Managing an Experimental Household
The Dees of Mortlake and the Practice of Natural Philosophy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4174570 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Deborah E Harkne, Deborah E Harkness (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 247-262 |
| Publication date | 1997-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Isis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-1753 • E-ISSN: 1545-6994 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/383691 |
| OpenAlex | W2048994959 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 32 |
Jane Dee was married to Elizabethan England's most eminent natural philosopher, John Dee. As John Dee's wife Jane was expected to perform a variety of traditional housewifely duties--managing servants, supervising domestic arrangements, and serving as a model of virtue for her family and the community. As the wife of a natural philosopher, however, Jane Dee was expected also to be her husband's helpmeet and partner--helping to make sure that the "business" of natural philosophy was profitable, overseeing the work of his philosophical assistants, and protecting her husband's privacy. This essay examines how Jane Dee negotiated her two roles within a busy and complicated household--how she interacted with her husband and his natural philosophy--and argues that the domestic sphere is an important site of knowledge production in the early modern period
Archaeology · Epistemology · Natural (archaeology · Natural order · Natural Philosophy · Political science · Sociology · Virtue · Wife · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law · Philosophy
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Territory Trouble
| Unique citing works | 32 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,23 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2024 (25) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 30 |