The Built Environment as Material Culture in Medieval Europe
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Special Session
Organizer Name
Scott D. Stull
Organizer Affiliation
SUNY-Cortland
Presider Name
Scott D. Stull
Paper Title 1
Living with the Past: The Influence of the Roman Ruins on the Construction of Anglo-Saxon Towns
Presenter 1 Name
David D. Crane
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Boston College
Paper Title 2
The Tracks of Leo across Sea and Stone: Pilgrimage, the Built Environment, and Cultural Reproduction at the Early Medieval Monastery of Inishark, Co. Galway, Ireland
Presenter 2 Name
Ryan Lash
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Northwestern Univ.
Paper Title 3
The Archaeology of Romanesque Churches in Transylvania (Eleventh-Thirteenth Century)
Presenter 3 Name
Ioan Marian Tiplic, Maria Emilia Tiplic
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Univ. “Lucien Blaga” din Sibiu, Institute of Socio-Human Research
Start Date
9-5-2013 7:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 1140
Description
The built environment, encompassing buildings, gardens, town plans, and similar constructed forms, embodies social attitudes and cultural beliefs about a range of topics, and helps create and align patterns of behavior and the use of space. While the archaeology of buildings (houses, churches, forts, castles, etc.) has a long tradition, there has been very little attention paid to the way in which those buildings can help us understand social attitudes towards space. The session will explore the built environment of medieval Europe from the perspective that material creations convey, express, and contest social and cultural attitudes, beliefs, and ideals. The built environment can be used to explore much more than chronology or patterns of aesthetic expression, and can serve to reveal remarkable insights into relations of power, gender, and identity and related social topics in medieval Europe.
Scott D. Stull, Ph.D.
The Built Environment as Material Culture in Medieval Europe
Schneider 1140
The built environment, encompassing buildings, gardens, town plans, and similar constructed forms, embodies social attitudes and cultural beliefs about a range of topics, and helps create and align patterns of behavior and the use of space. While the archaeology of buildings (houses, churches, forts, castles, etc.) has a long tradition, there has been very little attention paid to the way in which those buildings can help us understand social attitudes towards space. The session will explore the built environment of medieval Europe from the perspective that material creations convey, express, and contest social and cultural attitudes, beliefs, and ideals. The built environment can be used to explore much more than chronology or patterns of aesthetic expression, and can serve to reveal remarkable insights into relations of power, gender, and identity and related social topics in medieval Europe.
Scott D. Stull, Ph.D.