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Household servants and slaves : a visual history, 1300-1700
- Title
- Household servants and slaves : a visual history, 1300-1700 / Diane Wolfthal.
- Author
- Wolfthal, Diane
- Publication
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2022.
- ©2022
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Details
- Description
- 272 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 25 cm
- Summary
- "The first book-length study of both images of ordinary household workers and their material culture, Household Servants and Slaves: A Visual History, 1300-1700 covers four hundred years and four continents, facilitating a better understanding of the changes in service that occurred as Europe developed a monetary economy, global trade, and colonialism. Diane Wolfthal presents new interpretations of artists including the Limbourg brothers, Albrecht D
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-264) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Foregrounding the background -- Illuminating the late Medieval servant -- Servants without masters -- The personal servant -- Paper servants -- The material servant -- Conclusions: Intersectionality and invisibility.
- Call Number
- Sc E 23-170
- ISBN
- 9780300234879
- 0300234872
- OCLC
- 1308726259
- Author
- Wolfthal, Diane, author.
- Title
- Household servants and slaves : a visual history, 1300-1700 / Diane Wolfthal.
- Publisher
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-264) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 23-170