Peasant Houses and Identity in Medieval Wales

Suggett, Richard

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“…Emerging from a conscious desire to theorise medieval buildings, approaches which seek a shared architectural 'grammar', a materialisation of habitus (a shared unconscious material and social knowledge; after Bourdieu, 1977), have dominated their study (e.g. Austin & Thomas, 1990;Johnson, 1993;Grenville, 2008;Suggett, 2013). This work suggests a shared understanding of space across medieval society, with the concept of a 'high' and 'low' end, most visibly present in the layout of the church, being seen in domestic, religious and civic buildings (e.g.…”

Section: Temporality Difference and Spacementioning

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Examining Temporality and Difference: an Intensive Approach to Understanding Medieval Rural Settlement

Jervis

2022

J Archaeol Method Theory

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A new theoretical approach to medieval rural settlement, built on the concept of intensity, is proposed. It is argued that analysing settlements as intensive spaces creates new opportunities to explore the emergence of difference in medieval lived experience. The approach is intended to overcome the challenges posed by approaches to medieval architecture framed by binary divisions (e.g. inside/outside). Drawing on posthuman thought, it is argued that such divisions constrain the understanding of how and why difference emerged in the past. The paper advances this approach through its application to the study of house construction and domestic economy in the medieval village of Hangleton, England. It is proposed that difference emerges as everyday practices are performed in constantly changing material environments, generating situationally grounded but varied experiences of rurality. Rather than being subject to macro-scale economic processes, this approach allows us to understand historical change as a patchwork of localised interactions which overflowed the bounds of communities or regions.

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Section: Temporality Difference and Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

Examining Temporality and Difference: an Intensive Approach to Understanding Medieval Rural Settlement

Jervis

2022

J Archaeol Method Theory

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Urbanity, Decline, and Regeneration in Later Medieval England: Towards a Posthuman Household Microhistory

Jervis

2024

Open Archaeology

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It is proposed that combining a microhistorical approach with the frameworks offered by household archaeology and posthumanism provides a way of rethinking what urbanity means in archaeological (specifically later medieval) contexts. This approach is deployed to challenge generalising approaches which obscure the complexity, vibrancy, and generative capacity of past urbanities. Focussing on the question of the fortunes of later medieval small towns in England, a posthuman household microhistory of two households in the town of Steyning (southern England) is presented. This demonstrates how a focus on the practices undertaken by, and relational constitution of, households can reveal difference and open new avenues for understanding past urbanity.

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Peasant Houses and Identity in Medieval Wales

Cited by 2 publications

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Examining Temporality and Difference: an Intensive Approach to Understanding Medieval Rural Settlement

Examining Temporality and Difference: an Intensive Approach to Understanding Medieval Rural Settlement

Urbanity, Decline, and Regeneration in Later Medieval England: Towards a Posthuman Household Microhistory

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