Medieval Domesticity

• 1. Introduction P. J. P. Goldberg and Maryanne Kowaleski; 2. 'Burgeis' domesticity in late medieval England Felicity Riddy; 3. Buttery and pantry, and their antecedents: idea and architecture in the English medieval house Mark Gardiner; 4. Building domesticity in the city: English urban housing before the Black Death Sarah Rees Jones; 5. Urban and rural houses and households in the late Middle Ages: a case study from Yorkshire Jane Grenville; 6. The fashioning of bourgeois domesticity in later medieval England: a material culture perspective P. J. P. Goldberg; 7. Nuns at home: the domesticity of sacred space Marilyn Oliva; 8. 'Which may be said to be her own': widows and personal property in late medieval England Janet Loengard; 9. Weeping for the virtuous wife: laymen, affective piety, and Chaucer's Clerk's Tale Nicole Nolan Sidhu; 10. On the sadness of not being a bird: late medieval marriage ideologies and the figure of Abraham in William Langland's Piers Plowman Isabel Davis; 11. Household games and women's erotic education Nicola McDonald; 12. Home visits: Mary, Elizabeth, Margery Kempe, and the feast of the Visitation Mary C. Erler.

Review of the hardback: '… an excellent, multi-disciplinary study of the contents and meaning of the late medieval English household and home.' The Medieval Review