Houses and Households in Late Medieval England: An Archaeological Perspective

Grenville, Jane

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“…Modern standards of archaeological recording and scientific dating have been applied to only a small number of individual urban buildings across the country, and more intensive town-wide surveys are rare. Examples include the Chester Rows Research Project (Brown 1999), Sarah Pearson's extension of her 'medieval houses' research to Kentish urban buildings (Pearson 2003) and work by Jane Grenville and her colleagues and students in York (Grenville 2000), which have all provided significant new insights into the form and construction of urban buildings.…”

Section: The Archaeology Of Urban Buildingsmentioning

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“…Grenville (2000) has used methods of formal spatial analysis to study access patterns within urban dwellings, and has suggested that certain features of timberframed construction, such as roof trusses and wall braces, may have served to define spatial hierarchies and articulate patterns of movement through the building. The absence of fixed architectural features may also reflect a real ambiguity in the functions of urban domestic spaces.…”

Section: The Archaeology Of Urban Buildingsmentioning

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The interpretation of urban buildings: power, memory and appropriation in Norwich merchants' houses,c. 1400–1660

King

2009

World Archaeology

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Section: The Archaeology Of Urban Buildingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Archaeology Of Urban Buildingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The interpretation of urban buildings: power, memory and appropriation in Norwich merchants' houses,c. 1400–1660

King

2009

World Archaeology

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“…69 In an examination of the frame of a fifteenth-century house at 7 The Shambles,York, she has shown that the carpentry of the wall braces and roof was designed in a particular way to reflect social cues around the house; the former signalling appropriate lines of access through the house and the latter differentiating between the high-status front room and the servants quarters at the back. 70 Documentary studies have also revealed further important information about the construction of the later medieval house that cannot be gleaned from the archaeological record. The initial interest in medieval building construction was however, directed at ecclesiastical and royal buildings, rather than domestic dwellings.…”

Section: The Physical Space Of the Later Medieval Householdmentioning

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The Later Medieval English Urban Household

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Home is one of the most emotive words in any language but our experience of being at home is historically and culturally specific. This article reviews a range of recent scholarship on the later medieval English urban household in the disciplines of History, Literary criticism and Archaeology. It has been composed collaboratively by the members of the York Medieval Household Research Group. After an introduction tracing the wider context in which all histories of domesticity are located, we focus in on our particular period through a close study of contemporary later medieval vocabularies of homeliness. This is followed by a sequence of short thematic sections addressing the historiography of different aspects the demographic structure, ideological construction and daily and emotional life of the household as reflected in the current interests of members of the group.

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Marketing English Books, 1476-1550

Costa¹

2020

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This book sets out to show how new markets were cultivated by printers in the period 1476–1550. It argues that while print and manuscript reading continued alongside each other, developments in the marketing of printed texts began to change what readers read, the ways they read and the place of reading in their lives on a larger scale and at a faster pace than had occurred before. Rather than attempting to offer a superficial survey of how the marketing of every kind of book developed, it focuses on three broad (but not wholly discreet) categories: religious reading, secular reading, and practical reading. Within those categories, the chapters focus in detail on the development of types of book that either emerged for the first time during this period (evangelical books, news pamphlets) or underwent considerable changes in presentation (devotional texts, romances, travel guides, household works). The chapters examine the presentation of early printed editions, paying particular attention to paratexts, with the aim of illuminating the range of techniques that printers used to convince potential buyers to part with their money. The printers of these works were predominantly based in London, but this book places their efforts within a wider European context. It demonstrates that, just as English manuscripts were moulded by foreign influences, English printers responded to their European counterparts’ experiments in the marketing of books.

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Houses and Households in Late Medieval England: An Archaeological Perspective

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The interpretation of urban buildings: power, memory and appropriation in Norwich merchants' houses,c. 1400–1660

The interpretation of urban buildings: power, memory and appropriation in Norwich merchants' houses,c. 1400–1660

The Later Medieval English Urban Household

Marketing English Books, 1476-1550

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