Medieval Domesticity - Home, Housing and Household in Medieval England (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2008
First published:	2008
Editors:	Maryanne Kowaleski • P.J.P. Goldberg
Dimensions:	234 x 157 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	332
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-89920-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 500 to 1500 Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > British & Irish history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > World history > 500 to 1500
LSN:	0-521-89920-6
Barcode:	9780521899208

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