Household knowledges in late-medieval England and France

Household knowledges in late-medieval England and France
ISBN-10
1526144239
ISBN-13
9781526144232
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
288
Language
English
Published
2019-10-17
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Authors
Rory G. Critten, Glenn D. Burger

Description

This collection investigates how the late-medieval household acted as a sorter, user and disseminator of different kinds of ready information, from the traditional and authoritative to the innovative and newly made. Building on work on the noble and bourgeois medieval household, it considers bourgeois, gentry and collegiate households on both sides of the English Channel. The book argues that there is a dynamic and reciprocal relationship between domestic experience and its forms of cultural expression. Contributors address a range of cultural productions, including conduct texts, romances and comic writing, estates-management literature, medical writing, household music and drama and manuscript anthologies. Their studies provide a fresh illustration of the late-medieval household's imaginative scope, its extensive internal and external connections and its fundamental centrality to late-medieval cultural production.

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