Les demeures urbaines médiévales en France : les fruits d’un renouvellement du regard (1995-2020)

Abstract

Résumés Medieval urban dwellings in France : a harvest of renewed observation (1995-2020), by Pierre Garrigou Grandchamp Among all the areas of research bearing on medieval architecture, the subject of urban domestic architecture in the 11th-15th centuries is undeniably one of those that has undergone a most remarkable development in the last decades, both in the diversity of themes treated and the abundance of scholarly production. These contributions, however, are in part little known, as they appear in regional journals or in the “ grey literature” of academia, made up of studies that are not always easily accessible. Consequently, the present publication has reserved an especially large place for them in the copious bibliography of 730 titles that brings the article to a close. This article echoes the one published by Yves Esquieu twenty-five years ago in the Bulletin monumental. It deals first with the underestimated importance of the corpus of medieval houses, then the nature of the first known dwellings (between the 5th and 11th century), the different ways and means of occupying land between the 11th and 14th century, the architectural programs and types that developed, building practices (including the materials used), and finally the “ outside and inside” of the residences (composition of the façades and arrangement of the interiors).