The Medieval Household

Author : David HERLIHY,David Herlihy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674038608

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Medieval Households by David HERLIHY,David Herlihy Pdf

How should the medieval family be characterized? Who formed the household and what were the ties of kinship, law, and affection that bound the members together? David Herlihy explores these questions from ancient Greece to the households of fifteenth-century Tuscany, to provide a broad new interpretation of family life. In a series of bold hypotheses, he presents his ideas about the emergence of a distinctive medieval household and its transformation over a thousand years. Ancient societies lacked the concept of the family as a moral unit and displayed an extraordinary variety of living arrangements, from the huge palaces of the rich to the hovels of the slaves. Not until the seventh and eighth centuries did families take on a more standard form as a result of the congruence of material circumstances, ideological pressures, and the force of cultural norms. By the eleventh century, families had acquired a characteristic kinship organization first visible among elites and then spreading to other classes. From an indifferent network of descent through either male or female lines evolved the new concept of patrilineage, or descent and inheritance through the male line. For the first time a clear set of emotional ties linked family members. It is the author's singular contribution to show how, as they evolved from their heritages of either barbarian society or classical antiquity, medieval households developed commensurable forms, distinctive ties of kindred, and a tighter moral and emotional unity to produce the family as we know it. Herlihy's range of sources is prodigious: ancient Roman and Greek authors, Aquinas, Augustine, archives of monasteries, sermons of saints, civil and canon law, inquisitorial records, civil registers, charters, censuses and surveys, wills, marriage certificates, birth records, and more. This well-written book will be the starting point for all future studies of medieval domestic life.

Author : Eva Svensson
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124190138

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The Medieval Household by Eva Svensson Pdf

This series comprises regional studies in the rural history of the European continent during the Middle Ages (concentrating on the period 1000-1500). Integrating written records, archaeology, and research on the history of the landscape and environment, the books profile work on particular regions in detail. Implicitly and explicitly the series seeks to generate a comparative vocabulary and understanding of phenomena that heretofore have been studied in their local settings. These studies offer broader implications for the history of the seigneurial regime of the Middle Ages, and concern such topics as the history of servitude, the settlement of the land, the functioning of the economy, food, and agricultural practices.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801461965

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The Good Wife's Guide (Le Ménagier de Paris) by Anonim Pdf

In the closing years of the fourteenth century, an anonymous French writer compiled a book addressed to a fifteen-year-old bride, narrated in the voice of her husband, a wealthy, aging Parisian. The book was designed to teach this young wife the moral attributes, duties, and conduct befitting a woman of her station in society, in the almost certain event of her widowhood and subsequent remarriage. The work also provides a rich assembly of practical materials for the wife's use and for her household, including treatises on gardening and shopping, tips on choosing servants, directions on the medical care of horses and the training of hawks, plus menus for elaborate feasts, and more than 380 recipes. The Good Wife's Guide is the first complete modern English translation of this important medieval text also known as Le Ménagier de Paris (the Parisian household book), a work long recognized for its unique insights into the domestic life of the bourgeoisie during the later Middle Ages. The Good Wife's Guide, expertly rendered into modern English by Gina L. Greco and Christine M. Rose, is accompanied by an informative critical introduction setting the work in its proper medieval context as a conduct manual. This edition presents the book in its entirety, as it must have existed for its earliest readers. The Guide is now a treasure for the classroom, appealing to anyone studying medieval literature or history or considering the complex lives of medieval women. It illuminates the milieu and composition process of medieval authors and will in turn fascinate cooking or horticulture enthusiasts. The work illustrates how a (perhaps fictional) Parisian householder of the late fourteenth century might well have trained his wife so that her behavior could reflect honorably on him and enhance his reputation.

Author : C. M. Woolgar,Christopher Michael Woolgar
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300076878

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The Great Household in Late Medieval England by C. M. Woolgar,Christopher Michael Woolgar Pdf

In the later medieval centuries, a whole range of important social, political and artistic activities took place against the backdrop of the great English households. In this vividly illuminating book, C. M. Woolgar explores the details of life in these great houses. Based on an extensive investigation of household accounts and related primary documents, he examines the daily routines, the weekly and annual patterns, and the life-cycle observances of birth, childhood, marriage, death and burial. He also delineates the major changes that transformed the economy and geography of both lay and clerical households between 1200 and 1500.

Author : Cathy Jorgensen Itnyre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136537714

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Medieval Family Roles by Cathy Jorgensen Itnyre Pdf

This colelction of twelve original essays by European and American scholars, offers some of the latest research in three broad areas of medieval history: marriage, children, and family ties.

Author : Katherine L. French
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812253054

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Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London by Katherine L. French Pdf

Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London looks at how increased consumption in the aftermath of the Black Death reconfigured long-held gender roles and changed the domestic lives of London's merchants and artisans for years to come.

Author : ffiona von Westhoven Perigrinor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000477726

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Life in a Medieval Gentry Household by ffiona von Westhoven Perigrinor Pdf

In the Middle Ages the household was such a fundamental part of the social structure that the post-1350 era has been termed ‘the Age of the Household.’ Academic studies have generally focused on the grand, itinerant households of the wealthy aristocracy, illuminating the lifestyles and pastimes of this elite class. Using the household accounts of Alice de Bryene, a widowed gentlewoman, together with bailiffs’ and stewards’ reports from her home in Suffolk and other estates further afield, this richly detailed study paints a vivid portrait of the lives of ordinary people in the medieval countryside, of festivals and feast days, marriage and monuments, family loyalties and betrayals, life and death, the rhythms of the working day and year, and the changing scene in the wider world beyond the household. [Originally published in 1999 by Sutton Publishing Limited (UK) and Routledge Kegan Paul (USA) as Medieval Gentlewoman: Life in a Widow’s Household in the Later Middle Ages by ffiona Swabey.]

Author : Geoff Egan,Justine Bayley,Museum of London
Publisher : Medieval Finds from Excavations in London
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : IND:30000127124604

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The Medieval Household by Geoff Egan,Justine Bayley,Museum of London Pdf

Catalogue of excavated household items from the middle ages provides an invaluable reference tool for experts and the general reader alike. This book brings together for the first time the astonishing diversity of excavated furnishings and artefacts from medieval London homes. These include roofing and other structural items, decorative fixtures and fittings, and assortment of culinary utensils, writing instruments, and toys and weights. Illustrating some 1,000 items, the catalogue provides a fascinating account of how metalwork and glassware manufacturing trends changed during the period covered, while close dating of many of the finds has resulted in many new insights into life at the time.

Author : Jean Ellenby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Education
ISBN : 0521277256

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The Medieval Household by Jean Ellenby Pdf

Author : Cordelia Beattie,Anna Maslakovic,Sarah Rees Jones
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114340941

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The Medieval Household in Christian Europe, C. 850-c. 1550 by Cordelia Beattie,Anna Maslakovic,Sarah Rees Jones Pdf

This volume asks whether there was a common structure, ideology, and image of the household in the medieval Christian West. In the period under examination, noble households often exercised great power in their own right, while even quite humble households were defined as agents of government in the administration of local communities. Many of the papers therefore address the public functions and perceptions of the household, and argue that the formulation of domestic (and family) values was of essential importance in the growth and development of the medieval Christian state. Contributors to this volume of collected essays write from a number of disciplinary perspectives (archaeological, art-historical, historical, and literary). They examine socially diverse households (from peasants to kings) and use case-studies from different regions across Europe in different periods from the medieval epoch from c.850 to c.1550. The volume both includes studies from archives and collections not often covered in English-language publications, and offers new approaches to more familiar material.It is divided into thematic sections exploring the role of households in the exercise of power, in controlling the body, in the distribution of wealth and within a wider economy of possessions. The majority of the papers were first given at the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds in 2001, in a strand on 'Domus and Familia' organised by the Urban Household Group of the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York.

Author : Peter Fleming
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0333610792

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Family and Household in Medieval England by Peter Fleming Pdf

Family and Household in Medieval England discusses the history of family life in England from c. 1066 to c. 1530, drawing upon both primary sources and a wide range of secondary literature. After a discussion of the family in theory and law from late classical times, the book traces the development of the family in this period by following a "life-cycle" approach, from marriage, through childbirth, to the dissolution of marriage by death or separation.

Author : Myra Seaman
Publisher : Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 152614381X

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Objects of Affection by Myra Seaman Pdf

Objects of affection recovers the emotional attraction of the medieval book through an engagement with a fifteenth-century literary collection known as Oxford, Bodleian Library Manuscript Ashmole 61. Exploring how the inhabitants of the book's pages - human and nonhuman, tangible and intangible - collaborate with its readers then and now, this book addresses the manuscript's material appeal in the ways it binds itself to different cultural, historical and material environments. In doing so it traces the affective literacy training that the manuscript provided its late-medieval English household, whose diverse inhabitants are incorporated into the ecology of the book itself as it fashions spiritually generous and socially mindful household members.

Author : Nat Alcock,Dan Miles
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781782977148

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The Medieval Peasant House in Midland England by Nat Alcock,Dan Miles Pdf

The aim of this lavishly illustrated book is to provide an in-depth study of the many medieval peasant houses still standing in Midland villages, and of their historical context. In particular, the combination of tree-ring and radiocarbon dating, detailed architectural study and documentary research illuminates both their nature and their status. The results are brought together to provide a new and detailed view of the medieval peasant house, resolving the contradiction between the archaeological and architectural evidence, and illustrating how its social organisation developed in the period before we have extensive documentary evidence for the use of space within the house. Nat Alcock and Dan Miles' work on Medieval Peasant Houses in Midland England has been nominated for the 2014 Current Archaeology Research Project of the Year.

Author : David Herlihy
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 1571810242

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Women, Family, and Society in Medieval Europe by David Herlihy Pdf

Until his untimely death in 1991, David Herlihy, Professor of History at Brown University, was one of the most prolific and best-known American historians of the European Middle Ages. Author of books on the history of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy, Herlihy published, in 1978, his best-known work in collaboration with Christine Klapisch-Zuber, Les Toscans et leurs familles (Translated into English in 1985, and Italian in 1988). For the last dozen or so years of his life, Herlihy launched a series of ambitious projects, on the history ofwomen and the family, and on the collective behavior of social groups in medieval Europe. While he completed two important books - on the family (1985) and on women's work (1991) - he did not find the time to bring these other major projects to a conclusion. This volume contains essays he wrote after 1978. They convey a sense of the enormous intellectual energy and great erudition that characterized David Herlihy's scholarly career. They also chart a remarkable historian's intellectual trajectory, as he searched for new and better ways of asking a set of simple and basic questions about the history of the family, the institution within which the vast majority of Europeans spent so much of their lives. Because of his qualities as a scholar and a teacher, during his relatively brief career Herlihy was honored with Presidencies of the four major scholarly associations with which he was affiliated: the Catholic Historical Association, the Medieval Academy of America, the Renaissance Society of America,and the American Historical Association.

Author : Ffiona Swabey
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0415925118

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Medieval Gentlewoman by Ffiona Swabey Pdf

"Through an examination of Alice's "Household Book," and using other extant contemporary sources, the author has been able to illuminate the experiences of medieval women in general. The resulting work provides a vivid picture of life in the medieval household, examining marriage and widowhood, daily household and estate management, hospitality and entertainment, education, patronage, religious concerns and the private and public roles of medieval women of the estate-owning class."--BOOK JACKET.