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11 The contribution of documents

21.1 The inventories of castles : reflections on a source
M.‑T. Lorcin

3The diversity of these documents, important by their size, by their date, and the situation of the castles that they concern, is also important for the descriptions of their contents. The listings, often very considerable, of furniture and domestic objects contribute to give precious information on the way of life of the owners.

41.2 Internal organisation of Bresse castles during the XIVth century : the contribution of the texts for the archaeologist
J.‑M. Lescuyer, J.‑M. Poisson

5In many cases, the medieval castles of Bresse were conceived as stone shells enclosing wooden buildings. The accounts of repairs help to understand the internal organisation of these structures. They are often limited to the essential elements such as the hall, the bedroom(s), the kitchen and the chapel.

61.3 Life in castles of the Auvergne at the end of the Middle‑Ages
P. Charbonnier

7This study presents jointly, originating from abundant documentary evidence the material organisation of a series of castles and the status of the persons who occupied them. The occupation of these forteresses by the large population of varying status and function can be judged here.

81.4 The sad fate of the medieval castles of the Counts of Forez
E. Viallard

9The author presents in this study, the destiny of the castles built during the Middle‑Ages by the Counts of Forez, to the modern period. It is recorded that the majority of these forteresses were, by the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries abandoned, ruined, or lost. A series of statements following visits have permitted precise descriptions to be given on the present situation.

101.5 True or faulse ? The contribution of iconography to the study of medieval castles
D. Alexandre‑Bidon

11Medieval figurative representations constitute a corpus of illustrations where the medieval castle is frequently represented. A critical study has permitted to draw from this particular source a large amount of information about internal and external appearance of castles.

121.6 The Mansion, an original system of temporal devolution of the castles belonging to the episcopat of Lyon
M.‑P. Feuillet

13The primatial of the Gauls possessed a very important reserve of landed properties and controlled the quasi‑totalité of the castles in the Lyonnais. The administration by the chapter of this temporal estate was organised into lordships called “obéances" and entrusted to canons. During the XIVth century, one sees the appearance of a division of the “obéances” corresponding to a lordship, the mansion.

142 The seigneurial residence

152.1 Research on the evolution of the residential function of the castle keep in the Lyonnais from the xiith to xvth centuries
J.‑O. Guilhot

16Within the framework of the estates of the Episcopat of Lyon, research has been carried out on a certain number of architectural characteristics which could define the residential function of these forteresses : living area, openings, elements of comfort etc. Archaeological analysis has enabled their evolution to be measured.

172.2 Forteresses and residences : the castles of Trévoux, Fallavier and Saint‑Georges d’Esperanche
J.‑F. Reynaud

18With the help of three monuments chosen amongst the most important princely forteresses of the Middle‑Ages in the region, the author outlines elements which are orientated more specially towards a concern for comfort and symbolic aesthetics.

192.3 Castle sanctuaries : from the useful to the ostentatious
B. Mandy

20The chapel is a most important element in a castle in so much that it is a seat of power. Based on an inventory of places of worship situated in the castles of the Rhone‑Alpes, the author studies the evolution of their function using such criteria as size, position, dedication and association with the parish.

212.4 The Keep of Bressieux : defensive of residential function ?
Y. Harlé‑Sambet

22By the use of detailed architectural and archaeological analysis, it is possible to evaluate to which measure the builders and possessors of the castle have conciliated the necessities of an effective military defence system to that of seigneurial life‑style adapted to a powerful aristocratic lineage.

232.5 Forteresses or residences ? The castles of the Counts of Forez from l’Armorial de Revel
F. Piponnier

24The study of castles in the Rhône‑Alpes region has an exceptional source, a collection of illustrated representations of castles of the Auvergne and of the Forez dating from the XVth century. An attempt has been made to create a typology of castles from this document based on an analysis of the different structures.

252.6 From the motte to seigneurial residence : the example of Rochefort‑en‑Valdaine (Drome), XIth‑XVIth centuries
M. Bois

26Archaeological enquiry has brought to light on the same site the evolution of technical solutions to a castle structure in relation to the different phases representing a long period of occupation. The determining point here is the passage from an elementary ditched defence to a complex stone built forteress.

272.7 From forteress to the Palace of Apollidon : life in Grignan Castle from the XVth to XVIIIth centuries
C. Trézin

28From medieval documents, archaeological excavations, and above all inventories of the XVth and XVIIIth centuries, the author outlines the spectacular changes affecting the forteress constructed by the Adhémar, transforming it into a palace which enchanted the comtesse de Sévigné and describes the radical changes in the manner in which it was occupied.

292.8 Lords and lordships of the Vuache
F. Raynaud

30The complementary nature of the written and archaeological sources for the complete study of a castle site is well illustrated by this example of rural lordship of the Savoie which has been analysed in all its economic and architectural components.

312.9 Mountain castles during the Xlllth and XIVth centuries : territorial organisation after lordship accounts
E. Sirot‑Chalmin

32Situated within the framework of the ancient county of Genève, the dominating characters of a group of castle sites mentioned in medieval accounts are presented here. Common characteristics such as the topographical situation, structural and interior organisation are discussed.

333 Comparisons : neighbouring and distant estates

343.1 The wooden furniture of Savoyard castles of the former Pays de Vaud and Chablais region between 1360 and 1450
D. de Raemy

35Certain series of medieval documentary sources such as accounts of lordships offer for study precise information on the residential function of castles. The example of furniture has been chosen here for which it has been possible to present the forms, material, function and position in the different rooms of the living quarters.

363.2 Rochebaron Castle : the study of the round tower and the chapel
C. Beyssac

37Outlined here is a detailed study of one of the most important castles of the Forez during the Middle‑Ages. The architectural and archaeological analysis has permitted precisions to be made on the construction phases in which the organisation of the different improvements that witness the difficulties of reconciling the necessities of defence and residence.

383.3 Remarks on some elements concerning comfort in Alsacian castles
B. Metz (GAMA)

39Chosen as an area of comparison, Alsace offers a good example because of the number of remains still conserved and the amount of research carried out. It is the total of the architectural elements which belong to the notion of comfort which are passed here under revue.

403.4 The garrisons of rural castles at the beginning of the XIVth century
P. Guichard

41Several documents of the aragon concern the concession of royal castles to the alcaides, where visits by royal officers show that rural forteresses of important size were not often occupied, several years after the reconquest of the kingdom of Valence, than by a garrison of several men.

423.5 The first residential castles of Great Poland
T. Poklewski

43The castles constructed in Great Poland during the XIVth century, either at royal initiative or by powerful noble families, are constructed as a rational reply to the necessities of defence, administration of power, aristocratic residence and the administration of estates.


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