CONTETS
List of illustrations page vii
List of tables viii
List of contributors ix
Acknowledgements xiii
List of abbreviations xiv
1. Introduction. Medieval domesticity: home, housing and household by
P. J. P. Goldberg and maryanne kowaleski 1
2. 'Burgeis' domesticity in late-medieval England by Felicity Riddy 14
3. Buttery and pantry and their antecedents: idea and architecture in the English medieval house by Mark Gardiner 37
4. Building domesticity in the city: English urban housing before the Black Death by
Sarah Rees Jones 66
5. Urban and rural houses and households in the late Middle Ages: a case study from Yorkshire by Jane Grenville 92
6. The fashioning of bourgeois domesticity in later medieval England: a material culture perspective by P. J. P. Goldberg 124
7. Nuns at home: the domesticity of sacred space by Marilyn Oliva 145
8. 'Which may be said to be her own': widows and goods in late-medieval England by Janet s. Loengard 162
9. Weeping for the virtuous wife: laymen, affective piety and Chaucer's 'Clerk's Tale' by Niggle Nolan Sidhu 177
10. On the sadness of not being a bird: late-medieval marriage ideologies and the figure of Abraham in William Langland's Piers Plowman by Isabel Davis 209
11. Fragments of (Have Your) Desire: Brome women at play by Nicola Mcdonald 232
12. Home visits: Mary, Elizabeth, Margery Kempe and the feast of the Visitation by Mary C. Erler 259
Consolidated bibliography 277
Index 310