All Outputs (2)

Domestic buildings: understanding houses and society (2016)
Book Chapter
King, C. (2016). Domestic buildings: understanding houses and society. The Routledge handbook of material culture in Early Modern Europe (111-125). London: Routledge

This chapter argues that understanding consumption must involve contextualising objects; the built environment has often been treated as a passive backdrop or container for new goods in the early modern world, rather than a socially, economically and... Read More about Domestic buildings: understanding houses and society.

Private lives and public power: Norwich merchants' houses between the 14th and 16th centuries (2015)
Book Chapter
King, C. (2015). Private lives and public power: Norwich merchants' houses between the 14th and 16th centuries. In Norwich: medieval and early modern art, architecture and archaeology. Maney Publishing

This chapter discusses the surviving examples of large merchants’ houses in the city of Norwich dating between the 14th and 16th centuries. These were the residences of families who dominated the economic and political life of the medieval and early... Read More about Private lives and public power: Norwich merchants' houses between the 14th and 16th centuries.