HIST 840
SYLLABUS
WEEKLY DISCUSSION MATERIALS
COURSE MATERIALS
NOBLE HOUSES; SACRED SPACE; DRESSING
Readings:
Moore, The Prehistory of Home, Chapters 8 (“Noble Houses”) and 9 (“Sacred Homes”), pp. 141-179
Bryson, At Home, Chapter 17 (“The Dressing Room”), pp. 527-565
Noble houses:
The “throne room” (Mycenaean) in the palace at Knossos (Crete):
https://www.odysseyadventures.ca/articles/knossos/articleKnossos06.centralCourt&TR.html
Fresco from the “corridor of the procession” (Minoan) in the palace at Knossos:
https://www.ancient.eu/uploads/images/10680.jpg?v=1569517040
Minoan frescoes:
http://antiquatedantiquarian.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-minoans-frescoes.html
Chicha-bowls and chicha-making:
https://soundsandcolours.com/articles/ecuador/chicha-an-ancestral-beverage-to-feed-body-and-soul-7430/
Nootka houses (Vancouver Sound):
https://www.getwest.ca/discover/nootkan-people/
Potlatch house dishes and other potlatch materials:
https://www.donsmaps.com/potlatch.html
Sacred space:
Pompeii:
house with lararium in atrium; and another
lararium from the House of the Vettii
Japanese household shrines (Buddhist and Shinto)
Household shrine in India
Devotional space in Roman Catholic household; and another
Dressing (videos):
Getting Dressed in 1665 – Delft (8:08 min.): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIod2n234Zw
Getting Dressed in the 18th Century: Working Woman (5:26 min.): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUmO7rBMdoU
Getting Dressed in the 18th Century: Lady (7:22 min.): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpnwWP3fOSA
Getting Dressed in the 18th Century: Gentleman (5:25 min.): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpS4B5oMhgo
Getting Dressed in 1816: Mary Shelley (8:18 min.; watch 0:33- 3:50 min.): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91sRADqHQlM
Getting Dressed – Dickensian Christmas (1853) (14:07 min.; watch The Maid: 0:00-5:10 min.): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mPtQJxKWLc&list=PLx0IRLJNwjho-6Pkv8hR0yiFIEe_HmG_j&index=11
Victorian Realities – How did they use the toilet? (while wearing a crinoline or a bustle) (6:27 min.): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUHeSTDv_24
Getting Dressed in 1910s London – Working Class Suffragette (6:41 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcBEywxurQA