Presented By: Institute for the Humanities
"Good Households and Household Goods: Material Culture and Burgess Identity after the Black Death"
Katherine French, J. Frederick Hoffman Professor of History
Looking at the experience of post-plague London, French argues that more than just manifesting status and wealth, the new goods filling artisan or merchant homes were creating new kinds of household environments that compelled plague survivors, their children, and grand-children to act in ways that produced new social personae.
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