Name: Beds and Chambers in Late Medieval England: Readings, Representations and Realities
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Author: Morgan, Hollie L. S.
ISBN: 9781914049279

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Beds and Chambers in Late Medieval England: Readings, Representations and Realities

Type

Physical Book

Author

Hollie L. S. Morgan

Publisher

York Medieval Press

Language

English

Pages

266

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.4 x 15.6 x 1.4 cm

Weight

0.39 kg.

ISBN13

9781914049279

Synopsis "Beds and Chambers in Late Medieval England: Readings, Representations and Realities"

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.

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