Name: Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London. Consumption and Domesticity After the Plague
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Author: Katherine L. French
ISBN: 9781512828658

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Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London. Consumption and Domesticity After the Plague

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press

Author

Katherine L. French

Collection

The Middle Ages Series

Year

2025

Pages

277

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.50 x 15.50 cm

ISBN13

9781512828658

Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London. Consumption and Domesticity After the Plague

Katherine L. French (Author) · University of Pennsylvania Press · Paperback

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Synopsis "Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London. Consumption and Domesticity After the Plague"

The Black Death that arrived in the spring of 1348 eventually killed nearly half of England's population. In its long aftermath, wages in London rose in response to labor shortages, many survivors moved into larger quarters in the depopulated city, and people in general spent more money on food, clothing, and household furnishings than they had before. Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London looks at how this increased consumption reconfigured long-held gender roles and changed the domestic lives of London's merchants and artisans for years to come. Grounding her analysis in both the study of surviving household artifacts and extensive archival research, Katherine L. French examines the accommodations that Londoners made to their bigger houses and the increasing number of possessions these contained. The changes in material circumstance reshaped domestic hierarchies and produced new routines and expectations. Recognizing that the greater number of possessions required a different kind of management and care, French puts housework and gender at the center of her study. Historically, the task of managing bodies and things and the dirt and chaos they create has been unproblematically defined as women's work. Housework, however, is neither timeless nor ahistorical, and French traces a major shift in women's household responsibilities to the arrival and gendering of new possessions and the creation of new household spaces in the decades after the plague.