RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Peřina, Ivan
T1 Stronghold in Útěchovice. On research of a medieval smoky room or already a living room
JF Průzkumy památek
YR 2018
VO 25
IS 1
SP 3
OP 24
DO 10.56112/pp.2018.1.02
UL https://pruzkumypamatek.cz/en/artkey/prp-201801-0002.php
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.