Things - 26 February 2014 - Domestic Things

Dr Tara Hamling (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham)Decorating the parlour: ‘narrative’ imagery in the middling-level houseDr Catherine Richardson (Department of English, University of Kent)“Conferring by the parlour fire”: story-telling and the middling-status house AbstractCatherine Richardson. The particular interests in the subject of ‘domestic things’ which we share at the moment – households and material culture – cluster around the book we are writing together: A Day at Home in Early Modern England: The Materiality of Domestic Life, 1500-1700, due to be submitted to Yale next year. The distinctions in approach to those things come from our different disciplinary perspectives: Tara Hamling is an art historian who researches buildings, interior decoration and crafted objects with a particular focus on iconography and the cultural impact of the English Reformation. Catherine Richardson uses literary and dramatic texts alongside historical documents to study t