'For My Descendants and Myself, a Nice and Pleasant Abode' -

Agency, Micro-History and Built Environment examines how people have been making, using and transforming buildings and built environments in general, and how the buildings have been perceived. It also considers a diversity of built constructions – including dwellings and public buildings, sheds and manor houses, secular and sacral structures. Comparisons between different regions and parts of the globe, important when addressing buildings from a social perspective, are presented with studies from the UK, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Germany and Mexico. The chronological framework spans from the classical Byzantine period, over the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period and ends in 20th century Belfast.

Table of Contents

Preface
1. Reidun Marie Aasheim, Finn-Einar Eliassen and Marianne Johansson - The house that turned around and the street that wasn't: A cross-disciplinary study of the metamorphosis of the centre of a small town, c. 1680–1760.
2. Gunnar Almevik and Jonathan Westin - Entering Hemse. Enacting the assemblage of a twelfth-century Gotlandic stave-church.
3. Anna Bergman - Boundaries between private and public space in medieval and early modern Stockholm, c.1350–1700.
4. Linn Willetts Borgen - Constructing Sacredness: The Stave Technique as Architectural Memory in Early Modern Norway.
5. Jeroen Bouwmeester - Building in Stone: a brief introduction to the development of the use of stone as a building material in the Netherlands between 1000 and 1400 AD.
6. Per Cornell and Adriana Velázquez Morlet - Time, Built Space and the Question of the Household in the Case of Ecab, Quintana Roo, Mexico: Maya Settlement Organization in the Late Postclassic period.
7. Gunilla Gardelin - Reuse in wooden architecture.
8. Antoinette Huijbers - Re-assembling domestic environments: A relational–habitus approach in studying the individuality, commonalities, continuity and change of medieval buildings.
9. Sarah Kerr - Ambition and Architecture: a study of medieval lodging ranges.
10. Linda Qviström - Windows and light in medieval buildings on Gotland.
11. Miriam Steinborn - The hidden world behind simple structures.
12. Göran Tagesson - Poor Widow Catharina Bergstedt, What Now? On Houses, Gender and Agency in Early Modern Swedish Towns.
13. Liz Thomas  - St Joseph’s Church – the peoples’ heartland.
Biography of the authors

Per Cornell is Professor in Archaeology at the University of Gothenburg. He has taught at all levels at various universities across the world and has ample experience directing archaeological fieldwork, mainly in Latin America. His research topics include Early Urban Contexts in Latin America, Early Modern Archaeology, Bronze Age Archaeology in Scandinavia, History of Archaeology, Theory and Method in Archaeology, and several other fields.



Liz Thomas Is A Historical-Archaeologist And Heritage And Cultural Researcher Based At The School Of Natural And Built Environment, The Queen’s University Of Belfast. She Recently Completed Her British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, A Multidisciplinary Study That Focused On The Docklands Of Belfast, Northern Ireland. She Specialises In The Study Of Institutions, In Particular Won Policymaking, Political Environments And Human Agency. Thomas’ Current Research Is Based On Public Heritage.