This illustrated book is intended as a non-specialist guide to the principal features of medieval buildings. It shows, through photographs and three-dimensional drawings, what to look for when conducting a building survey and how to recognise the clues that indicate the survival of older elements, often disguised by later alterations. Although based on Kentish examples, the book looks at the overall development of medieval buildings.

The House Within: Interpreting Medieval Houses in Kent

Arts & Photography

Barnwell, P.S.

Adams, A. T.

Architecture

The Stationery Office/Tso

This companion volume to The Medieval Houses of Kent (ISBN 0 11 300047 2) and The House Within (ISBN 0 11 300048 0) presents a detailed record of 414 medieval buildings spread across 107 parishes, many of them dated through dendrochronological analysis. Descriptions of the buildings are accompanied by a list of documentary sources and a bibliography of previous studies. The book is profusely illustrated with plans, sections and scale drawings of architectural details, and it will be of value to anyone interested in the primary evidence gathered by the Royal Commission in the course of its survey of Kentish buildings, conducted between 1986 and 1992.

A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England)

Pearson, Sarah

This work constitutes an appraisal of the development of kingship and royal administration in the kingdoms which, by the seventh century AD, had been established in the former Western Roman Empire. By viewing the seventh century in its own terms, and providing a detailed critique of the primary sources, the author sets out to show that kings were stronger than has often been thought, and their administration more sophisticated. A feature of his analysis is its setting of the evidence for early Anglo-Saxon England alongside that relating to the continental kingdoms. The evolution of governmental structures in a period increasingly remote from the imperial past is traced, as is the relationship of the "barbarian" kingdoms to the Byzantine Empire, and it is argued that, despite emergent differences between the kingdoms, many of their administrative institutions continued to be influenced by a common inheritence of Roman traditions.

Kings, Courtiers and Imperium: The Barbarian West, AD 565-725

History

Ancient Civilizations

Bristol Classical Press

Disagrees with the commonly held notion that the Roman imperial government disintegrated during the 5th century, and was replaced by the Germanic administrations of such peoples as the Visigoths, Burgundians, and Franks. Argues instead that the new kingdoms were an outgrowth of Roman rule, and owed much to it. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Emperor, Prefects, & Kings: The Roman West, 395-565

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Univ of North Carolina Pr

This book looks at the physical manifestations - buildings and structures - of the Cold War in England. Illustrated with contemporary and archive photographs, site and building plans it looks at the buildings within their military and political context.

Cold War: Building for Nuclear Confrontation 1946-1989

Cocroft, Wayne D

Thomas, Roger c.

Military

Historic England in association with Liverpool University Press

This research report examines the material evidence for the historical development, architectural characteristics and diverse uses of vernacular workshops. Up to the mid-19th century a large proportion of industrial output was not produced in the large, impressive buildings associated with the famous industrialistsùbut in small buildings built in local architectural styles that blended into the environment. The chapters of this volume look at the vernacular workshop as both a building type and as a workplace. They also analyze the significance of workshops for the industrial economy and process of the 18th and 19th centuries, and present the findings of recording programs carried out to document and evaluate the physical remains.

The Vernacular Workshop: From Craft to Industry, 1400-1900 (CBA Research Report)

Palmer, Marilyn

Airs, Malcolm

Archaeology

Council for British Archaeology

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