A cultural history of the home in the Renaissance
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A cultural history of the home in the Renaissance
（The cultural histories series, . A cultural history of the home / general editor,
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021
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In the Renaissance
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Set ISBN for subseries: 9781472584410
Bibliography: p. [201]-225
Includes index
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Description
This volume addresses the relationship between people and their homes in Christian areas of Western Europe in the Renaissance, traced from the late fourteenth century to around 1650. The two centuries after 1450 were characterised by a cluster of interrelated forces that led to significant changes in the material, social, cultural, economic and political landscape. The essays in the volume vary in their geographical focus of study and disciplinary approach but taken together they try to uncover the impact of these changes on how people used, thought and felt about their homes in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They try to understand what home meant - or if home even existed as a concept- for the people and the places they discuss. They also consider ways in which gender, status, age and geography contributed to different meanings of home, both as an idea and as a place to live.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The Meaning of Home
2. Family and Household
3. The House
4. Furniture and Furnishings
5. Home and Work
6. Gender and Home
7. Hospitality and Home
8. Religion and Home
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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