以往对这一主题有过著述的历史学家,倾向于对农民的住房条件持极低的论断,“几乎不可能比简陋的窝棚(hut)更好”便是一说。某部被广为阅读的教科书称,“房屋是简陋的……大部分(房屋)很小,只有一两个供人和牲畜使用的房间”。(2)这些印象源于考古学家,他们曾在某个村庄遗址上发现由“破烂的木材”建造的“简陋”、“不结实”的房屋,由此推断农民既缺乏材料,也没有建造更坚固 Historians historically writing on this subject tended to hold a very low assertion of the housing conditions of peasants, and “it is almost impossible to be better than a shabby hut.” A widely read textbook states that “houses are rudimentary ... most (houses) are small and have only one or two rooms for people and livestock.” (2) These impressions originated from archaeologists who had found “simple”, “unstructured” houses built of “tattered wood” at a village site, and concluded that peasants were both Lack of material, nor construction stronger