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Interpreting the Early Modern WorldThe Intimacy of Death: Interpreting Gender and the Life Course in Medieval and Early Modern Burials

Interpreting the Early Modern World: The Intimacy of Death: Interpreting Gender and the Life... [This chapter engages with Mary Beaudry’s contribution “Stitching Women’s Lives” (Chapter 7) to review points of similarity and difference in the study of gender and material culture in American and British historical archaeology. An interpretive approach is developed through a review of the archaeology of medieval and early modern burial practices in England, with stress placed on evidence connected with age and the family. A dialogue with American historical archaeology prompts a more narrative, microscale approach, explored here through a case study of burial practice as an extension of the social role of mothering. With reference to Beaudry’s focus on the material culture of sewing, special emphasis is placed on the meaning of items of weaving equipment placed in medieval graves as an expression of women’s roles as family undertakers and care-givers of the family.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Interpreting the Early Modern WorldThe Intimacy of Death: Interpreting Gender and the Life Course in Medieval and Early Modern Burials

Part of the Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology Book Series
Editors: Beaudry, Mary C.; Symonds, James
Gilchrist, Roberta
Interpreting the Early Modern World — Sep 30, 2010
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Publisher
Springer US
Copyright
© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011
ISBN
978-0-387-70758-7
Pages
159 –173
DOI
10.1007/978-0-387-70759-4_8
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Abstract

[This chapter engages with Mary Beaudry’s contribution “Stitching Women’s Lives” (Chapter 7) to review points of similarity and difference in the study of gender and material culture in American and British historical archaeology. An interpretive approach is developed through a review of the archaeology of medieval and early modern burial practices in England, with stress placed on evidence connected with age and the family. A dialogue with American historical archaeology prompts a more narrative, microscale approach, explored here through a case study of burial practice as an extension of the social role of mothering. With reference to Beaudry’s focus on the material culture of sewing, special emphasis is placed on the meaning of items of weaving equipment placed in medieval graves as an expression of women’s roles as family undertakers and care-givers of the family.]

Published: Sep 30, 2010

Keywords: Material Culture; Historical Archaeology; Thirteenth Century; Grave Good; Burial Practice

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