Håkonshallen 750 years
Subtitle: royal residence and national monument
By: Øystein Hellesøe Brekke and Geir Atle Ersland (eds.).
Publisher: Dreyers forlag
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oslo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9788282650632
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Palaces; Congresses; History; Castles; Medieval Architecture; National monuments; Buildings, structures; Håkonshallen (Bergenhuis festning, Bergen, Norway)
Notes: Papers from a conference at Bryggens Museum 8-9 September 2011.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface --; title: An introduction to King Håkon's Hall  -- Anne Ågotnes; title: King Håkon's Hall and its authenticity  -- Alf Tore Hommedal; title: Fit for a king: Håkonshallen and contemporary royal residences  -- Zoë Opačić; title: The castle as a military stronghold 1100-1700  -- Geir Atle Ersland; title: The residents of Håkonshallen  -- Sverre Bagge; title: The political centre of the high medieval Norwegian kingdom  -- Knut Helle; title: Capital cities in medieval Europe  -- Derek Keene; title: Some aspects of nineteenth- and twentieth- century restoration ideas and practices  -- Marco Trebbi; title: Aspects of Norwegian national romanticism in its European context  -- David M. Wilson; title: Courtesy and treachery -- C. Stephen Jaeger.