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: 9780198204312

ISBN-10: 0198204310

ISBN-13: 9780198204312

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…

Book details

List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/2/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 310
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.21" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Preface


Abbreviations


Introduction



Charity



Diet



Sickness and Its Treatment



Mortality



Servants



Corrodies



Charitable Giving at Westminster Abbey, c.1510-c.1530



Catering in the Refectory and Misericord at Westminster Abbey c.1495-c.1525: Numbers and Messes



Apothecaries, Physicians, and Surgeons Employed by the Abbot and Convent of Westminster c.1300-1540


Bibliography


Index