Living and dying in England, 1100-1540 : the monastic experience /
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| Author / Creator: | Harvey, Barbara F. |
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| Imprint: | Oxford : Clarendeon Press, 1993. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 291 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Ford lectures ; 1989 Ford lectures ; 1989. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11108265 |
| Summary: | 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 in the context both of other religious institutions and of the secular world. Full of color and interest, Living and Dying in England is a highly readable and authoritative contribution to medieval history. |
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| Item Description: | "Delivered in the University of Oxford in Hilary Term 1989." |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 291 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-268) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191591730 0191591734 0585182620 9780585182629 9786610767076 6610767076 1280767073 9781280767074 0198204310 0198201613 9780198201618 9780198204312 |