Consumption and the ‘Social Self’ in Medieval Southern England
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6095302 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ben Jervi (0000-0001-5295-0647, Cardiff University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-29 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Norwegian Archaeological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0029-3652 • E-ISSN: 1502-7678 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00293652.2017.1326978 |
| OpenAlex | W2614884896 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 79 |
Over the last 30 years we have become increasingly aware of the commercialising nature of the medieval English economy. However, these insights have had little impact on narratives of consumption, which persist in seeing it as a characteristic of modernity. Here it is argued that we must move away from seeing an early modern consumer revolution and instead think about consumption in medieval society, particularly to examine the implications of commercialisation for identity and selfhood. A framework is developed, building upon David G. Shaw’s use of the ‘social self’ and the writing of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, to explore how the increasing variability, and wider range, of objects impacted upon the negotiation of selfhood in the 13th–15th centuries
Aesthetics · Art · Consumption (sociology) · Identity (music) · Late modernity · Literature · Modernity · Narrative · Negotiation · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies of British Isles · History · Law · Medieval Literature and History
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Medieval Life
Archaeology
Thinking Through Material Culture
English Seigniorial Agriculture, 1250–1450
The cultural biography of things
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The Individual and Society in the Middle Ages
Distinction
Introduction
Archaeologies of Colonialism
Mounts for Furnishings, Padlocks, and Candleholders
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Assemblage Theory
Reassembling the Social
The Philosophy of Money
Trade and Economic Developments, 1450-1550
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Medieval Things
The Craft Consumer
Anglo-Saxon Landscape and Economy
The Sea and the Marsh
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Exploring Text and Objects
Ideologies of consumption
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Variations on a Theme
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Changing Assemblages
Assemblages and Scale in Archaeology
(Re)assembling Communities
Archaeology and Assemblage
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Consumption
| Citations per year | 1.22 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |