What did 'home' mean to men and women in the period 1200–1500? This volume explores the many cultural, material and ideological dimensions of the concept of domesticity. Leading scholars examine not only the material cultures of domesticity, gender, and power relations within the household, but also how they were envisioned in texts, images, objects and architecture. Many of the essays argue that England witnessed the emergence of a distinctive bourgeois ideology of domesticity during the late Middle Ages. But the volume also contends that, although the world of the great lord was far removed from that of the artisan or peasant, these social groups all occupied physical structures that constituted homes in which people were drawn together by ties of kinship, service or neighbourliness. This pioneering study will appeal to scholars of medieval English society, literature and culture.
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Medieval Domesticity: Home, Housing and Household in Medieval England
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"Kowaleski's and Goldberg's fine book demonstrates how essential the mundane is to a better understanding of medieval identities." -Sara M. Butler, Canadian Journal of History
Published date: Mar 03, 2011
Language: English
No. of Pages: 332
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521174121
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