A History of Domestic Manners and Sentiments in England During the Middle Ages

THE CHAMBER AND ITS FURNITURE--BEDS AND BED-ROOMS--INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD AMONG THE ANGLO-SAXONS--CHARACTER AND MANNERS OF THE ANGLO-SAXON LADIES--THEIR CRUELTY TO THEIR SERVANTS...

STATE OF SOCIETY--THE FEMALE CHARACTER--GREEDINESS IN EATING--CHARACTER OF THE MEDIÆVAL SERVANTS--DAILY OCCUPATIONS IN THE HOUSEHOLD: SPINNING AND WEAVING; PAINTING--THE GARDEN...

CHANGES IN ENGLISH DOMESTIC MANNERS DURING THE PERIOD BETWEEN THE REFORMATION AND THE COMMONWEALTH--THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN’S HOUSE--ITS HALL--THE FIREPLACE AND FIRE--UTENSILS--CO...

Much has been written at different times on the costume and some other circumstances connected with the condition of our forefathers in past times, but no one has undertaken wit...

The introductory observations in the preceding chapter will be sufficient to show that the mode of life, the vessels and utensils, and even the residences of the Anglo-Saxons, w...

THE CHAMBER AND ITS FURNITURE.--BEDS AND BED-ROOMS.--INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD AMONG THE ANGLO-SAXONS.--CHARACTER AND MANNERS OF THE ANGLO-SAXON LADIES.--THEIR CRUELTY TO THEIR SERV...

The progress of society from its first formation to the full development of civilization, has been compared not inaptly to the life of man. In the childhood and youth of society...

THE EARLY NORMAN PERIOD.--LUXURIOUSNESS OF THE NORMANS.--ADVANCE IN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE.--THE KITCHEN AND THE HALL.--PROVISIONS AND COOKERY.--BEES.--THE DAIRY.--MEAL-TIMES AND...

THE NORMAN HALL.--SOCIAL SENTIMENTS UNDER THE ANGLO-NORMANS.--DOMESTIC AMUSEMENTS.--CANDLES AND LANTERNS.--FURNITURE.--BEDS.--OUT-OF-DOOR RECREATIONS.--HUNTING.--ARCHERY.--CONVI...

After the middle of the twelfth century, we begin to be better acquainted with the domestic manners of our forefathers, and from that period to the end of the fourteenth century...

As I have already stated, the hall continued to be the most important part of the house; and in large mansions it was made of proportional dimensions. It was a general place of...

The minstrel acted so very prominent a part in the household and domestic arrangements during the middle ages, that a volume on the history of domestic manners would be incomple...

The dinner hour, even among the highest ranks of society, was, as I have stated, early in the forenoon; and, except in the case of great feasts, it appears not to have been cust...

When the dinner was over, and hands washed, a drink was served round, and then the ladies left the table, and went to their chambers or to the garden or fields, to seek their ow...

THE BED AND ITS FURNITURE.--THE TOILETTE; BATHING.--CHESTS AND COFFERS IN THE CHAMBER.--THE HUTCH.--USES OF RINGS.--COMPOSITION OF THE FAMILY.--FREEDOM OF MANNERS.--SOCIAL SENTI...

Humboldt, in his “Cosmos,” has dwelt on the taste for the beauties of nature which has prevailed among various peoples, and at different periods of the world’s history, but he a...

During the period of which we are treating, the same rough sports were in vogue among the uneducated classes that had existed for ages before, and which continued for ages after...

I put together in a short chapter two parts of my subject which may at the first glance seem somewhat discordant, but which, I think, on further consideration, will be found to...

I have spoken of the ceremonious forms of the service of the mediæval table, but we are just now arrived at the period when we begin to have full information on the composition...

SLOW PROGRESS OF SOCIETY IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.--ENLARGEMENT OF THE HOUSES.--THE HALL AND ITS FURNITURE.--ARRANGEMENT OF THE TABLE FOR MEALS.--ABSENCE OF CLEANLINESS.--MANNER...

As people began to have less taste for the publicity of the old hall, they gradually withdrew from it into the parlours for many of the purposes to which the hall was originally...

The chambers were now, except in smaller houses, mostly above the ground-floor; and, as I have already observed, the privacy of the chamber was much greater than formerly. In th...

STATE OF SOCIETY.--THE FEMALE CHARACTER.--GREEDINESS IN EATING.--CHARACTER OF THE MEDIÆVAL SERVANTS.--DAILY OCCUPATIONS IN THE HOUSEHOLD: SPINNING AND WEAVING; PAINTING.--THE GA...

CHANGES IN ENGLISH DOMESTIC MANNERS DURING THE PERIOD BETWEEN THE REFORMATION AND THE COMMONWEALTH.--THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN’S HOUSE.--ITS HALL.--THE FIREPLACE AND FIRE.--UTENSILS...

As social peace and security became more established in the country, people began to be more lavish in all the articles of household furniture, which thus became much more numer...

During the period at which we are now arrived, almost all the relations of domestic life underwent a great change, and nothing hardly could produce a wider difference than that...