Medieval
Roughly 1100 to 1500 for anything with surviving fabric: load-bearing masonry, timber frames, and openings sized by what the structure would allow rather than by the room.
- Also called
- Middle Ages · mediaeval
- Seen in the wild
- None
- Broader
- None
- Narrower
- None
- Span
- c. 1150-1485, defensibly 1066-1550in the United KingdomThe boundaries are conventional rather than fixed by an event, which is why they are given as approximate.
- Usage
- Not measured
- Provenance
- authored@instruments/taxonomy ADR 0001
- Status
- active
- Material Semantics id
- period.medieval
- Note
- The historical Middle Ages start far earlier, around 500, but almost nothing standing predates 1100, so the useful bracket for a building or an interior starts there.
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