Edward Impey
Biographic Data
| ID | 5405670 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward Impey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward |
| FAMILY NAME | Impey |
| SIGNATURE | IMPEY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Armouries |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Une image sur pierre d’un château en bois
Dans la collection du Musée de Normandie se trouve un bloc en pierre de taille, utilisé ou réutilisé dans les annexes construites autour du donjon du château de Caen du xiie siècle par Philippe Auguste, portant un remarquable dessin incisé du début du xiiie siècle. La composition et le soin apporté aux détails suggèrent un dessinateur expérimenté et familier des techniques de construction. Son importance réside dans son sujet – un château en bois…
A Desperat Wepon’
The Royal Armouries possesses two scythe blades of pre-mechanised manufacture, mounted axially on straight hafts to form weapons. An inventory of 1686 lists eighty-one scythe blades at the Tower of London (by 1694 described as booty captured from the Duke of Monmouth’s rebels at Sedgemoor) and the surviving pair was probably among them. The Duke’s shortage of standard-issue equipment made improvisation essential, and the choice of re-hafted scyth…
A Castle in the Air? The Building, Arms, Action and Incident on the Eleventh-Century ‘Castle’ Capital from Westminster Hall
The restoration of Westminster Hall in the 1830s revealed a number of eleventh-century carved capitals, one depicting, as then described, ‘an armed man assailing a castle’. Aided by archaeological evidence from Abinger (Surrey), the ‘castle’ can be convincingly interpreted as a motte-top tower, carried by earth-fast posts, open-sided below and faced above with boards painted to resemble masonry. It is the only known depiction in elevation of a ty…
The Seigneurial Residence in Western Europe AD c 800–1600
In this volume's 18 chapters, diverse authors utilizing a variety of techniques explore elements of seigneurial domestic buildings (AD c.800-1600) on both sides of the English Channel. Among the contributors are scholars from as far afield as Germany, south-west France, Ireland, Scotland and the Channel Islands. They have provided a collection of papers which provides considerable insight into recent studies on the seigneurial domestic buildings …
Le Manoir Des Vallées at Barneville-La-Bertran, Normandy
An early thirteenth-century aisled hall and chamber-block has recently been recognised at Barneville-la-Bertran in the Pays d'Auge. Stone-walled with timber aisle posts, the hall was largely replaced by a timber-framed two-storey range in c. 1500, and both this and the chamber-block were later further modified. One of the five complexes of 'hall and chamber-block' derivation in Normandy where parts of both elements survive, it offers important ev…
The Donjon at Avranches (Normandy)
The identification of an eighteenth-century plan and a set of nineteenth-century photographs, in conjunction with a new survey of its remains, has permitted the reinterpretation of an early eleventh-century building at Avranches, in the Département of Manche, Normandy. This has shown that it measured 37 m by at least 27 m, was at least 16 m high, and that it can be considered as a donjon or ‘keep’, or, as now more usually termed, a ‘tour maîtress…
The donjon at Montrichard, Loir-et-Cher
Tour carrée de 9,62 m de côté (à l'intérieur), s 'élevant jadis jusqu'à 25 m, et constituée à l'origine d'un sous-sol surmonté d'un seul étage, le donjon du château de Montrichard est un exemple important de l'architecture domestique et militaire du XIIe s. On sait qu'un hall (aula) et une tour (turris) ont été bâtis en ce lieu en 1109-31, mais la destruction attestée de la turris fortissima (" tour très forte " ou " la plus forte tour ") de Mont…
The Seigneurial Residence in Normandy, 1125–1225
ENGLAND and Normandy shared a common (although not exclusive) tradition in the design of seigneurial houses between c. 1125 and 1225, typified by the housing of the hall and chambers in separate buildings, both built to an increasingly standardized pattern. The tradition as known in England is briefly defined and a selection of the Norman evidence presented and discussed in the light of it, identifying a common evolution during the 12th century b…
Langeais, Indre-Et-Loire. An Archaeological and Historical Study of the Early Donjon and its Environs
Langeais, Indre-Et-Loire. An Archaeological and Historical Study of the Early Donjon and its Environs
The early Donjon at Langeais is among the best-known early medieval buildings in Europe, but has not been systematically studied; this paper is based on a stone-by-stone record and archaeological analysis of the standing building, and presents an interpretation of its structural and functional history. Three major structural phases have been identified. Most of what remains is original (Phase I); the ruin can be reconstructed as a main block of t…
An Early Common Tiebeam Roof
THE TRANSEPT roofs of the abbey church of St Georges-de-Boscherville date substantially from the construction of the original building, finished c. 1130. Minor differences apart, they consisted of common rafters and ashlar-struts, supported by longitudinal ‘box frames’ standing on massive close-set tiebeams, the latter being grooved at their lower edges for a boarded ceiling. Roof structures of this period are extremely rare, but Boscherville is …
A Castle in the Air? The Building, Arms, Action and Incident on the Eleventh-Century ‘Castle’ Capital from Westminster Hall
The restoration of Westminster Hall in the 1830s revealed a number of eleventh-century carved capitals, one depicting, as then described, ‘an armed man assailing a castle’. Aided by archaeological evidence from Abinger (Surrey), the ‘castle’ can be convincingly interpreted as a motte-top tower, carried by earth-fast posts, open-sided below and faced above with boards painted to resemble masonry. It is the only known depiction in elevation of a ty…
Le Manoir Des Vallées at Barneville-La-Bertran, Normandy
An early thirteenth-century aisled hall and chamber-block has recently been recognised at Barneville-la-Bertran in the Pays d'Auge. Stone-walled with timber aisle posts, the hall was largely replaced by a timber-framed two-storey range in c. 1500, and both this and the chamber-block were later further modified. One of the five complexes of 'hall and chamber-block' derivation in Normandy where parts of both elements survive, it offers important ev…
The Seigneurial Residence in Normandy, 1125–1225
ENGLAND and Normandy shared a common (although not exclusive) tradition in the design of seigneurial houses between c. 1125 and 1225, typified by the housing of the hall and chambers in separate buildings, both built to an increasingly standardized pattern. The tradition as known in England is briefly defined and a selection of the Norman evidence presented and discussed in the light of it, identifying a common evolution during the 12th century b…
Langeais, Indre-Et-Loire. An Archaeological and Historical Study of the Early Donjon and its Environs
Langeais, Indre-Et-Loire. An Archaeological and Historical Study of the Early Donjon and its Environs
The early Donjon at Langeais is among the best-known early medieval buildings in Europe, but has not been systematically studied; this paper is based on a stone-by-stone record and archaeological analysis of the standing building, and presents an interpretation of its structural and functional history. Three major structural phases have been identified. Most of what remains is original (Phase I); the ruin can be reconstructed as a main block of t…
An Early Common Tiebeam Roof
THE TRANSEPT roofs of the abbey church of St Georges-de-Boscherville date substantially from the construction of the original building, finished c. 1130. Minor differences apart, they consisted of common rafters and ashlar-struts, supported by longitudinal ‘box frames’ standing on massive close-set tiebeams, the latter being grooved at their lower edges for a boarded ceiling. Roof structures of this period are extremely rare, but Boscherville is …
The Seigneurial Residence in Normandy, 1125–1225
ENGLAND and Normandy shared a common (although not exclusive) tradition in the design of seigneurial houses between c. 1125 and 1225, typified by the housing of the hall and chambers in separate buildings, both built to an increasingly standardized pattern. The tradition as known in England is briefly defined and a selection of the Norman evidence presented and discussed in the light of it, identifying a common evolution during the 12th century b…
The donjon at Montrichard, Loir-et-Cher
Tour carrée de 9,62 m de côté (à l'intérieur), s 'élevant jadis jusqu'à 25 m, et constituée à l'origine d'un sous-sol surmonté d'un seul étage, le donjon du château de Montrichard est un exemple important de l'architecture domestique et militaire du XIIe s. On sait qu'un hall (aula) et une tour (turris) ont été bâtis en ce lieu en 1109-31, mais la destruction attestée de la turris fortissima (" tour très forte " ou " la plus forte tour ") de Mont…
The Seigneurial Residence in Western Europe AD c 800–1600
In this volume's 18 chapters, diverse authors utilizing a variety of techniques explore elements of seigneurial domestic buildings (AD c.800-1600) on both sides of the English Channel. Among the contributors are scholars from as far afield as Germany, south-west France, Ireland, Scotland and the Channel Islands. They have provided a collection of papers which provides considerable insight into recent studies on the seigneurial domestic buildings …
Le Manoir Des Vallées at Barneville-La-Bertran, Normandy
An early thirteenth-century aisled hall and chamber-block has recently been recognised at Barneville-la-Bertran in the Pays d'Auge. Stone-walled with timber aisle posts, the hall was largely replaced by a timber-framed two-storey range in c. 1500, and both this and the chamber-block were later further modified. One of the five complexes of 'hall and chamber-block' derivation in Normandy where parts of both elements survive, it offers important ev…
The Donjon at Avranches (Normandy)
The identification of an eighteenth-century plan and a set of nineteenth-century photographs, in conjunction with a new survey of its remains, has permitted the reinterpretation of an early eleventh-century building at Avranches, in the Département of Manche, Normandy. This has shown that it measured 37 m by at least 27 m, was at least 16 m high, and that it can be considered as a donjon or ‘keep’, or, as now more usually termed, a ‘tour maîtress…
A Castle in the Air? The Building, Arms, Action and Incident on the Eleventh-Century ‘Castle’ Capital from Westminster Hall
The restoration of Westminster Hall in the 1830s revealed a number of eleventh-century carved capitals, one depicting, as then described, ‘an armed man assailing a castle’. Aided by archaeological evidence from Abinger (Surrey), the ‘castle’ can be convincingly interpreted as a motte-top tower, carried by earth-fast posts, open-sided below and faced above with boards painted to resemble masonry. It is the only known depiction in elevation of a ty…
A Desperat Wepon’
The Royal Armouries possesses two scythe blades of pre-mechanised manufacture, mounted axially on straight hafts to form weapons. An inventory of 1686 lists eighty-one scythe blades at the Tower of London (by 1694 described as booty captured from the Duke of Monmouth’s rebels at Sedgemoor) and the surviving pair was probably among them. The Duke’s shortage of standard-issue equipment made improvisation essential, and the choice of re-hafted scyth…
Une image sur pierre d’un château en bois
Dans la collection du Musée de Normandie se trouve un bloc en pierre de taille, utilisé ou réutilisé dans les annexes construites autour du donjon du château de Caen du xiie siècle par Philippe Auguste, portant un remarquable dessin incisé du début du xiiie siècle. La composition et le soin apporté aux détails suggèrent un dessinateur expérimenté et familier des techniques de construction. Son importance réside dans son sujet – un château en bois…
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