Approaches to Household Inventories and Household Furnishing, 1500-1650

TY - JOUR

T1 - Approaches to Household Inventories and Household Furnishing, 1500-1650

AU - Pearce, Michael

PY - 2015/11

Y1 - 2015/11

N2 - Inventory texts are structured and patterned by social priorities as interesting as the artefacts described. Reconstructing those priorities leads to a better understanding of the significance of furnishing within architectural planning. This article presents the hall as central to the demonstration of inequality of wealth and power within sixteenth- and seventeenth-century elite domestic architecture and, using inventories which have not been closely examined before, identifies and explains the role of the key furnishings.

AB - Inventory texts are structured and patterned by social priorities as interesting as the artefacts described. Reconstructing those priorities leads to a better understanding of the significance of furnishing within architectural planning. This article presents the hall as central to the demonstration of inequality of wealth and power within sixteenth- and seventeenth-century elite domestic architecture and, using inventories which have not been closely examined before, identifies and explains the role of the key furnishings.

U2 - 10.3366/arch.2015.0068

DO - 10.3366/arch.2015.0068

M3 - Article

SN - 1350-7524

VL - 26

SP - 73

EP - 86

JO - Architectural Heritage

JF - Architectural Heritage

IS - 1

ER -