Table of Contents

Part 1. Exploring Domestic and Social Space   Ways of Living in Medieval England   Human Spatial Behaviour in Dwellings and Social Psychology   The Investigation of Domesticated Space in Archaeology - Architecture and Human Beings   The Investigation of Domesticated Space in Archaeology - Beyond Architecture Part 2. Regions and Regionality   The Rural Home. Local or 'European Style'?   'The Schleswig Farmstead' - A Key to the Dynamics of Culture in the Danish-German Borderland from Medieval to Recent Times   Medieval Turf Houses in Jutland, Denmark - A Regional Building Practice?   Islands Across the Sea - Aspects of Regionality in the Norse North Atlantic Diaspora Part 3. Houses, Homes and Social Strategies   Houses and Households in Viking Age Scandinavia - Some Case Studies   Opening Doors - Entering Social Understandings of the Viking Age Longhouses   "Pat var háttr í pann tíma"   Proper Living - Exploring Domestic Ideals in Medieval Denmark   Form and Function in the Late Medieval Rural House - An example from the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, Sussex   A House is Not Just a Home - Means of Display in English Medieval Gentry Buildings   Smoke Houses and Entrepreneurship in Two Rural Villages of Medieval Scania, Örja and Skegrie   The 'Stube' and its Heating - Archaeological Evidence for a Smoke-Free Living Room between Alps and North Sea   Medieval Houses in Aalborg, Denmark - a Study of Excavated Timber Houses   Burned-down Timber-framed Houses in Medieval Odense, Denmark   The House as a Social Project in Northern-Central Italy, c 700-1000    The Development of Dutch Townhouses 700-1300