Medieval Living

Anyone interested in constructing Medieval buildings would benefit by looking at this. While the site is contemporary in much of its discussions, the concepts are surely based on centuries of timberframing experience. The National Center for Preservation Technology and Training out of Natchitoches, Louisiana, has some very good resoures on its site. Of particular interest were some pdf files of TIMBER FRAMING: Journal of the Timber Framers Guild. Some of the articles include how to raise the structure - modern techniques to be sure, but useful for anyone wanting to lift timbers into place and so on. Another deals with using geometry to properly calculate the angles needed to join various roof members together. Complicated but very worth looking at! A third article deals with various types of joinery. Although the focus is on early-American structures, the joinery would be very similary to that found in Medieval structures. The diagrams in the text are extremely well done, and the discussions accompanying each are very well written. In general, some excellent materials for anyone contemplating building a timberframed structure. I hope you find these articles useful and worth reading!