‘For My Descendants and Myself, a Nice and Pleasant Abode’ – Agency, Micro-history and Built Environment: Buildings in Society International BISI III, Stockholm 2017

This volume examines how people have been making, using and transforming buildings and built environments, and how buildings have been perceived, from the Byzantine period to modern times. It also considers a diversity of built constructions – including dwellings and public buildings, sheds and manor houses, and secular and sacral structures. Agency, Micro-History and Built Environment examines how people have been making, using and transforming buildings and built environments in general, and how the buildings have been perceived. It also considers a diversity of built constructions – including dwellings and public buildings, sheds and manor houses, secular and sacral structures. Comparisons between different regions and parts of the globe, important when addressing buildings from a social perspective, are presented with studies from the UK, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Germany and Mexico. The chronological framework spans from the classical Byzantine period, over the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period and ends in 20th century Belfast.

• | Author: Goran Tagesson, Per Cornell, Mark Gardiner, Liz Thomas, Katherine Weikert
• | Publisher: Archaeopress
• | Publication Date: Dec 10, 2020
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781789695816
• | ISBN-10: 1789695813