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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...
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.
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 ...
19 mar 2024 · Bringing environmental history, the history of medicine and the history of poverty into conversation with material culture studies, this article argues that sleep management in early modern England involved environmental practices in which bodies and matter were interwoven.