„Špýcharový“ dům – pokus o definici
A "cabin" house - an attempt at a definition

Author(s): Jiří Škabrada
Subject(s): Cultural history, Architecture, Middle Ages, Rural and urban sociology
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Czechia; rural house; Middle Ages; composition of rooms; high living room; heating; smoke;
Summary/Abstract: A short essay with an attempt to define the above term represents a summary of a longer paper that – in the light of contemporary knowledge – tried to assort the opinions relating to a phenomenon introduced into the professional literature by Václav Mencl. He presented this phenomenon in a suggestive and non-historical manner, although it was Lubor Niederle long time ago who had indicated the way leading to the correct understanding of such a structure. Recently, with regards to the above explanation, factual arguments have been given about the influence of fume-hood heating on the layout of a habitable room (height) as well as about the probably colonization origin of the three-part arrangement of a traditional rural house. Because of this, the “granary-style” house becomes indeed a common type of the medieval rural house with its well-understandable function.

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