I	Participants Introduce Themselves (II)
II	Professor Matthew Johnson (Southampton): ‘Medieval Castles, Early Modern Spaces’
III	OnSite: Kenilworth Castle
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I: Participants Introduce Themselves (II)

 

II: Professor Matthew Johnson (Southampton): ‘Medieval Castles, Early Modern Spaces’

A lot has been written about architectural spaces and the social values they represent in the early modern period. But it has often been forgotten that many of the spaces of social and symbolic value to early modern social actors were 'medieval'. Buildings like Kenilworth Castle, Westminster Hall and the other London palaces, Penshurst Place, Carrick-on-Suir, were built in the Middle Ages, but continued to act as backdrops and settings for successive generations. We will take a look at a few of these buildings and ask how they were re-used, sometimes in very new ways, and how this continuing use tells us interesting things about the identities of their owners and users. Oh, and what did the rest of the population think about such buildings?

Some Suggested Reading

Johnson, M.H. 2002. Behind the Castle Gate: From Medieval to Renaissance. London, Routledge.
Duffy, C. 1979. Siege Warfare: The Fortress in the Early Modern World. London, Routledge.
Cooper, N. 1999. Houses of the Grenty 1480-1660. Yale. Fairly traditional but authoritative.
Girouard, M. Life in the English Country House. Yale. A bit out of date but still a classic.
Klingelhofer, E. 2002. Article on Irish houses in Lawrence, S. (ed.) Archaeology of the British.
Leask, H.G. 1941. Irish Castles and Castellated Houses. Chapters 12-14.
Also -- think about the way the 12th century architecture of Durham Cathedral is used in the film Elizabeth...

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