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Beds and Bedding c.1350-1650. Updated version of the talk given to the Medieval Dress and Textile Society, 28th November 2020. A general look at beds and bedding across the later medieval and early modern period. Much of it will focus on information that has been gathered from wills, and from 16th century probate inventories.
1 sty 2022 · Starting with ancient history, and moving through middle ages, the age of enlightenment, and the modern era, we examine historical evidence of typical sleep schedules during each period along with sleep arrangements and beddings.
9 lip 2007 · The book's subtitle The Bed from Antiquity to Now impresses by its enormous time span, and suggests an account of the historic development of the bed in Western civilization. This suggestion proves to be wrong, however, for its scope is even broader.
History is the ‘shipwreck of time’. Innumerable examples of domestic furniture from England, including high-status canopy beds, have been lost because of natural wastage, changing fashions, and the Civil War.
In this article, we seek to bring these varied historiographies and approaches into a fruitful dialogue with one essential threedimensional household feature, in order to reveal the material and emotional experiences it enabled and embodied. The material archive of early modern English beds and bedding (like all archives) is partial and ...
Pulling back the covers on the fascinating, yet often forgotten, history of the bed Louis XIV ruled France from his bedchamber. Winston Churchill governed B...
English Renaissance bed was explored in the work of the late Sasha Roberts, while the middling bed has also had its champions: Lorna Weatherill’s inventory-based study of British material culture between 1660 and 1760 noted that beds, bedding
