At Home in Renaissance Bruges: Connecting Objects, People and Domestic Spaces in a Sixteenth-Century City

by Julie de De Groot

Domestic materiality in a remarkable European city

How did citizens in Bruges create a home? What did an ordinary domestic interior look like in the sixteenth century? And more importantly: how does one study the domestic culture of bygone times by analysing documents such as probate inventories? These questions seem straightforward, yet few endeavours are more challenging than reconstructing a sixteenth-century domestic reality from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9462703175
• ISBN13: 9789462703179
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Leuven University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher