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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.
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.
1 sty 2022 · Beds became increasingly simpler as they were no longer for show but were more focused on convenience and comfort. The invention of the innerspring mattress, followed by the box spring in the late 1800s, gave more support and stability to mattresses and helped people attain more comfortable sleep.
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.
1 sty 2006 · Design guidance for this group of older people is limited. This study concerned the exploration and generation of innovative environmental enrichment scenarios for bed-ridden residents.
“The history of the bed”, Wright (1962: viii) writes, “is interwoven with the histories of social, sexual and sanitary attitudes, of architecture and building, on interior decoration and furniture.” Yet, the bed has received almost no attention from social scientists. Why?
