Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London - French Katherine L.
Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London - French Katherine L. The Black Death that arrived in the spring of 1348 eventually killed nearly half of England's population. Household…
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Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London - French Katherine L.
The Black Death that arrived in the spring of 1348 eventually killed nearly half of England's population. 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. 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.
The changes in material circumstance reshaped French examines the accommodations that Londoners made to their bigger houses and the increasing number of possessions these contained.