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A Day at Home in Early Modern England: Material Culture and Domestic Life, 1500-1700
No full textThis fascinating book offers the first sustained investigation of the complex relationship between the middling sort and their domestic space in the tumultuous, rapidly changing culture of early modern England. Presented in an innovative and engaging narrative form that follows the pattern of a typical day from early morning through the middle of the night, A Day at Home in Early Modern England examines the profound influence that the domestic material environment had on structuring and expressing modes of thought and behaviour of relatively ordinary people. With a multidisciplinary approach that takes both extant objects and documentary sources into consideration, Tara Hamling and Catherine Richardson recreate the layered complexity of lived household experience and explore how a family’s investment in rooms, decoration, possessions, and provisions served to define not only their status, but the social, commercial, and religious concerns that characterised their daily existence
Tara Hamling, Catherine Richardson, A Day at Home in Early Modern England – Material Culture and Domestic Life, 1500-1700
No full textLe projet affiché par Tara Hamling et Catherine Richardson dans cet ouvrage est extrêmement ambitieux : tenter de reconstruire la vie quotidienne d’individus ayant vécu en Angleterre entre 1500 et 1700, à partir de leur culture matérielle. Pour les deux auteures, cette perspective est la seule permettant de rendre compte d’une période laissée à l’abandon par les disciplines historiques, du fait de son caractère de « transition » entre le Moyen-Âge et la modernité. La maison, dans sa quotidien..
Designing for TARA: The radar control unit
No full textThis thesis describes the work done on a control system for the Transportable Atmospheric RAdar (TARA), which is located at the Cabauw Experimental Site for Atmosperic Research (CESAR). It describes the way in which this radar control unit was implemented within the TARA, by making use of a high-level programming language. The control unit consists of a PXI-system of National Instruments, LabVIEW software, a DDS from Analog Devices and provided Matlab code. The project resulted in a working prototype. The TARA itself is a FM-CW radar with the possibility of sending and receiving in multiple polarizations and orientations for weather measurements. The system was tested and most functions worked properly. During the test, the measurements with the new system generated the same data as the current system. This proved that the system is working correctly, which is of great importance for the ATMOS group, because they are planning to transport the TARA to a measurement campaign in France in 2012 using the upgraded system.Remote Sensing of the EnvironmentElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Engagement, Learning, Outreach, and Fun in 60 Seconds: Button Making at the Rutgers University Libraries
No full textButton making is a low-cost, high-impact, pop-up makerspace activity that libraries can use to facilitate outreach, connect patrons with collections, teach about copyright, and promote creativity and fun, all in just 60 seconds.
In the fall of 2016, the Rutgers University Libraries- New Brunswick Learning and Engagement team spent $518 to purchase a button maker and supplies to make 1,000 buttons. Since then, the libraries have collaborated on button projects with many departments on campus including the Rutgers Art History Student Association, the Zimmerli Art Museum, and the School of Arts & Sciences Honors program. These partnerships have helped the libraries build strong ties with the Rutgers New Brunswick communities and attracted a devoted group of button makers who regularly come to library events.
Making a button provides quick moment of engagement between a patron and a library staff member, but it is from these kinds of meaningful brief encounters that libraries can learn about their patrons’ lives and needs. These encounters can also be a source for the powerful stories, images, and statistics that help libraries demonstrate their impact and value to their communities.thanks for your help, please let me know any questions. I think we can put this version in SOAR? Best, MC
Ways of Seeing Early Modern Decorative Textiles for Textile History
No full textDecorative textiles were the most ubiquitous form of domestic furnishing in early modern England. From wallcoverings and curtains, bedhangings, tablecloths and carpets, cushions and upholstery, to intricately embroidered smaller items such as boxes and pictures, textiles covered almost every surface of the early modern interior. William Harrison, in his famous Description of England of 1577, states their importance for the development of that interior: not only were the houses of gentlemen and merchants filled with “great provision of tapestry, Turkey work [and] fine linen” but even the houses of artificers and farmers were adorned with “tapestry and silk hangings, and their tables with carpets and fine napery”. The range of textile items that could be seen in houses and their various material qualities were described in great detail in contemporary documents, particularly in account books and probate materials, which show their economic significance and indicate their visual impact. And yet our experience of historic interiors today does not, and perhaps cannot, do justice to this striking feature of the early modern household. Very few textile items from the period have survived in anything like their original or complete condition and the fragile extant objects present significant challenges for interpretation, conservation, display and presentation (e.g. condition, vulnerability to damage and surface deterioration caused by light and touch). While important work has been done to establish the heritage context within which decisions about display are linked to concepts of ‘authenticity’, significant questions remain about the relationship between pre-modern ways of viewing and modern experiences. This special issue and the work of the network which it presents is based on the premise that we cannot fully understand the function of early modern houses unless we understand the complex visual impact of their textiles, and that to do so we need to examine how they may have worked as part of a system of objects functioning in particular domestic spaces.
Whilst the cloths from which these textile objects were made have long been recognised for their key role in connecting local, national and international markets, more recent work has stressed the social role of their finished forms. Recent large-scale quantitative analysis of English probate documents has demonstrated the economic significance of fabric items as one of the key categories of goods that were bought in increasing numbers over the course of the sixteenth century, and the enduring appeal of textile goods, including the development of new types, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. But as Harrison’s comment above suggests, they were not only abundant but also socially significant. They were key to the definition of the emerging ‘middling sorts’, who invested a good deal of their wealth in textile goods that advertised the sophistication and comfort of their domestic provision, and continued to be meaningful as a fundamental part of traditional modes of exhibiting elite status. Conversely, such goods were also made within the home by growing numbers of leisured women, making them key to the construction of gendered identity in the period. Because early modern people experienced these various forms of textile as part of a wider visual culture, it is argued here that finding ways to bring these objects together and re-contextualise them – in terms of positioning within historic spaces and by understanding modes of perception – will permit us to consider in detail the intersecting impact of their economic, social and cultural significance. It will also allow us to answer key historical questions about gender and social status by attending to the material qualities of these objects, which we contend have been neglected in comparison to a long scholarship focusing on technical and aesthetic qualities.
This special issue reflects the work of an AHRC-funded network of researchers in the Humanities and Sciences, conservators, museum curators and heritage professionals, which aimed to highlight and address methodological and museological issues surrounding the study and presentation of decorative textiles from the early modern period in England. The contributions represent a range of perspectives on the central research question: how did individuals experience and engage with the visual and material properties of the domestic interior in early modern England, and how might we analyse and represent those experiences in the present? In focusing on decorative textiles with figurative imagery we examine the dynamics of perception between the narrative (reading), visual (form, colour) and material (texture) qualities of historic domestic interiors
Lexicological confusion and medieval clothing culture: redressing medieval dress with the Lexis of Cloth and Clothing in Britain Project
No full textInventories and the changing furnishings of Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire, 1717-1819
Get PDFThis article explores the changing material culture of Canons Ashby through detailed anlaysis of a series of inventories. It considers the importance of room names, relationship between patina and fashion within the house, and the role of key individuals in shaping the domestic material culture of this relatively modest country house
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