Thesis
Thesis
Objects, Space, and the Household in Late Medieval Probate Inventories
Supervisor: Jeremy Goldberg
Research
Research
My research interests include late medieval material culture, notions of home and domesticity, the material culture of 'burgeis' houses, and source critical approaches to probate inventories.
My thesis 'Objects, Space, and the Household in Late Medieval Probate Inventories', will investigate domestic life in late medieval England through the lens of probate inventories. This research aims to critically outline the production and use of inventories registered at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and will advocate for new methodological approaches to these texts.
Taking a novel, qualitative approach to inventories I am examining the use, meaning, and agency of household objects, the differentiation and use of space in late medieval houses, and how different members of the household interacted with these objects and spaces.
This research aims to both broaden and complicate current understandings of late medieval domesticity.
External activities
External activities
Project contributor with The Documentary Archaeology of Late Medieval Europe. (https://dalme.org/) Responsible for editing and transcribing English inventories as part of an international team led by the department of History at Harvard University.
Visiting lecturer in the department of History and Archaeology at the University of Chester.
