The English Mediaeval House (1965)

by Margaret Wood

Other authors: Sir Mortimer Wheeler (Foreword)

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The charm of mediaeval architecture lies not in its intrinsic beauty alone. It is a link with our ancestors. We are looking at buildings which they saw. The essence of the past still lingers like the notes of distant music, faintly heard, and for a while our spirits are in tune. Old buildings mirror the conditions of their time, and the dwelling-house most of all. More than any other form of architecture, the mediaeval house reflects the daily life of a period, and yet, until recently, it has seldom been studied as a whole.… (more)

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1965

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The making of this important book began with a systematic study of Norman houses and thence proceeded steadily and logically from century to mediaeval century.

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The charm of mediaeval architecture lies not in its intrinsic beauty alone.

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Norman domestic architecture has been neglected in the past.

I. Norman town houses; Jews' and merchants' houses; 'King John's houses'.

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The charm of mediaeval architecture lies not in its intrinsic beauty alone. It is a link with our ancestors. We are looking at buildings which they saw. The essence of the past still lingers like the notes of distant music, faintly heard, and for a while our spirits are in tune. Old buildings mirror the conditions of their time, and the dwelling-house most of all. More than any other form of architecture, the mediaeval house reflects the daily life of a period, and yet, until recently, it has seldom been studied as a whole.

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