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  • 24 - Books for daily life: household, husbandry, behaviour

  • from VERNACULAR TRADITIONS
  • Edited by John Barnard, University of Leeds, D. F. McKenzie, University of Oxford
  • With Maureen Bell, University of Birmingham
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    14 November 2002, pp 514-532

  • Summary

    Many books published throughout the period are concerned with daily life. Books on household work and husbandry were often small format and appear to have been cheaply produced; more carefully printed were those relating to personal behaviour. This chapter deals with the books produced in England covering the subject areas of household, husbandry and behavior, during two time periods: 1557-1640 and 1640-1695. The content of books referring to daily life (work inside the house and work outside the house) remains fairly constant but their publishing history is marked by a gap of nearly all new work in English between 1617 and 1650. Books relating to personal behaviour and family relationships have a continuous publishing history. While ordinary people needed books to help them pick up a trade or skill, the urban gentry needed books in order to find out what things were necessary for appropriate behaviour and display of position.