Medieval Domesticity Home, Housing and Household in Medieval England [Hardcover]

Leading scholars shed new light on what 'home' meant to men and women in medieval England.What did home mean to men and women in the period 12001500? This volume explores the concept of domesticity, and addresses its many cultural, material and ideological dimensions. Leading scholars argue that, during this period, England witnessed the emergence of a distinctive bourgeois ideology of domesticity.What did home mean to men and women in the period 12001500? This volume explores the concept of domesticity, and addresses its many cultural, material and ideological dimensions. Leading scholars argue that, during this period, England witnessed the emergence of a distinctive bourgeois ideology of domesticity.What did 'home' mean to men and women in the period 12001500? 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.1. Introduction P. J. P. Goldberg and Maryanne Kowaleski; 2. 'Burgeis' domesticity in late medieval England Felicity Riddy; 3. Buttery and pantry, and their antecedents: idea and architecture in the English medieval house Mark Gardiner; 4. Building domesticity in the city: English urban housing before the Black Death Sarah Rees Jones; 5. Urban and rural houses and households in the laló½