L'utilisation du fer dans la construction médiévale mosane : explications et premiers repères d'une évolution ; The use of iron in medieval mosan building : explanations and first steps of an evolution

The development of a new comparative approach establishing a link between the evaluation of the quantity of barks used in a roof frame and the volume of wood present in this same attic allows the acquisition of essential information for the apprehension of the economical, the technical and the social contexts in which a timber frame was drawn up. By carrying out this kind of comparison in a systematic way in about thirty attics of religious buildings dispersed in the Walloon region (Belgium), the evolution of these contexts develops step by step since 12th until 18thcentury and highlights phen... Mehr ...