Medieval domesticity
Subtitle: home, housing and household in medieval England
By: edited by Maryanne Kowaleski and P.J.P. Goldberg.
Contributors: Kowaleski, Maryanne.; Goldberg, P. J. P., 1958-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780521899208
Subjects: Households -- England -- History -- To 1500; Households -- England -- Sociological aspects; Home -- England -- History -- To 1500; England -- Social life and customs -- 1066-1485; England -- Social conditions -- 1066-1485
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-309) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: Medieval domesticity: home, housing and household  -- P.J.P. Goldberg and Maryanne Kowaleski -- "Burgeis" domesticity in late-medieval England / -- Felicity Riddy; title: Buttery and pantry and their antecedents: idea and architecture in the English medieval house  -- Mark Gardiner; title: Building domesticity in the city: English urban housing before the Black Death  -- Sarah Rees Jones; title: Urban and rural houses and households in the late Middle Ages: a case study from Yorkshire  -- Jane Grenville; title: The fashioning of bourgeois domesticity in later medieval England: a material culture perspective  -- P.J.P. Goldberg; title: Nuns at home: the domesticity of sacred space  -- Marilyn Oliva; title: "Which may be said to be her own": widows and goods in late-medieval England  -- Janet S. Loengard; title: Weeping for the virtuous wife: laymen, affective piety, and Chaucer's "Clerk's tale"  -- Nicole Nolan Sidhu; title: 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; title: Fragments of (Have your) desire: Brome women at play  -- Nicola McDonald; title: Home visits: Mary, Elizabeth, Margery Kempe and the feast of the Visitation -- Mary C. Erler.