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Beds and Chambers in Late Medieval England - Readings, Representations and Realities (Hardcover)
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Beds and Chambers in Late Medieval England - Readings, Representations and Realities (Hardcover)
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First full-length interdisciplinary study of the effect of these
everyday surroundings on literature, culture and the collective
consciousness of the late middle ages. The bed, and the chamber
which contained it, was something of a cultural and social
phenomenon in late-medieval England. Their introduction into some
aristocratic and bourgeois households captured the imagination of
late-medievalEnglish society. The bed and chamber stood for much
more than simply a place to rest one's head: they were symbols of
authority, unparalleled spaces of intimacy, sanctuaries both for
the powerless and the powerful. This change inphysical domestic
space shaped the ways in which people thought about less tangible
concepts such as gender politics, communication, God, sex and
emotions. Furthermore, the practical uses of beds and chambers
shaped and were shaped by artistic and literary production. This
volume offers the first interdisciplinary study of the cultural
meanings of beds and chambers in late-medieval England. It draws on
a vast array of literary, pragmatic and visual sources, including
romances, saints' lives, lyrics, plays, wills, probate inventories,
letters, church and civil court documents, manuscript illumination
and physical objects, to shed new light on the ways in which beds
and chambersfunctioned as both physical and conceptual spaces.
Hollie L.S. Morgan is a Research Fellow in the School of History
and Heritage, University of Lincoln.
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