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Medieval domesticity : home, housing and household in medieval England / edited by Maryanne Kowaleski and P.J.P. Goldberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Households--England--History--To 1500.
- Households.
- Households--England--Sociological aspects.
- Home--England--History--To 1500.
- Home.
- History.
- England--Social life and customs--1066-1485.
- England.
- Manners and customs.
- England--Social conditions--1066-1485.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 317 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- Introduction. Medieval domesticity: home, housing and household / P.J.P. Goldberg and Maryanne Kowaleski
- "Burgeis" domesticity in late-medieval England / Felicity Riddy
- Buttery and pantry and their antecedents: idea and architecture in the English medieval house / Mark Gardiner
- Building domesticity in the city: English urban housing before the Black Death / Sarah Rees Jones
- Urban and rural houses and households in the late Middle Ages: a case study from Yorkshire / Jane Grenville
- The fashioning of bourgeois domesticity in later medieval England: a material culture perspective / P.J.P. Goldberg
- Nuns at home: the domesticity of sacred space / Marilyn Oliva
- "Which may be said to be her own": widows and goods in late-medieval England / Janet S. Loengard
- Weeping for the virtuous wife: laymen, affective piety, and Chaucer's "Clerk's tale" / Nicole Nolan Sidhu
- On the sadness of not being a bird: late-medieval marriage ideologies and the figure of Abraham in William Langland's Piers Plowman / Isabel Davis
- Fragments of (Have your) desire: Brome women at play / Nicola McDonald
- Home visits: Mary, Elizabeth, Margery Kempe and the feast of the Visitation / Mary C. Erler.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-309) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0521899206
- 9780521899208
- OCLC:
- 221147640
- Publisher Number:
- 99946472460
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