La capacité d’adaptation – ou l’inadaptation – du lignage de Briouze aux différentes formes de mobilités, question centrale de cet ouvrage, transparaît dans leur aptitude à affronter et surmonter les situations de crise.

Against the scholarly tendency to treat architectural disegno in highly intellectualized terms, the essays collected in this volume offer a new perspective on this early modern practice, by reinserting it into the messy Lebenswelten of the architectural workshop and the building site.

This volume approaches the theme of ‘urban literacy’ in the Nordic Middle Ages from various angles of research, including history, archaeology, philology, and runology.