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Orlin Lena Cowen |
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Titolo |
Locating privacy in Tudor London [[electronic resource] /] / Lena Cowen Orlin |
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New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
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1-281-34157-6 |
9786611341572 |
0-19-152761-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (386 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Privacy - England - London - History - 16th century |
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London (England) Social life and customs 16th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [326]-352) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Note on Conventions; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Doors; 1. The Search for Lady Ingram; 2. Rebuildings; 3. Alice Barnham in the Rebuilt World; 4. Boundaries; 5. The Chronicles of Francis Barnham; 6. Galleries; 7. The Barnhams' Business Secrets; 8. Closets; Works Cited; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Lena Orlin paints a dense picture of everyday life in Renaissance England, with an emphasis on personal privacy, the built environment, and the life story of a remarkable undiscovered woman - merchant's wife and mother of four, Alice Barnham - with a central role in some of the most important untold stories of sixteenth-century women. - ;Locating Privacy in Tudor London asks new questions about where private life was lived in the early modern period, about where evidence of it has been preserved, and about how progressive and coherent its history can be said to have been. The Renaissance and t |
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