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Connecting Gien Castle to its Landscape: Faunal, Environmental and Buildings Analyses (Loiret, France)
Christophe PerraultGaëtan JouaninAlys Vaughan-williamsQuentin BorderieMélinda BizriSabrina Savesubject
010506 paleontologyArcheologyHistoryRiver LoireHistory[SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and PrehistoryGeography Planning and DevelopmentCultural management01 natural sciencesArchitectural heritage0601 history and archaeologycultural management0105 earth and related environmental sciencesNature and Landscape Conservation[SHS.ARCHI]Humanities and Social Sciences/Architecture space management060102 archaeologyNational museum06 humanities and the arts[SHS.ART]Humanities and Social Sciences/Art and art historyArchaeology[SDE.ES]Environmental Sciences/Environmental and Societyearly and late middle ageCastle and town[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology[SHS.HIST]Humanities and Social Sciences/Historylandscape resourcesdescription
International audience; Gien castle is a listed monument of French architectural heritage. Today it houses the National Museum of Hunting and its collection. Organised visits to the site have traditionally lacked any clear mention of the castle’s historical background. Recently, however, archaeological excavations and building analysis in 2011–2015 produced a wealth of new knowledge about the castle’s medieval origins and history, and about its relationship to its landscape. During the ninth and tenth centuries and then in the fifteenth century the castle occupied a strategically exceptional position reflecting the connection with its environment, notably the strong connection between the castle settlement and the River Loire. These new readings of Gien’s past landscapes diverge from the present-day identity of the castle as the ‘National Museum of Hunting’, and new connections need to be made.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-22 |