Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London: Consumption and Domesticity After the Plague by French, Katherine L.
Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London: Consumption and Domesticity After the Plague by French, Katherine L.

Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London: Consumption and Domesticity After the Plague

The Black Death that arrived in the spring of 1348 eventually killed nearly half of England's population....
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Author: Katherine L. French
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Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London: Consumption and Domesticity After the Plague by French, Katherine L.

Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London: Consumption and Domesticity After the Plague

€128,53
Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London: Consumption and Domesticity After the Plague by French, Katherine L.

Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London: Consumption and Domesticity After the Plague

€128,53
Author: Katherine L. French
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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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.

Author: Katherine L. French
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 10/19/2021
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.00w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780812253054


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About the Author
Katherine L. French is J. Frederick Hoffman Professor of History at the University of Michigan and author of The People of the Parish: Community Life in a Late Medieval English Diocese and The Good Women of the Parish: Gender and Religion After the Black Death, both published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.
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