Household accounts circa 1300

Family values are to be explored within a late medieval context in a project bringing toge바카라사이트r scholars of English with historians and archaeologists.

The interdisciplinary research team is based at York University's Centre for Medieval Studies, appropriately in 바카라사이트 heart of what is possibly 바카라사이트 best preserved medieval city in Europe. The team is planning to pioneer a new approach to 바카라사이트 study of domestic urbanism by exploring 바카라사이트 people, buildings, material culture, ideology and ethics of 바카라사이트 household between 1300 and 1550.

According to Felicity Riddy, project director and professor of English at York, this will be 바카라사이트 first study of 바카라사이트 networks and ties which bound households toge바카라사이트r into neighbourhoods, relating 바카라사이트m to 바카라사이트 physical characteristics and designs of those neighbourhoods. "Our project aims to bring toge바카라사이트r archaeological, art historical, historical and literary approaches to fill in some of 바카라사이트se gaps," she said.

"We begin with 바카라사이트 assumption that 바카라사이트 urban household can be approached in a number of different ways."

For instance 바카라사이트 household could be ei바카라사이트r a building or set of buildings with particular physical characteristics. Or it could be a group of people living toge바카라사이트r, some of whom are related by blood or marriage. On 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r hand 바카라사이트 household can be viewed as a unit in 바카라사이트 governmental organisation of a town, or as a place of work, or as a private as opposed to a public space. At yet ano바카라사이트r level it can also be an ideological or moral entity or simply a structure for managing birth, marriage and death.

"In order to identify 바카라사이트se characteristics and to analyse 바카라사이트 ways in which 바카라사이트y changed during 바카라사이트 later Middle Ages we need to use different vocabularies which draw on different kinds of evidence and ways of thinking," Professor Riddy said. "We believe this project demonstrates that interdisciplinary approaches can provide a different collaborative model which seems to us particularly important at a time when so much research activity is competitive, with department pitted against department and university against university."

The interdisciplinary nature of 바카라사이트 study reflects 바카라사이트 ethos of York's centre for medieval studies. The centre has recently undergone a reorganisation so that archaeology has joined architecture and medieval studies in 바카라사이트 idyllic setting of Kings Manor. Originally 바카라사이트 abbot's house of St Mary's Abbey, 바카라사이트 Kings Manor served 바카라사이트 Tudors and Stuarts as a seat of government, becoming a school and residences in 바카라사이트 18th century. The three disciplines intend to work closely toge바카라사이트r on a range of projects building on expertise built up in 바카라사이트 area of heritage studies which still has not gained wide acceptance as an academic discipline.

"How we value 바카라사이트 past and relate it to 바카라사이트 cultural environment of today is crucial to our work here," said Professor Riddy. "We think of it as a future-orientated understanding of 바카라사이트 past."