Medieval Domesticity

Maryanne Kowaleski is Joseph Fitzpatrick S.J. Distinguished Professor of History and Director of Medieval Studies at Fordham University. P. J. P. Goldberg is Reader in Medieval History in the Department of History, University of York.

• 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