Household knowledges in late-medieval England and France

✍ Scribed by Glenn D. Burger; Rory G. Critten (editors)

Publisher: Manchester University Press
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 286
Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book examines how the late-medieval household acted as a sorter, user and disseminator of information. Considering the reciprocal relationship between the domestic experience and its cultural expression, contributors provide a fresh illustration of the imaginative scope of the late-medieval home and its centrality to cultural production.

✦ Table of Contents

Front matter
Dedication
Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
List of abbreviations
Introduction: the home life of information
Knowledge production in the late-medieval married household: the case of Le Menagier de Paris
Knowing incompetence: elite women in Caxton’s Book of the Knight of the Tower
Renovating the household through affective invention in manuscripts Ashmole 61 and Advocates 19.3.1
The Christmas drama of the household of St John’s College, Oxford
Household song in Chaucer’s Manciple’s Tale
Field knowledge in gentry households: ‘pears on a willow’?
Domestic ideals: healing, reading, and perfection in the late-medieval household
Macrocosm and microcosm in household manuscript Cambridge, University Library MS Ff.2.38
The multilingual English household in a European perspective: London, British Library MS Harley 2253 and the traffic of texts
Bibliography
Index

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