De Observant, Amersfoort
The Netherlands |
17-18 August, 2013 |
Speakers and Papers
Saturday, August 17
Taco Hermans: Towerhouse or towercastle? Questions about the name, the function and the typology
Gillian Eadie: ‘On examination no two are found to be exactly alike’; The Tower House as a building ‘type’
Maria Legut-Pintal: From dukes to knights - towerhouse as a type of residence in medieval Silesia, Poland
Richard Oram: Towers of ‘the Universal Standard Type’ and National Identity Expressed in Stone: the Invention of the Scottish Tower-House as National Icon
Jan van Doesburg: Towering ambition
Przemyslaw Nocun: Development of towerhouses on the areas of different medieval and early modern states on the territory of today Poland
Kate Buchanan: Remains and Representations: Identifying the 16th c. Towerhouse in Angus, Scotland
Sunday, August 18
Laurens Smals: The tower of Heenvliet: an interpretation of its architecture and function
Edwin Orsel: The Gravensteen, a problematic towerhouse?
Rob Gruben: Groesbeek Castle, towerhouse or towercastle?
Pamela Marshall: The Romanesque donjon: a sustainable concept or a multitude of sins
Penny Dransart: The towerhouse as fortalice: nineteenth-century views of post-Reformation recusancy in Scotland
Bas Aarts: Polygonal residential towers in the Low Countries and their symbolism
Taco Hermans: Towerhouse or towercastle? Questions about the name, the function and the typology
Gillian Eadie: ‘On examination no two are found to be exactly alike’; The Tower House as a building ‘type’
Maria Legut-Pintal: From dukes to knights - towerhouse as a type of residence in medieval Silesia, Poland
Richard Oram: Towers of ‘the Universal Standard Type’ and National Identity Expressed in Stone: the Invention of the Scottish Tower-House as National Icon
Jan van Doesburg: Towering ambition
Przemyslaw Nocun: Development of towerhouses on the areas of different medieval and early modern states on the territory of today Poland
Kate Buchanan: Remains and Representations: Identifying the 16th c. Towerhouse in Angus, Scotland
Sunday, August 18
Laurens Smals: The tower of Heenvliet: an interpretation of its architecture and function
Edwin Orsel: The Gravensteen, a problematic towerhouse?
Rob Gruben: Groesbeek Castle, towerhouse or towercastle?
Pamela Marshall: The Romanesque donjon: a sustainable concept or a multitude of sins
Penny Dransart: The towerhouse as fortalice: nineteenth-century views of post-Reformation recusancy in Scotland
Bas Aarts: Polygonal residential towers in the Low Countries and their symbolism