A day at home in early modern England : material culture and domestic life, 1500-1700 / Tara Hamling & Catherine Richardson.

By: Hamling, Tara [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 311 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780300195019 (cl : alk. paper)Subject(s): Material culture -- England -- History | Households -- England -- History | England -- Social life and customs -- 16th century | England -- Social life and customs -- 17th century | England -- Social conditions -- 16th century | England -- Social conditions -- 17th centuryDDC classification: 306.0942 LOC classification: GN585.E54 | H36 2017Summary: BRITISH & IRISH HISTORY. 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

BRITISH & IRISH HISTORY. 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.

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