Introduction
In this introduction to Arrêt sur scène / Scene Focus 8, Sujata Iyengar and Sarah Mayo historicize early modern English and French beliefs surrounding privacy and publicity in the bed and the bedchamber. They use the historic artefact of the Great Bed of Ware (Victoria and Albert Museum), to focus t...
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| الحاوية / القاعدة: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/asf, |
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| المؤلفون الرئيسيون: | , |
| التنسيق: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| اللغة: | Anglais |
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Arrêt sur scène / Scene Focus
2022
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| الملخص: | In this introduction to Arrêt sur scène / Scene Focus 8, Sujata Iyengar and Sarah Mayo historicize early modern English and French beliefs surrounding privacy and publicity in the bed and the bedchamber. They use the historic artefact of the Great Bed of Ware (Victoria and Albert Museum), to focus their discussion, and consider the role of technological innovations such as the chimney (in the 11th century) or the webcam (in the 21st) in determining or altering the sense of privacy in Western Europe. Finally, they survey and comment upon the articles within this issue before they conclude, quoting historian Michelle Perrot, that the bed and the chamber offer both intimacy and infinity when the curtains or the door open to the “outside”. |
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