Household Goods & Good Households in Late Medieval London:Consumption & Domesticity After the Plague

Confabulating with Prof Katherine French Prof. French is J. Frederick Hoffman Professor of History at the University of Michigan (USA). She is a specialist in the history of women, gender and sexuality of the European Middle Ages and early modern period. Prof. French is the author of, among many other publications, monographies People of the Parish (Philadelphia, 2001) and Good Women of the Parish (Philadelphia, 2008). Her newest book “Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London: Consumption and Domesticity After the Plague” can be bought: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0812253051/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_XAM1BZ1YA0JPB9GJ1SZ9 https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9780812253054?gC=5a105e8b&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI4bbY65bn9QIVCertCh19aQOyEAQYASABEgL6mfD_BwE https://wordery.com/household-goods-and-good-households-in-late-medieval-london-katherine-l-french-9780812253054/GB?currency=GBP&gtrck=true&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI4bbY65bn9QIVCertCh19aQOyEAQYAyABEgJWjfD_BwE Katherine L. French offers an original and convincing hypothesis about a distinctive mercantile and artisanal culture that is not merely emulative of elite consumption practices, but rather innovative and adaptive. Throughout, she explores the relationship between gender, 'stuff, ' and the lifeways and rituals associated with household work, food, and childbirth. More broadly, she makes a powerful contribution to wider historical and sociological discussions about the relationship between people and their things.