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    Structures and social order in a medieval Italian monastery and village: architecture and experience in Villamagna

    Goodson, Caroline (2018) Structures and social order in a medieval Italian monastery and village: architecture and experience in Villamagna. In: Thomas, E. and Campbell, J. (eds.) Buildings in Society: International Studies in the Historic Era. Archaeopress, pp. 51-62. ISBN 9781784918316.

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    Abstract

    The recent excavations at Villamagna (FR), Italy, have revealed the monumental remains of a monastery and abbey church of the tenth to thirteenth centuries, and the contemporary village where the monastery’s estate workers lived. These were all situated within the ruins of a substantial imperial Roman villa known as Villa Magna, an ancient name preserved through the middle ages. These different structures of medieval Villamagna provide a pertinent case study to explore how the differing topography, construction technique and quality, and uses of buildings in a given community over time might have been experienced by the people who lived there and used them. Italian medieval archaeology, as a discipline and community of scholars, brings a Marxian approach to interpreting sites like these, and the assumptions brought to bear in Italian contexts might be usefully juxtaposed with the approaches of other subsets of our disciplines.

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    Item Type: Book Section
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): Monastery, domestic architecture, topography, social hierarchy
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies
    Research Centres and Institutes: Architecture, Space and Society, Centre for
    Depositing User: Caroline Goodson
    Date Deposited: 26 Jan 2017 14:20
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 17:20
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13839

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