A day at home in early modern England : material culture and domestic life, 1500-1700 /
This fascinating book offers the first sustained investigation of the complex relationship between the middling sort and their domestic space in the tumultuous, rapidly changing culture of early modern England. Presented in an innovative and engaging narrative form that follows the pattern of a typi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven, Connecticut :
Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press,
[2017]
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| Summary: | This fascinating book offers the first sustained investigation of the complex relationship between the middling sort and their domestic space in the tumultuous, rapidly changing culture of early modern England. Presented in an innovative and engaging narrative form that follows the pattern of a typical day from early morning through the middle of the night, A Day at Home in Early Modern England examines the profound influence that the domestic material environment had on structuring and expressing modes of thought and behaviour of relatively ordinary people. With a multidisciplinary approach that takes both extant objects and documentary sources into consideration, Tara Hamling and Catherine Richardson recreate the layered complexity of lived household experience and explore how a family's investment in rooms, decoration, possessions and provisions served to define not only their status, but the social, commercial and religious concerns that haracterised their daily existence. |
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| Physical Description: | 311 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780300195019 030019501X |