IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1022: Gender and Domesticity, I: House, Home, and the Domestic
Wednesday 3 July 2019, 09.00-10.30
| Organiser: | Jeremy Goldberg, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Rachel Delman, University College, University of Oxford |
| Paper 1022-a | Interior Decoration and the Hall in Late Medieval England (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Secular, Art History - Decorative Arts, Daily Life, Law |
| Paper 1022-b | Writing Home in Late Medieval England (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Secular, Daily Life, Language and Literature - Middle English |
| Paper 1022-c | Gender and Space, Status and Identity in Later Medieval English Houses (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Secular, Daily Life, Gender Studies, Lay Piety |
| Abstract | This is the first of three sessions which explore gender, space, and the materiality of domesticity in late medieval Britain. Drawing upon a variety of sources - material, documentary, literary - and focusing on a range of houses from across the social spectrum, these sessions collectively consider how behaviours and ideologies, gender and social relations were shaped and articulated through domestic spaces and objects. This session opens the series by asking questions about what houses were for, how they were shaped by gender and status, what made a home, and how domesticity was created. The session draws upon a range of sources from extant buildings and their material culture, to documentary and narrative sources, to literary texts, and will range from the aristocratic great hall to the peasant cottage. |