Approaches to Household Inventories and Household Furnishing, 1500–1650. Issue 1 (November 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Pearce, Michael
• Is Part Of: Architectural heritage. Volume 26:Issue 1(2015)
• Page Start: 73
• Page End: 86
• Publication Date: 2015-11
• Subjects: Architecture -- Scotland -- Periodicals; Architecture -- Scotland -- History -- Periodicals; Architecture, Scottish -- Periodicals; Architecture -- Periodicals; 720.941105
• DOI: 10.3366/arch.2015.0068
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1350-7524

Abstract

Abstract : Inventory texts are structured and patterned by social priorities as interesting as the artefacts described. Reconstructing those priorities leads to a better understanding of the significance of furnishing within architectural planning. This article presents the hall as central to the demonstration of inequality of wealth and power within sixteenth- and seventeenth-century elite domestic architecture and, using inventories which have not been closely examined before, identifies and explains the role of the key furnishings.