A Cultural History of the Home in the Renaissance - 9781350412255

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

A Cultural History of the Home in the RenaissanceAuthor(s): Amanda Flather\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350412255, 978-1350412255\nSynopsis\nThis volume addresses the relationship between people and their homes in Christian areas of Western Europe in the Renaissance, traced from the late fourteenth century to around 1650. The two centuries after 1450 were characterised by a cluster of interrelated forces that led to significant changes in the material, social, cultural, economic and political landscape. The essays in the volume vary in their geographical focus of study and disciplinary approach but taken together they try to uncover the impact of these changes on how people used, thought and felt about their homes in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They try to understand what home meant or if home even existed as a concept for the people and the places they discuss. They also consider wa.