The repair and maintenance of buildings in a 15th-century rural seigneury The example of the castellany of Talmont (Vendée region)

The medieval accounts of the châtellenie de Talmont, dating from the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, have been the subject of an in-depth study on the organization of building sites and the economy of construction at the end of the Middle Ages. These maintenance and repair accounts, kept in the records of the châtellenie, compared with archaeological data, have enable a detailed inquiry into the construction sector in this seigneurie of coastal Poitou at the end of the Middle Ages.