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This volume addresses the relationship between people and their
homes in Christian areas of Western Europe in the Renaissance,
traced from the late fourteenth century to around 1650. The two
centuries after 1450 were characterised by a cluster of
interrelated forces that led to significant changes in the
material, social, cultural, economic and political landscape. The
essays in the volume vary in their geographical focus of study and
disciplinary approach but taken together they try to uncover the
impact of these changes on how people used, thought and felt about
their homes in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They try to
understand what home meant - or if home even existed as a concept-
for the people and the places they discuss. They also consider ways
in which gender, status, age and geography contributed to different
meanings of home, both as an idea and as a place to live.
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Women and the Land, 1500-1900 (Paperback)
Amanda L. Capern, Briony Mcdonagh, Jennifer Aston; Contributions by Amanda Flather, Amanda L. Capern, …
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Women and the Land examines English women's legal rights to land
and the reality and consequences of their land ownership over four
centuries. Women and the Land examines the pre-history of gendered
property relations in England, focusing on the four-hundred-year
period between roughly 1500 and 1900. More specifically, the book
is about how gender shaped opportunities for and experiences of
owning property, particularly for women. The focus is especially on
land, residential buildings and commercial property, but livestock,
common and personal property also feature. This project is drivenby
an explicitly feminist agenda: the contributors directly challenge
the idea that the existence of patriarchal property relations -
including the doctrine of coverture and gendered inheritance
practices - meant that property wasconcentrated in exclusively male
hands. Here a very different story is told: of significant levels
of female landownership and how women's desire to own property and
manage its profits led to emotional attachments to land and a
willingness and determination to fight for the right to legal
title. Altogether, the chapters in this volume offer new histories
of land and property which hold women's lives as their centre.
Presenting the very latest qualitativeand quantitative research on
women's landownership, the book will be of interest to those
working in social, economic and cultural history, historical and
cultural geography, women's studies, gender studies and landscape
studies. AMANDA CAPERN is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Women's
History at the University of Hull. BRIONY MCDONAGH is Senior
Lecturer in Historical and Cultural Geography at the University of
Hull. JENNIFER ASTON is Senior Lecturer in Modern British History
at Northumbria University. CONTRIBUTORS: Jennifer Aston, Stephen
Bending, Amanda L. Capern, Janet Casson, Amy Erickson, Amanda
Flather, Joan Heggie, Jessica L. Malay, Briony McDonagh, Judith
Spicksley, Jon Stobart, Hannah Worthen
A Cultural History of the Home provides a comprehensive survey of
the domestic space from ancient times to the present. Spanning 2800
years, the six volumes explore how different cultures and societies
have established, developed and used the home. It reveals a great
deal about how people have lived day-to-day in a range of regions
and epochs by providing a historical focus on the location in which
they will have spent much of their time: the domestic space. 1. A
Cultural History of the Home in Antiquity (800 BCE - 800 CE) 2. A
Cultural History of the Home in the Medieval Age (800 - 1450) 3. A
Cultural History of the Home in the Renaissance (1450 - 1648) 4. A
Cultural History of the Home in the Age of Enlightenment (1648 -
1815) 5. A Cultural History of the Home in the Age of Empire (1815
- 1920) 6. A Cultural History of the Home in the Modern Age (1920 -
present) Each volume discusses the same themes in its chapters: 1.
The Meaning of the Home 2. Family and Household 3. The House 4.
Furniture and Furnishings 5. Home and Work 6. Gender and Home 7.
Hospitality and Home 8. Religion and Home This structure offers
readers a broad overview of a period within each volume or the
opportunity to follow a theme through history by reading the
relevant chapter across volumes. Generously illustrated, the full
six-volume set combines to present the most detailed survey
available on the home in history.
A nuanced re-evaluation of the ways in which gender affected the
use of physical space in early modern England. Space was not simply
a passive backdrop to a social system that had structural origins
elsewhere; it was vitally important for marking out and maintaining
the hierarchy that sustained social and gender order in sixteenth-
and seventeenth-century England. Gender had a considerable
influence on its use and organization; status and gender were
displayed physically and spatially every moment of the day, from a
person's place at table to the bed on which he orshe slept, in
places of work and recreation, in dress, gesture and modes of
address. Space was also the basis for the formation of gender
identities which were constantly contested and restructured, as
this book shows. Examining in turn domestic, social and sacred
spaces and the spatial division of labour in gender construction,
the author demonstrates how these could shift, and with them the
position and power of women. She shows that the
ideologicalassumption that all women are subject to all men is
flawed, and exposes the limitations of interpretations which rely
on the model and binary opposition of public/private, male/female,
to describe gender relations and their changes across the period,
thus offering a much more complex and picture than has hitherto
been perceived. The book will be essential reading not just for
historians of the family and of women, but for all those studying
early modern social history. AMANDA FLATHER is a lecturer in the
Department of History at the University of Essex.
A Cultural History of the Home provides a comprehensive survey of
the domestic space from ancient times to the present. Spanning 2800
years, the six volumes explore how different cultures and societies
have established, developed and used the home. It reveals a great
deal about how people have lived day-to-day in a range of regions
and epochs by providing a historical focus on the location in which
they will have spent much of their time: the domestic space. 1. A
Cultural History of the Home in Antiquity (800 BCE - 800 CE) 2. A
Cultural History of the Home in the Medieval Age (800 - 1450) 3. A
Cultural History of the Home in the Renaissance (1450 - 1648) 4. A
Cultural History of the Home in the Age of Enlightenment (1648 -
1815) 5. A Cultural History of the Home in the Age of Empire (1815
- 1920) 6. A Cultural History of the Home in the Modern Age (1920 -
present) Each volume discusses the same themes in its chapters: 1.
The Meaning of the Home 2. Family and Household 3. The House 4.
Furniture and Furnishings 5. Home and Work 6. Gender and Home 7.
Hospitality and Home 8. Religion and Home This structure offers
readers a broad overview of a period within each volume or the
opportunity to follow a theme through history by reading the
relevant chapter across volumes. Generously illustrated, the full
six-volume set combines to present the most detailed survey
available on the home in history.
An outstanding collection, bringing together some of the leading
historians of this period with some of the field's rising stars,
which examines key issues in popular politics, the negotiation of
power, strategies of legitimation,and the languages of politics.
One of the most notable currents in social, cultural and political
historiography is the interrogation of the categories of 'elite'
and 'popular' politics and their relationship to each other, as
well as the exploration of why andhow different sorts of people
engaged with politics and behaved politically. While such issues
are timeless, they hold a special importance for a society
experiencing rapid political and social change, like early modern
England.No one has done more to define these agendas for early
modern historians than John Walter. His work has been hugely
influential, and at its heart has been the analysis of the
political agency of ordinary people. The essays in thisvolume
engage with the central issues of Walter's work, ranging across the
politics of poverty, dearth and household, popular political
consciousness and practice more broadly, and religion and politics
during the English revolution. This outstanding collection,
bringing together some of the leading historians of this period
with some of the field's rising stars, will appeal to anyone
interested in the social, cultural and political history of early
modern England or issues of popular political consciousness and
behaviour more generally. MICHAEL J. BRADDICK is professor of
history at the University of Sheffield. PHIL WITHINGTON is
professor of history at the Universityof Sheffield. CONTRIBUTORS:
Michael J. Braddick, J. C. Davis, Amanda Flather, Steve Hindle,
Mark Knights, John Morrill, Alexandra Shepard, Paul Slack, Richard
M. Smith, Clodagh Tait, Keith Thomas, Phil Withington, Andy Wood,
Keith Wrightson.
This volume addresses the relationship between people and their
homes in Christian areas of Western Europe in the Renaissance,
traced from the late fourteenth century to around 1650. The two
centuries after 1450 were characterised by a cluster of
interrelated forces that led to significant changes in the
material, social, cultural, economic and political landscape. The
essays in the volume vary in their geographical focus of study and
disciplinary approach but taken together they try to uncover the
impact of these changes on how people used, thought and felt about
their homes in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They try to
understand what home meant – or if home even existed as a
concept– for the people and the places they discuss. They also
consider ways in which gender, status, age and geography
contributed to different meanings of home, both as an idea and as a
place to live.
A nuanced re-evaluation of the ways in which gender affected the
use of physical space in early modern England. Space was not simply
a passive backdrop to a social system that had structural origins
elsewhere; it was vitally important for marking out and maintaining
the hierarchy that sustained social and gender order in sixteenth-
and seventeenth-century England. Gender had a considerable
influence on its use and organization; status and gender were
displayed physically and spatially every moment of the day, from a
person's place at table to the bed on which he orshe slept, in
places of work and recreation, in dress, gesture and modes of
address. Space was also the basis for the formation of gender
identities which were constantly contested and restructured, as
this book shows.Examining in turn domestic, social and sacred
spaces and the spatial division of labour in gender construction,
the author demonstrates how these could shift, and with them the
position and power of women. She shows that the ideological
assumption that all women are subject to all men is flawed, and
exposes the limitations of interpretations which rely on the model
and binary opposition of public/private, male/female, to describe
gender relations and theirchanges across the period, thus offering
a much more complex and picture than has hitherto been perceived.
The book will be essential reading not just for historians of the
family and of women, but for all those studying early modern social
history. AMANDA FLATHER is a lecturer in the Department of History
at the University of Essex.
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