Plot Summary

Mark Lewis is a young man living in London who works as a film camera focus puller at a film studio. He lives in a large house, his childhood home, which is now subdivided into flats. He lives in one flat and rents the others out....

The Archaeology of Purity and Impurity: A Case-Study from Tel ʿEton, Israel

The distinction between clean and unclean, often associated with bodily functions, is a common feature of human societies. Consequently, diverse groups developed different ways of maintaining separation between the realms. Despite its prominence in many ethnographies and in anthropology at large, and although the spatial expression of this separation is susceptible to archaeological enquiry, the concept of purity had received less attention by archaeologists. The completion of the excavation of a large house at Tel ʿEton supplied us with detailed information on household life and practices in Iron Age Israel. The finds from this house, along with a very large archaeological dataset about Iron Age Israelite society at large and the wealth of textual data from this period, give us insights into the practices associated with purity/impurity. The article reconstructs how Iron Age Israelite society coped with the implications of impurity (mainly women during menstruation) in its daily life, how impurity was contained, and offers a reconstruction of the ritual that accompanied the change of status from impure to pure.

Chapter 49 how lady glencora went to lady monk’s party

Lady Monk’s house in Gloucester Square was admirably well adapted for the giving of parties. It was a large house, and seemed to the eyes of guests to be much larger than it was. The hall was spacious, and the stairs went up in...

Chapter 42 Lady Baldock does not send a Card to Phineas Finn

Lady Baldock’s house in Berkeley Square was very stately,—a large house with five front windows in a row, and a big door, and a huge square hall, and a fat porter in a round-topped chair;—but it was dingy and dull, and could not have...

Chapter XLV

Nekhlyudov meant to rearrange the whole of his external life: to send away his servants, let his large house, and move into lodgings; but Agrafena Petrovna pointed out that it was useless to change anything before the winter. No one would rent a town...

31 Who Messire Jean Percerin Was

The King’s tailor, Messire Jean Percerin, occupied a rather large house in the Rue St Honoré, near the Rue de l’Arbre Sec. He was a man of great taste in elegant stuffs, embroideries, and velvet, being hereditary tailor to the King. The preferment of...

XIV

A Martinmas summer* of Mrs. Henchard’s life set in with her entry into her husband’s large house and respectable social orbit, and it was as bright as such summers well can be. Lest she should pine for deeper affection than he...