LEADER 03233nam 22004812 450 001 9910162772503321 005 20170511142925.0 010 $a1-78204-915-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781782049159 035 $a(CKB)3710000001044809 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781782049159 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4793155 035 $a(DE-B1597)675246 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781782049159 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001044809 100 $a20170214d2017|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBeds and chambers in late medieval England $ereadings, representations and realities /$fHollie L. S. Morgan 210 1$aWoodbridge, Suffolk :$cBoydell & Brewer,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 254 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 May 2017). 311 08$a1-914049-27-6 311 08$a1-903153-71-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aList of illustrations -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- "Fyrst arysse erly" -- "Serve thy God deuly" -- "Do thy warke wyssely/[...] and answer the pepll curtesly" -- "Goo to thy bed myrely/and lye therein jocundly" -- "Plesse and loffe thy wyffe dewly/and basse hyr onys or tewys myrely" -- The invisible woman -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aThe 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 theimagination of late-medieval English 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 in physical 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 chambers functioned as both physical and conceptual spaces.

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