ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the domestic interior as a hitherto under-investigated site of remembrance in early modern England. In the century or so after the Protestant settlement certain iconographies and visual forms long associated with an ecclesiastical setting became increasingly visible in a domestic context. It contributes new material from a domestic context to build on about the rich and varied commemorative culture of post-Reformation England by Houlbrooke, Llewellyn, Greenblatt and Marshall, amongst others. The domestic context for the production and reception of visual and material culture in early modern England has long been neglected within a historiography that has prioritized the study of high art' in grand settings. The chapter explores some of the ways in which domestic fixtures and furniture located in the specific spaces of hall, parlour and bed chamber were used to commemorate rites of passage in the life of an individual and especially to represent their achievements in founding or consolidating a house'.
