PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Peřina, Ivan
TI  - Stronghold in Útěchovice. On research of a medieval smoky room or already a living room
DP  - 2018 Jun 15
TA  - Průzkumy památek
PG  - 3--24
VI  - 25
IP  - 1
AID - 10.56112/pp.2018.1.02
IS  - 12121487
AB  - A triangular set of windows with small upper openings was identified in the Útěchovice Stronghold (Česká Lípa region) along with an imprint of a wooden vault frontage. These discoveries as well as other documented findings remarkably shift the current knowledge about the appearance of a medieval living room. Later analogies raise a question when during the Middle Ages the living space changed from a smoky room into a living room where the stove heat could circulate and ventilate the room through an upper opening and which could also conduct combustion products away from light.