IMC 2005: Sessions
Session 323: Re-Reading Household Records, III
Monday 11 July 2005, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Records of Early English Drama |
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Organisers: | C. Edward McGee, Department of English, St Jerome's University, University of Waterloo, Ontario Barbara D. Palmer, Department of English, University of Mary Washington, Virginia |
Moderator/Chair: | David N. Klausner, Centre for Medieval Studies / Department of English, University of Toronto, Downtown |
Paper 323-a | Sensory Environments in the English Great Household (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Social History |
Paper 323-b | History and Culture in Household Documents of the Percies, Earls of Northumberland (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Daily Life, Performance Art - Drama, Social History |
Paper 323-c | The Temples of Stowe and their Notary (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Performance Art - Drama, Social History |
Abstract | In thirty years of Records of Early English Drama (REED) editors' fieldwork, the field itself matured from locating household texts to understanding their contexts. These REED-sponsored sessions address interdisciplinary ways of looking at household organization; stewards' practices and record-keeping conventions; travel accounts; such socio-economic dimensions as seasons, hospitality, rites of passage, hierarchical structures; age groups; women's management practices; education in estate management; delegation and deputization of household authority; the language and rhetoric of household communication; and archive acquisition, access, and preservation issues. |