Item Number: 145099 Title: A Day at Home in Early Modern England : Material Culture and Domestic Life, 1500-1700 Author: Hamling, Tara ; Catherine Richardson Price: Not Available ISBN: 9780300195019 Description: London and New Haven: Yale University Press, in association with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2017. 26cm., hardcover, 320pp., 280 color illus. Summary: This fascinating book offers the first sustained investigation of the complex relationship between the middle class 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 behavior of relatively ordinary people. With a multidisciplinary approach that takes both extant objects and documentary sources into consideration, Tara Hamling and Catherine Richardson recreate the layered complexity of lived household experience and explore how a family’s investment in rooms, decoration, possessions, and provisions served to define not only their status, but the social, commercial, and religious concerns that characterized their daily existence.
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