No More Baubles
Tom Johnson: Post-Plague Consumption, 22 September 2022
Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London: Consumption and Domesticity after the Plague
by Katherine L. French.
Pennsylvania, 314 pp., £52, October 2021,978 0 8122 5305 4 Show More
by Katherine L. French.
Pennsylvania, 314 pp., £52, October 2021,
“... aristocratic houses, but was now adapted by the chattering classes as a room for secluded leisure. Thomas Mower’s parlour contained a set of bells that were played with a mallet, while that of Matthew Phelips, a former mayor of London, was bedecked with cushions (eight with griffons, seven with lions), painted hangings, benches, a turned chair and an ... ”