Housing conditions in English towns and cities in the 14-15th centuries
Keywords:
housing, architecture, towns and cities, urban history, late medieval EnglandAbstract
This paper deals with housing in late medieval English towns and cities. The author attempts to research certain aspects of building, planning, embellishment of these houses through the lenses of social history. The author argues that in whole there was a significant progress, aesthetic (more effort was put in the embellishment of the house) as well as technological (new building materials and architectural elements), in the innovative development of urban architecture. The findings suggest that the evolution of housing was related to the topographical (lack of areas available for construction), economical (wealth of the townsmen), social (striving to preserve the existing social structures) and ideological (development of private life) factors.
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Housing conditions in English towns and cities in the 14-15th centuries. (2020). Zaporizhzhia Historical Review, 1(48), 275-278. https://history.znu.edu.ua/index.php/journal/article/view/372
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