HIST 840
SYLLABUS
WEEKLY DISCUSSION MATERIALS
COURSE MATERIALS

 

Week 6

DRAWING ROOM AND DINING ROOM;

WEALTH, COMFORT, FURNISHINGS

 

Images:

Victorian dinner party
https:/www.hhhistory.com/2017/12/victorian-dinner-party-etiquette.html

Videos:

Ivan Day: Provincial Dining in England the Long Eighteenth Century, 2017 (36:43 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snsd0TVvw4U

(For still photos of Ivan Day’s work, with some commentary by him, see his website and blog at: https://ivanday.com/.)

Amanda Vickery: At Home with the Georgians (BBC documentary on women’s influence on Georgian interior design, c 2015; 58:27 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbKzGnSypa0

Worsley, Lucy. “History of the Home” (British domestic life, medieval-present day):

“1. The Living Room” (58:59 min.): https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5myen9?playlist=x6o50m

Early doll houses:

“The Miniaturist: Real-Life History” (about Dutch doll-houses of the 17th century; 7:13 min,):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGGb_M0dBcs

“Dutch cabinet kitchen” (in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; 3:00 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe0IJ7buXMg

[Photos only:] “The magical miniature world of antique dollhouses” (from the Netherlands, Germany, France, England, and USA)

 

Readings:

Bryson, At Home, Chapters 7 (“The Drawing Room”) and 8 (“The Dining Room”), pp. 201-277

Nicolas Oikonomides, “The Contents of the Byzantine House from the Eleventh to the Fifteenth Century,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 44 (1990): 205-214 [Available via Canvas and JSTOR]

Michael Pearce, “Approaches to Household Inventories and Household Furnishing, 1500-1650,” Architectural Heritage, 26 (2015): 73-86 (https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/arch.2015.0068)