Arts of Possession: The Middle English Household Imaginary Volume 33

by D. Vance Smith

Exposes the centrality of the household to cultural practices of the medieval period.

An innovative work of both economic anthropology and literary history, Arts of Possession draws on philosophical, theoretical, literary, historical, and archival sources and insights to situate the household at the center of the social and cultural imagination of fourteenth-century England.

D. Vance Smith argues that in a period...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816639515
• ISBN13: 9780816639519
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"