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Sociology of environment --- Private houses --- dwellings --- domesticity

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How did citizens in Bruges create a home? What did an ordinary domestic interior look like in the sixteenth century? And more importantly: how does one study the domestic culture of bygone times by analysing documents such as probate inventories? These questions seem straightforward, yet few endeavours are more challenging than reconstructing a sixteenth-century domestic reality from written sources. This book takes full advantage of the inventory and convincingly frames household objects in their original context of use. Meticulously connecting objects, people and domestic spaces, the book introduces the reader to the rich material world of Bruges citizens in the Renaissance, their sensory engagement, their religious practice, the role of women, and other social factors. By weaving insights from material culture studies with urban history, At Home in Renaissance Bruges offers an appealing and holistic mixture of in-depth socio-economic, cultural and material analysis. In its approach the book goes beyond heavy-handed theories and stereotypes about the exquisite taste of aristocratic elites, focusing instead on the domestic materiality of Bruges' middling groups. Evocatively illustrated with contemporary paintings from Bruges and beyond, this monograph shows a nuanced picture of domestic materiality in a remarkable European city.

Domestic space --- Dwellings --- Home --- Interior decoration --- History --- Sociology of environment --- History of civilization --- History of Belgium and Luxembourg --- domesticity --- dagelijks leven --- anno 1500-1599 --- Bruges --- stadscultuur

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Iconography --- Painting --- Graphic arts --- History of civilization --- recreation --- leisure --- private collections [object groupings] --- art collections --- domesticity --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Venice

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Animals in the middle ages have often been discussed - but usually only as a source of food, as beasts of burden, or as aids for hunters. This book takes a completely different angle, showing that they were also beloved domestic companions to their human owners, whether they were dogs, cats, monkeys, squirrels, and parrots. It offers a full survey of pets and pet-keeping: from how they were acquired, kept, fed, exercised, and displayed, to the problems they could cause. It also examines the representation of pets and their owners in art and literature; the many charming illustrations offer further evidence for the bonds between humans and their pets, then as now. A wide range of sources, including chronicles, letters, sermons and poems, are used in what is both an authoritative and entertaining account. Dr Kathleen Walker-Meikle is a Wellcome Trust Fellow at the University of York, working on animals and medieval medicine.

Pets --- Human-animal relationships --- Civilization, Medieval. --- Animaux familiers --- Relations homme-animal --- Civilisation médiévale --- History --- History. --- Histoire --- Civilisation médiévale --- Pet owners --- Animaux de compagnie --- Propriétaires d'animaux familiers --- Histoire. --- Civilization, Medieval --- Medieval civilization --- Middle Ages --- Civilization --- Chivalry --- Renaissance --- Animal owners --- Companion animals --- House pets --- Domestic animals --- Household animals --- To 1500 --- Squirrel. --- domesticity. --- monk. --- Propriétaires d'animaux familiers

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While the Victorian novel famously describes, catalogs, and inundates the reader with things, the protocols for reading it have long enjoined readers not to interpret most of what crowds its pages. The Ideas in Things explores apparently inconsequential objects in popular Victorian texts to make contact with their fugitive meanings. Developing an innovative approach to analyzing nineteenth-century fiction, Elaine Freedgood here reconnects the things readers unwittingly ignore to the stories they tell. Building her case around objects from three well-known Victorian novels-the mahogany furniture in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, the calico curtains in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton, and "Negro head" tobacco in Charles Dickens's Great Expectations-Freedgood argues that these things are connected to histories that the novels barely acknowledge, generating darker meanings outside the novels' symbolic systems. A valuable contribution to the new field of object studies in the humanities, The Ideas in Things pushes readers' thinking about things beyond established concepts of commodity and fetish.

English fiction --- Material culture in literature. --- Material culture --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- History and criticism. --- History --- thing theory, victorian, literature, great expectations, charles dickens, tobacco, negro head, mary barton, elizabeth gaskell, calico curtains, jane eyre, charlotte bronte, furniture, mahogany, sadism, power, violence, control, hierarchy, colonialism, slavery, plantation, deforestation, cozy, domesticity, cotton markets, capitalism, middlemarch, george eliot, genocide, fetishism, realism, novel, nonfiction, material culture, objects.