Peasant Houses and Identity in Medieval Wales
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11903246 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Suggett (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 6-18 |
| Publication date | 2013-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Vernacular Architecture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-5477 • E-ISSN: 1749-6292 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/0305547713z.00000000011 |
| OpenAlex | W2060827812 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
The Welsh became dedicated consumers in the medieval period. This paper examines the evidence — which is visual and archaeological as well as literary — for this process which is inseparable from the construction and maintenance of social identities, especially in relation to housing culture. The late medieval peasant dwelling in Wales had a specific chronology and social context. This paper argues that the distinctive durable cruck-framed peasant hall house developed as an assertion of free identity inseparable from the changes in the relationship between lords and their tenants in late-medieval Wales. Peasants, often characterised as conservative and stoical, developed an innovative and assertive housing culture in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Wales
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Ethnology · Identity (music · Middle Ages · Peasant · Social group · Social identity theory · Social science · Sociology · Welsh · Historical Studies of British Isles · History · Medieval Literature and History · Scottish History and National Identity
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |