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What We Did in Bed: A Horizontal History [Kietas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Hardback, 232 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 210x140x22 mm, 16 b-w illus.
  • Išleidimo metai: 12-Nov-2019
  • Leidėjas: Yale University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0300223889
  • ISBN-13: 9780300223880
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What We Did in Bed: A Horizontal HistoryDidesnis paveikslėlis
  • Formatas: Hardback, 232 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 210x140x22 mm, 16 b-w illus.
  • Išleidimo metai: 12-Nov-2019
  • Leidėjas: Yale University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0300223889
  • ISBN-13: 9780300223880
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Citing famous and lesser-known historical examples of leaders who ruled from their bedchambers, a sweeping social history of the bed examines its varied roles as a place for sex, death, childbirth, storytelling and sociability before it was reformed as a site of privacy in the modern era.

Pulling back the covers on the fascinating, yet often forgotten, history of the bed
 
Louis XIV ruled France from his bedchamber. Winston Churchill governed Britain from his during World War II. Travelers routinely used to bed down with complete strangers, and whole families shared beds in many preindustrial households. Beds were expensive items&;and often for show. Tutankhamun was buried on a golden bed, wealthy Greeks were sent to the afterlife on dining beds, and deceased middle-class Victorians were propped up on a bed in the parlor.
 
In this sweeping social history that covers the past seventy thousand years, Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani look at the endlessly varied role of the bed through time. This was a place for sex, death, childbirth, storytelling, and sociability as well as sleeping. But who did what with whom, why, and how could vary incredibly depending on the time and place. It is only in the modern era that the bed has transformed into a private, hidden zone, and its rich social history has largely been forgotten.


Pulling back the covers on the fascinating, yet often forgotten, history of the bed

Recenzijos

[ An] entertaining new studyHelen Davies, The Sunday Times

This book is a fascinating read. It is full of anecdotes set in and around the bed, making use of primary sources where possible, and the authors can't seem to stop themselves from relating interesting facts only tangentially linked to the topic in handHollie L.S. Morgan, History Today

Anyone wishing to appreciate the pedigree of this unjustly overlooked item of furniture should dive between the covers of this volume to experience the ultimate bedtime story.Current World Archaeology

Drawing on a range of sources mythology, folklore, philosophy, literature, advice manuals, diaries it is when Fagan and Durrani use archaeological and anthropological research that they broaden our understandings of this horizontal (if occasionally, vertical) historyFagan and Durrani stretch the definition of the bed, encompassing all those places where one might lay their head to sleep.Vicky Holmes, Cultural and Social History





If you thought that your bed was only good for sleeping in, having sex in, or dying in, then this book will disabuse youin fact, its so entertaining, it will keep you awake long into the night.Paul Chrystal, author of In Bed with the Ancient Greeks and In Bed with the Romans

This is a fascinating account of an important object that has not previously received the attention it deserves.Chris Scarre, Durham University

"This delightful expose of one of humanitys most beloved furnishings is the ultimate bedtime story. Discovering the tales that beds could tell brings a new meaning to pillow talk."Matthew Symonds, editor, Current World Archaeology

Introduction 1(8)
One Beds Laid Bare
9(21)
Two Sleep through Time
30(15)
Three The Big Bang
45(21)
Four Call the Midwife
66(19)
Five Death and Beyond
85(19)
Six Strange Bedfellows
104(20)
Seven The Moving Bed
124(19)
Eight The Public Bedchamber
143(17)
Nine A Private Refuge
160(20)
Ten Tomorrow's Beds
180(15)
Notes 195(10)
Bibliography 205(6)
Acknowledgments 211(2)
Index 213(10)
Illustration Credits 223
Brian Fagan is one of the worlds leading archaeological writers and an internationally recognized authority on world prehistory. He is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His other books include Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization and A Little History of Archaeology.   Nadia Durrani has spent the past two decades writing about world archaeology. She is the co-author of several of Brian Fagans market-leading textbooks and the former editor of Current World Archaeology magazine.