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Building archaeological investigation of roof trusses in Ärentuna church, Uppland, Sweden
Dendrochronological results from medieval roof trusses in Tensta church, Uppland, Sweden
Building archaeological investigation of roof trusses in the attic of tensta church, Uppland, Sweden
Climate always has a prominent role when constructing and designing buildings. Yet climate histor... more Climate always has a prominent role when constructing and designing buildings. Yet climate history and architecture is still a rather unexploited field of research. This is quite surprising since people, before central heating was introduced in the Northern Hemisphere, were more vulnerable to climate change and unpredictable weather situations. This article discusses how a historical climate change like the Little Ice Age (c. 1500–1900) affected indoor climate and comfort in contemporaneous buildings. The cooling period was particularly noticeable in Northern Europe from 1550 to 1720, when the inhabitants faced significantly longer heating periods than before. Since people did not have the same possibility to control the indoor climate as in our day, we can assume that many more architectural elements than heating sources interacted in order to create comfortable spaces. By illustrating with both theoretical and empirical examples, the purpose of this essay is to visualize how clima...
Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, 2013
Climate always has a prominent role when constructing and designing buildings. Yet climate histor... more Climate always has a prominent role when constructing and designing buildings. Yet climate history and architecture is still a rather unexploited field of research. This is quite surprising since people, before central heating was introduced in the Northern Hemisphere, were more vulnerable to climate change and unpredictable weather situations. This article discusses how a historical climate change like the Little Ice Age (c. 1500-1900) affected indoor climate and comfort in contemporaneous buildings. The cooling period was particularly noticeable in Northern Europe from 1550 to 1720, when the inhabitants faced significantly longer heating periods than before. Since people did not have the same possibility to control the indoor climate as in our day, we can assume that many more architectural elements than heating sources interacted in order to create comfortable spaces. By illustrating with both theoretical and empirical examples, the purpose of this essay is to visualize how climate not only operated as a catalyst for technical innovations and architectural alterations but also as a tool by linking status to comfort during early modern period. The idea is to give some insights how to revitalize archaeological and architectural studies by integrating climate history as one dynamic variable when approaching historical buildings and remains.
Current Swedish Archaeology, 2021
Historical archaeology in Scandinavia is an expand- ing field, but despite its global nature, the... more Historical archaeology in Scandinavia is an expand- ing field, but despite its global nature, the discipline is trapped in methodological nationalism. The early modern and modern societies are generally studied us- ing the current national borders even though the ma- terial culture should not be constrained in this way. By illustrating with both theoretical and empirical ex- amples, the objective of this paper is to bring about a greater awareness of the global nature of the material culture and the interactions that took place between peoples in Europe and beyond.
This dissertation is about the way buildings archaeology approaches historical buildings. The aim... more This dissertation is about the way buildings archaeology approaches historical buildings. The aim is to show how buildings archaeology can be renewed and developed. The motivation is my belief that buildings archaeology does not fully utilize the potential of standing buildings as historical sources, which is mainly due to the traditional outlook on buildings as two-dimensional objects. When three-dimensionality is ignored, the spatial dimension disappears from the analysis and with it a significant aspect of the building which is difficult to reconstruct and discuss afterwards. The main aim of the dissertation is to expose the limitations of the two-dimensional outlook, and simultaneously to conduct a critical trial of an approach that brings the three-dimensionality of a building into buildings archaeology. To assist me I use ideas borrowed from current research and methodological development in excavating archaeology and architectural theory. With Dalby monastery as a case study,...
Det har ar en ideskrift som visar vagen till en utvecklad byggnadsarkeologi. Utgangspunkten ar et... more Det har ar en ideskrift som visar vagen till en utvecklad byggnadsarkeologi. Utgangspunkten ar ett bo-perspektiv som bejakar relationen manniskor, byggnader, miljo och landskap i all sin komplexite ...
Sex forskare fran olika humanistiska discipliner skriver varsin essa kring temat virtualitet.
Lund Archaeological Review, 1996
Lund Studies in Medieval Archaeology, 2005
Building archaeological investigation of roof trusses in Ärentuna church, Uppland, Sweden
Dendrochronological results from medieval roof trusses in Tensta church, Uppland, Sweden
Building archaeological investigation of roof trusses in the attic of tensta church, Uppland, Sweden
Climate always has a prominent role when constructing and designing buildings. Yet climate histor... more Climate always has a prominent role when constructing and designing buildings. Yet climate history and architecture is still a rather unexploited field of research. This is quite surprising since people, before central heating was introduced in the Northern Hemisphere, were more vulnerable to climate change and unpredictable weather situations. This article discusses how a historical climate change like the Little Ice Age (c. 1500–1900) affected indoor climate and comfort in contemporaneous buildings. The cooling period was particularly noticeable in Northern Europe from 1550 to 1720, when the inhabitants faced significantly longer heating periods than before. Since people did not have the same possibility to control the indoor climate as in our day, we can assume that many more architectural elements than heating sources interacted in order to create comfortable spaces. By illustrating with both theoretical and empirical examples, the purpose of this essay is to visualize how clima...
Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, 2013
Climate always has a prominent role when constructing and designing buildings. Yet climate histor... more Climate always has a prominent role when constructing and designing buildings. Yet climate history and architecture is still a rather unexploited field of research. This is quite surprising since people, before central heating was introduced in the Northern Hemisphere, were more vulnerable to climate change and unpredictable weather situations. This article discusses how a historical climate change like the Little Ice Age (c. 1500-1900) affected indoor climate and comfort in contemporaneous buildings. The cooling period was particularly noticeable in Northern Europe from 1550 to 1720, when the inhabitants faced significantly longer heating periods than before. Since people did not have the same possibility to control the indoor climate as in our day, we can assume that many more architectural elements than heating sources interacted in order to create comfortable spaces. By illustrating with both theoretical and empirical examples, the purpose of this essay is to visualize how climate not only operated as a catalyst for technical innovations and architectural alterations but also as a tool by linking status to comfort during early modern period. The idea is to give some insights how to revitalize archaeological and architectural studies by integrating climate history as one dynamic variable when approaching historical buildings and remains.
Current Swedish Archaeology, 2021
Historical archaeology in Scandinavia is an expand- ing field, but despite its global nature, the... more Historical archaeology in Scandinavia is an expand- ing field, but despite its global nature, the discipline is trapped in methodological nationalism. The early modern and modern societies are generally studied us- ing the current national borders even though the ma- terial culture should not be constrained in this way. By illustrating with both theoretical and empirical ex- amples, the objective of this paper is to bring about a greater awareness of the global nature of the material culture and the interactions that took place between peoples in Europe and beyond.
This dissertation is about the way buildings archaeology approaches historical buildings. The aim... more This dissertation is about the way buildings archaeology approaches historical buildings. The aim is to show how buildings archaeology can be renewed and developed. The motivation is my belief that buildings archaeology does not fully utilize the potential of standing buildings as historical sources, which is mainly due to the traditional outlook on buildings as two-dimensional objects. When three-dimensionality is ignored, the spatial dimension disappears from the analysis and with it a significant aspect of the building which is difficult to reconstruct and discuss afterwards. The main aim of the dissertation is to expose the limitations of the two-dimensional outlook, and simultaneously to conduct a critical trial of an approach that brings the three-dimensionality of a building into buildings archaeology. To assist me I use ideas borrowed from current research and methodological development in excavating archaeology and architectural theory. With Dalby monastery as a case study,...
Det har ar en ideskrift som visar vagen till en utvecklad byggnadsarkeologi. Utgangspunkten ar et... more Det har ar en ideskrift som visar vagen till en utvecklad byggnadsarkeologi. Utgangspunkten ar ett bo-perspektiv som bejakar relationen manniskor, byggnader, miljo och landskap i all sin komplexite ...
Sex forskare fran olika humanistiska discipliner skriver varsin essa kring temat virtualitet.
Lund Archaeological Review, 1996
Lund Studies in Medieval Archaeology, 2005
Det här är en idéskrift som visar vägen till en utvecklad byggnadsarkeologi. Utgångspunkten är ... more Det här är en idéskrift som visar vägen till en utvecklad byggnadsarkeologi.
Utgångspunkten är ett bo-perspektiv som bejakar relationen
människor, byggnader, miljö och landskap i all sin komplexitet.
Byggnadsarkeologin hamnar därmed i ett nytt sammanhang, vilket stimulerar
till kunskapsutbyten som går över olika ämnesfält och leder till
att det byggda kulturarvet på ett tydligare sätt blir en integrerad del av
den samlade kulturmiljön.