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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.
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.
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...
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.
8 paź 2019 · In this sweeping social history that covers the past seventy thousand years, Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani look at the endlessly varied role of the bed through time. This was a place for sex, death, childbirth, storytelling, and sociability as well as sleeping.
In this article, we explore the social, cultural, and emotional meaning of the marital bed and its coverings.2 We argue that the marital bed was literally, economically, spiritually, and - crucially - emotionally at the centre of the domestic sphere for much of the early modern period.
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