Living and Dying in England 1100-1540 The Monastic Experience

Name: Living and Dying in England 1100-1540 The Monastic Experience
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ISBN: 9780198201618

ISBN-10: 0198201613

ISBN-13: 9780198201618

Edition: 1993

Authors: Barbara Harvey

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This is a fascinating account of daily life in Westminster Abbey, one of medieval England's most important monastic communities. It is also a broad scholarly exploration of some major themes in the social history of the Middle Ages by one of its most distinguished historians. Barbara Harvey exploits the exceptionally rich archives of the Benedictine foundation of Westminster to the full, offering numerous vivid insights into the lives of the Westminster monks, their pensioners, and their patrons. She examines their charitable practices, their food and drink, illness and death, the abbey servants and the institution of corrodies--a key aspect of the abbey's finances. Harvey sets her findings…

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List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/28/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 50
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English

Preface	p. v
Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Charity	p. 7
Diet	p. 34
Sickness and Its Treatment	p. 72
Mortality	p. 112
Servants	p. 146
Corrodies	p. 179
Charitable Giving at Westminster Abbey, c.1510-c.1530	p. 214
Catering in the Refectory and Misericord at Westminster Abbey c.1495-c.1525: Numbers and Messes	p. 216
Apothecaries, Physicians, and Surgeons Employed by the Abbot and Convent of Westminster c.1300-1540	p. 231
Bibliography	p. 252
Index	p. 269
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