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Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London

- Consumption and Domesticity After the Plague
Af: Katherine L. French Engelsk Hardback

Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London

- Consumption and Domesticity After the Plague
Af: Katherine L. French Engelsk Hardback
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The Black Death that arrived in the spring of 1348 eventually killed nearly half of England''s population. In its long aftermath, wages in London rose in response to labor shortages, many survivors moved into larger quarters in the depopulated city, and people in general spent more money on food, clothing, and household furnishings than they had before. Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London looks at how this increased consumption reconfigured long-held gender roles and changed the domestic lives of London''s merchants and artisans for years to come.
Grounding her analysis in both the study of surviving household artifacts and extensive archival research, Katherine L. French examines the accommodations that Londoners made to their bigger houses and the increasing number of possessions these contained. The changes in material circumstance reshaped domestic hierarchies and produced new routines and expectations. Recognizing that the greater number of possessions required a different kind of management and care, French puts housework and gender at the center of her study. Historically, the task of managing bodies and things and the dirt and chaos they create has been unproblematically defined as women''s work. Housework, however, is neither timeless nor ahistorical, and French traces a major shift in women''s household responsibilities to the arrival and gendering of new possessions and the creation of new household spaces in the decades after the plague.

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The Black Death that arrived in the spring of 1348 eventually killed nearly half of England''s population. In its long aftermath, wages in London rose in response to labor shortages, many survivors moved into larger quarters in the depopulated city, and people in general spent more money on food, clothing, and household furnishings than they had before. Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London looks at how this increased consumption reconfigured long-held gender roles and changed the domestic lives of London''s merchants and artisans for years to come.
Grounding her analysis in both the study of surviving household artifacts and extensive archival research, Katherine L. French examines the accommodations that Londoners made to their bigger houses and the increasing number of possessions these contained. The changes in material circumstance reshaped domestic hierarchies and produced new routines and expectations. Recognizing that the greater number of possessions required a different kind of management and care, French puts housework and gender at the center of her study. Historically, the task of managing bodies and things and the dirt and chaos they create has been unproblematically defined as women''s work. Housework, however, is neither timeless nor ahistorical, and French traces a major shift in women''s household responsibilities to the arrival and gendering of new possessions and the creation of new household spaces in the decades after the plague.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 416
ISBN-13: 9780812253054
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0812253051
Kategori: England
Udg. Dato: 19 okt 2021
Længde: 31mm
Bredde: 242mm
Højde: 166mm
Forlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
Oplagsdato: 19 okt 2021
Forfatter(e): Katherine L. French
Forfatter(e) Katherine L. French


Kategori England


ISBN-13 9780812253054


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 416


Udgave


Længde 31mm


Bredde 242mm


Højde 166mm


Udg. Dato 19 okt 2021


Oplagsdato 19 okt 2021


Forlag University of Pennsylvania Press