Michael Pearce
My PhD research 'Vanished Comforts: Setting the Context for Furniture and Furnishings in Scotland, 1500-1650', was an AHRC-funded CDP project with the National Museums of Scotland and the University of Dundee, running from 2012 to 2016.
The purpose of the research is to imagine and understand the use and purpose of rooms and planning in Scottish homes and castles in this period, and so the lives of those who used these buildings, from the evidence of surviving objects and buildings, archival records, and narratives with a spatial component.
These posts reflect continuing research in early modern material culture attempting to understand activities in early modern homes, the roles of servants, and networks of patrons and makers.
Categories used most frequently by the blogger:
Early Modern Women Early Modern Scotland Material Culture Letters Costume household accounts Jewelry Architecture Anna of Denmark Interiors Mary, Queen of Scots Early Modern Food
Jewels and costume of Annabell, Countess of Mar
31 July 2023
Clothes and jewellery in a will of Annabell Murray, Countess of Mar A will of Annabell Murray, Countess of Mar (died 1603), dated 16 November 1602 is held by the National Library...
Toothache and the Death of Jean Savage Paulet, Marchioness of Worcester
25 November 2022
Jane Savage Paulet, Marchioness of Winchester, by Gilbert Jackson Mary, Countess of Westmorland, wrote to her daughter, Grace, Countess of Home, on 22 April 1631 with news of the...
Copying a recipe book of physic in 1633
22 October 2022
Mary Sutton Dudley, Countess of Home, wrote to her daughter, Margaret, Lady Doune, with advice about the sickness of her child Francis. She mentioned that her man Abram, probably her...
Rebecca Graham makes a band, 1603
12 September 2022
Rebecca Graham worked making textiles in Edinburgh, weaving fringes and passementerie. She made a band or sash for Elizabeth Stewart in 1603, the younger sister of Margaret Stewart,...