This is an abstract from the "New Work in Medieval Archaeology, Part 1: Landscapes, Food, and Health" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Buildings archaeology somewhat lags behind the broader discipline of archaeology in its adoption and creation of new theoretical propositions possibly due to the misconception that the built environment lies solely in the remit of architectural historians rather than archaeologists. It is not, however, sitting stagnant: a number of new approaches and key theories are influencing the study of buildings, such as the theory of space, phenomenology, and affect theory. This paper details the use of these methods in the examination of lodging ranges—the earliest examples of quasi-private spaces in the late medieval great house—to consider the buildings’ form, function, use and meaning. These methods reveal varying sensory perceptions and the creation of illusory architecture and deepen our understanding of social distance and identities within the late medieval great house; this in turn provides an insight into the medieval lived experience.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• New Work in Medieval Archaeology, Part 1: Landscapes, Food, and Health   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 37837.0