THE SEIGNURIAL HALL and chamber have been assumed, in both Britain and Ireland, to be typically located in the only building to generally survive on medieval residential sites. In England this idea has seen some revision, but in Ireland there has been little recent scholarship on medieval residential spaces. As a consequence, the term ‘hall-house’ is still used by Irish scholars as a label for some two-storey, 13th-century buildings, providing both a description and interpretation. The inference is that these buildings acted as both halls and elite residences at the same time during the High to Late Middle Ages. This contradicts what we know of the complex social codes of the time. Drawing on new empirical research, this article challenges the ‘hall-house’ classification, and explores different ways in which the spaces of these Irish medieval buildings can be better understood.

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理解“大厅”：13 世纪爱尔兰的领主建筑辩论

在英国和爱尔兰，SEIGNRIAL HALL 和 Chamber 被假定通常位于唯一一座在中世纪住宅区普遍存在的建筑物中。在英格兰，这个想法已经有了一些修改，但在爱尔兰，最近几乎没有关于中世纪住宅空间的学术研究。因此，爱尔兰学者仍然使用“大厅”一词作为一些两层楼的 13 世纪建筑的标签，提供描述和解释。推论是这些建筑在中世纪晚期至晚期同时作为大厅和精英住宅。这与我们所知道的当时复杂的社会规范相矛盾。本文借鉴新的实证研究，挑战了“大厅”分类，