Vernacular Buildings and Urban Social Practice: Wood and People in Early Modern Swedish Society

Contents

Introduction ;
Chapter 1 The scale of the city: the social dimension of space in theory and method ;
Chapter 2 Wooden buildings and the demolition frenzy – the bankruptcy of the Swedish building culture ;
Chapter 3 Understanding wooden buildings – a background to Scandinavian research ;
Chapter 4 Considering the omnipresence of wood – an exposé of wood materiality ;
Chapter 5 Urban vernacular wood constructions – three modes of building ;
Five Swedish early modern towns – a background of local urban history and archaeological investigations ;
On the comforts of log timber buildings – keeping warm and movable ;
The prevalence of timber-framing ;
Elusive traces of urban post and plank construction ;
Chapter 6 Urban townscapes ;
Storeyed houses and crowded streets in urban townscapes ;
Life on the margins – buildings and living environments in the urban centre and periphery ;
Chapter 7 Contextualizing urban vernacular architecture – distinguishing the actual and the ideal ;
Chapter 8 Wood, people and society: the case studies combined ;
Chapter 9 General conclusions and summary ;
Appendix 1. The collection of finds in wood from Nya Lödöse 2013 ;
Appendix 2. Material wood remains in the moat, Nya Lödöse 2015 ;
Appendix 3a. A+B List of archaeological remains of log timber buildings ;
Appendix 3b. Archaeological evidence of log timber technique ;
Appendix 4a. A+B List of preserved buildings in log timber, Vita Bergen ;
Appendix 4b. Preserved buildings in Vita Bergen, Stockholm ;
Appendix 5. Timber-framing in Archaeological reports ;
Appendix 6. Timber-framing in historical records ;
Appendix 7. Timber-framing in photos ;
Appendix 9. Post and plank in Archaeological reports ;
Appendix 8. Post and plank in Fire Insurance Records ;
Appendix 10. Preserved post and plank buildings ;
Appendix 11. Fire insurance records, Majorna 1795, residential buildings ;
Appendix 12. Fire insurance records, Gothenburg 1800-1804, residential buildings ;
Archives, sources and bibliography

About the Author

Andrine Nilsen has historical urban buildings archaeology as a special interest and undertook her doctoral studies at the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Gothenburg. Before this she worked in the project The early modern town - between the local and the global publishing on the subject of medieval wooden houses and early modern town plans.