A Day at Home in Early Modern England: Material Culture and Domestic Life, 1500-1700 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300195019)

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. 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 characterised their daily existence.

Published in association with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Author: Tara Hamling, Catherine Richardson
ISBN-10: 030019501X
ISBN-13: 9780300195019
Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre
Language: English
Published: 11/07/2017
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.70lbs
Size: 10.30h x 7.70w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2018