This book is about the objects people owned and how they used them.
Twenty-three specially written essays investigate the type of
things that might have been considered 'everyday objects' in the
medieval and early modern periods, and how they help us to
understand the daily lives of those individuals for whom few other
types of evidence survive - for instance people of lower status and
women of all status groups. Everyday Objects presents new research
by specialists from a range of disciplines to assess what the study
of material culture can contribute to our understanding of medieval
and early modern societies. Extending and developing key debates in
the study of the everyday, the chapters provide analysis of such
things as ceramics, illustrated manuscripts, pins, handbells,
carved chimneypieces, clothing, drinking vessels, bagpipes,
paintings, shoes, religious icons and the built fabric of domestic
houses and guild halls. These things are examined in relation to
central themes of pre-modern history; for instance gender,
identity, space, morality, skill, value, ritual, use, belief,
public and private behaviour, continental influence, materiality,
emotion, technical innovation, status, competition and social
mobility. This book offers both a collection of new research by a
diverse range of specialists and a source book of current
methodological approaches for the study of pre-modern material
culture. The multi-disciplinary analysis of these 'everyday
objects' by archaeologists, art historians, literary scholars,
historians, conservators and museum practitioners provides a
snapshot of current methodological approaches within the
humanities. Although analysis of material culture has become an
increasingly important aspect of the study of the past, previous
research in this area has often remained confined to
subject-specific boundaries. This book will therefore be an
invaluable resource for researchers and students interested in
learning about important new work which demonstrates the potential
of material culture study to cut across traditional
historiographies and disciplinary boundaries and access the lived
experience of individuals in the past.
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