Author: George Benson (architect.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : York (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Later Medieval York
Author: George Benson (architect.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : York (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Building Craftsmen in Late Medieval York
Author: Heather SwansonPublisher: Borthwick Publications
ISBN: 9780900701580
Category : Artisans
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Medieval Domesticity
Author: Fordham University. Center for Medieval Studies. Annual ConferencePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521899206
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Leading scholars shed new light on what 'home' meant to men and women in medieval England.
Beds and Chambers in Late Medieval England
Author: Hollie L. S. MorganPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1903153719
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
First full-length interdisciplinary study of the effect of these everyday surroundings on literature, culture and the collective consciousness of the late middle ages. The bed, and the chamber which contained it, was something of a cultural and social phenomenon in late-medieval England. Their introduction into some aristocratic and bourgeois households captured the imagination of late-medievalEnglish society. The bed and chamber stood for much more than simply a place to rest one's head: they were symbols of authority, unparalleled spaces of intimacy, sanctuaries both for the powerless and the powerful. This change inphysical domestic space shaped the ways in which people thought about less tangible concepts such as gender politics, communication, God, sex and emotions. Furthermore, the practical uses of beds and chambers shaped and were shaped by artistic and literary production. This volume offers the first interdisciplinary study of the cultural meanings of beds and chambers in late-medieval England. It draws on a vast array of literary, pragmatic and visual sources, including romances, saints' lives, lyrics, plays, wills, probate inventories, letters, church and civil court documents, manuscript illumination and physical objects, to shed new light on the ways in which beds and chambersfunctioned as both physical and conceptual spaces. Hollie L.S. Morgan is a Research Fellow in the School of History and Heritage, University of Lincoln.
The Later Medieval City
Author: David NicholasPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317901878
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
The Later Medieval City, 1300-1500, the second part of David Nicholas's ambitious two-volume study of cities and city life in the Middle Ages, fully lives up to its splendid precursor, The Growth of the Medieval City. (Like that volume it is fully self-sufficient, though many readers will want to use the two as a continuum.) This book covers a much shorter period than the first. That traced the rise of the medieval European city system from late Antiquity to the early fourteenth century; this offers a portrait of the fully developed late medieval city in all its richness and complexity. David Nicholas begins with the economic and demographic realignments of the last two medieval centuries. These fostered urban growth, raising living standards and increasing demand for a growing range of urban manufactures. The hunger for imports and a shortage of coin led to sophisticated credit mechanisms that could only function through large cities. But, if these changes brought new opportunities to the wealthy, they also created a growing problem of urban poverty: violence became endemic in the later medieval city. Moreover, although more rebellions were sparked by taxes than by class conflict, class divisions were deepening. Most cities came to be governed by councils chosen from guild-members, and most guilds were dominated by merchants. The landowning elite that had dominated the early medieval cities of the first volume still retained its prestige, but its wealth was outstripped by the richer merchants; while craftsmen, who had little political influence, were further disadvantaged as access to the guilds became more restricted. The later medieval cities developed permanent bureaucracies providing a huge range of public services, and they were paid for by sophisticated systems of taxation and public borrowing. The survival of their fuller, richer records allow us not only to apply a more statistical approach, but also to get much closer, to the splendours and squalors of everyday city-life than was possible in the earlier volume. The book concludes with a set of vibrant chapters on women and children and religious minorities in the city, on education and culture, and on the tenor of ordinary urban existence. Like its predecessor, this book is massively, and vividly, documented. Its approach is interdisciplinary and comparative, and its examples and case studies are drawn from across Europe: from France, England, Germany, the Low Countries, Iberia and Italy, with briefer reviews of the urban experience elsewhere from Baltic to Balkans. The result is the most wide-ranging and up-to-date study of its multifaceted subject. It is a formidable achievement.
Socialising the Child in Late Medieval England
Author: Merridee L. BaileyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781903153765
Category : Child development
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
An investigation into a variety of texts providing guidance for teachers, parents, and children themselves.
Medieval Merchants
Author: Jennifer KermodePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521522748
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
An analysis of merchant lives in three northern British cities in the later middle ages.
Women and Parliament in Later Medieval England
Author: W. Mark OrmrodPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030452204
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
This Palgrave Pivot provides the first ever comprehensive consideration of the part played by women in the workings and business of the English Parliament in the later Middle Ages. Breaking new ground, this book considers all aspects of women’s access to the highest court of medieval England. Women were active supplicants to the Crown in Parliament, and sometimes appeared there in person to prosecute cases or make political demands. It explores the positions of women of varying rank, from queens to peasants, vis-à-vis this male institution, where they very occasionally appeared in person but were more usually represented by written petitions. A full analysis of these petitions and of the official records of parliament reveals that there were a number of issues on which women consistently pressed for changes in the law and its administration, and where the Commons and the Crown either championed or refused to support reform. Such is the concentration of petitions on the subjects of dower and rape that these may justifiably be termed ‘women’s issues’ in the medieval Parliament.
Resident Aliens in Later Medieval England
Author: Nicola McDonaldPublisher: Studies in European Urban Hist
ISBN: 9782503570549
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The essays collected in this volume identify and analyse the presence of immigrants in late medieval England. Drawing on unique evidence from the alien subsidies collected in England between 1440 and 1487 and other newly accessible archival resources, and deploying a wide range of historical and cultural methods, they reveal the considerable contribution of foreign-born people to the economy, society and culture of England in the age of the Black Death, the Hundred Years War and the Wars of the Roses.
Performance, Cognitive Theory, and Devotional Culture
Author: J. StevensonPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230109071
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
In Performance, Cognitive Theory, and Devotional Culture, Jill Stevenson uses cognitive theory to explore the layperson s physical encounter with live religious performances, and to argue that laypeople s interactions with other devotional media - such as books and art objects - may also have functioned like performance events. By revealing the remarkable resonance between cognitive science and medieval visual theories, Stevenson demonstrates how understanding medieval culture can enrich the study of performance generally. She concludes by applying her theories of medieval performance culture to contemporary religious forms, including creationist museums, Hell Houses, and megachurches.