Inhalt -- INTRODUCTION -- Wood in the Architecture of Europe and Russia: National Specifics and International Research -- 1. HISTORIC WOODEN ARCHITECTURE IN EUROPE AND RUSSIA: ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE AND STUDY -- Wooden Churches in Viking and Medieval Norway: Two Geometric and Static Strategies -- Timber Churches in Medieval England: A Preliminary Study -- The Archaeological Study of the Wooden Religious Architecture of Medieval Novgorod -- 2. WRITTEN EVIDENCE ON MEDIEVAL WOODEN ARCHITECTURE -- Viking and Medieval Wooden Churches in Norway as Described in Contemporary Texts -- Written Sources for English Medieval Timber Architecture -- Archives and Historical Documents in Contemporary Research of the Wooden Architecture of the Russian North -- 3. THE ARCHITECTURAL OBJECT AS PRIMARY HISTORICAL EVIDENCE -- Stave Church Research and the Norwegian Stave Church Programme: New Findings - New Questions -- Traditional Structures in Russian Wooden Architecture: Technical Aspects -- Wooden Elements in the Stone Architecture of Medieval Novgorod -- Aspects of Bohemian and Swedish Wooden Bell Towers -- 4. EMPIRICAL STUDY FOR PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION: EXPERIENCE AND PERSPECTIVES -- The Restoration of Wooden Architectural Monuments in Russia. Contemporary Methods and Approaches -- The Church of the Transfiguration at Kizhi Pogost - Some Reflections on the Building and its Restoration -- CONCLUSION -- Historic Wooden Architecture in Europe and Russia: Different Approaches to New Knowledge -- AUTHOR INFORMATION / APPENDIX / IMPRINT.