Medieval
type: Concept
in scheme: period
notation: period.medieval
definition: 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.
alternative label: Middle Ages
alternative label: mediaeval
semantic id: period.medieval
source basis: authored
source: @instruments/taxonomy ADR 0001
span:
  circa: true
  earliest: 1066
  region: gb
  start: 1150
  end: 1485
  latest: 1550
scope 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.