| Title | Chapter 5. The Moving Manors and Adaptation in Sixteenth-Century Denmark |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Sarah Kerr(author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.63308/63881023874820.ch05 |
| Landing page | https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/2025/05/02/nordicclimatehistories/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.en |
| Copyright | Sarah Kerr |
| Publisher | The White Horse Press |
| Published on | 2025-08-15 |
| Long abstract | Early modern Denmark experienced unusual climatic variation, resulting in a catastrophic storm surge in 1593 at Nørre Vosborg manor in the peninsula of Jutland. Nørre Vosborg is a site comprising four late medieval and early modern manor houses, referred to as Vosborgs 1–4. Using the architecture and archae- ological remains from surveys and excavations, the four manor houses will be discussed in relation to adaptation and resilience. It is established that Vosborg 1 and 2 were impacted by the 1593 storm surge. Vosborg 1 was replaced by Vosborg 3 approximately 900 metres inland after it sustained devastating flooding and damage, at the turn of the seventeenth century. Vosborg 2 was also damaged by the same environmental event, yet some building material was rescued and reused to create Vosborg 4. It will be suggested that this demonstrates evidence of historic adaptation and resilience to an environmental event. |
| Page range | pp. 123–146 |
| Print length | 24 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
| Media | 7 illustrations |
Sarah Kerr is a lecturer in archaeology and a member of the Radical Humanities Laboratory, University College Cork, Ireland. She obtained her Ph.D. from Queen’s University Belfast, UK, and held Postdoctoral Fellowships at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, before she started teaching archaeology and heritage at The University of Sheffield, UK. She held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellowship at Aarhus University, Denmark, before joining UCC in September 2023. She is a medieval archaeologist and heritage specialist, interested primarily in the built environment and how buildings were the products of social norms and expectations and how, in return, they were agents that shaped everyday life. Her second monograph, Late Medieval Lodging Ranges: The Architecture of Identity, Power and Space, was published by The Boydell Press in 2023.