there was something on shared meals & separating things from stews in "small
things forgotten," but i don't remember room layout there; there was
something almost encyclopaedic from the annales school; braudel's "social
history 15-18 centuries"? i only have the german edition here; maybe
something by bourdieu?
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Subject: Concept of Space and Privacy
> Some years ago, I read a book about the development of the concept of the
> use of space and privacy between the 16th and 18th century. I seem to
> recall the
> earliest common space correlated to taverns and only the aristocracy used
> private sleeping rooms. Does anyone have source materials for this concept
> and
> how it might translate into layout of towns and internal building use in
> America?