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SUMMARY:Domestic frontispieces and the knowledge of the early modern home\
 , 1600–1750 - Lucy Havard (Faculty of History)
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CONTACT:Silvia M. Marchiori
DESCRIPTION:The 17th century witnessed a huge boom in the publication of h
 ousehold recipe books and domestic manuals. Many of these books contain de
 tailed frontispieces depicting domestic scenes\, providing us with a rare 
 glimpse of the 17th-century domestic landscape. As Amanda Herbert advises\
 , the 'study of the impact and intent of early modern prescriptive literat
 ure must... include analysis of both the images and the text of these work
 s'. This talk aims to establish what domestic frontispieces can tell us ab
 out the knowledge required to manage the early modern home. What can we gl
 ean about the nature and extent of this knowledge? How was such knowledge 
 transferred and communicated? Were there clear gender divides in the knowl
 edge possessed by women and men or was there significant overlap? Lucy Hav
 ard will argue that managing the early modern home was a complex and skill
 ed undertaking\, requiring an extensive knowledge base that is reflected i
 n surviving 17th-century cookery books and domestic manuals today.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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