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This collection investigates how the late-medieval household acted as a sorter, user and disseminator of different kinds of ready information, from the traditional and authoritative to the innovative and newly made. Building on work on the noble and bourgeois medieval household, it considers bourgeois, gentry and collegiate households on both sides of the English Channel. The book argues that there is a dynamic and reciprocal relationship between domestic experience and its forms of cultural expression. Contributors address a range of cultural productions, including conduct texts, romances and comic writing, estates-management literature, medical writing, household music and drama and manuscript anthologies. Their studies provide a fresh illustration of the late-medieval household's imaginative scope, its extensive internal and external connections and its fundamental centrality to late-medieval cultural production. -- .

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'One final note in favor of this volume is the frequency of cross-references between the essays: Burger's essay makes good use of Kuipers's argument, Seaman cites Burger, Critten cites Radulescu, etc. These connections not only strengthen the volume's coherence, but make a good case for the household as meaningful field of study.' Studies in the Age of Chaucer -- .

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Glenn D. Burger is Professor of English at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY and Dean of Graduate Studies at Queens College, CUNY Rory G. Critten is Lecturer in Old and Middle English at the Universit de Lausanne, Switzerland

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