Description: Living and Dying in England 1100-1540 Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). The Monastic Experience Author(s): Barbara Harvey Format: Paperback Publisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom Imprint: Clarendon Press ISBN-13: 9780198204312, 978-0198204312 Synopsis This is an authoritative account of daily life in Westminster Abbey, one of medieval England's greatest monasteries. It is also a wide-ranging exploration of some major themes in the social history of the Middle Ages and early sixteenth century by a distinguished historian of that period. Barbara Harvey exploits the exceptionally rich archives of the Benedictine foundation at Westminster to the full, offering many vivid insights into the lives of the monks of Westminster, their dependants, and their benefactors. She examines the charitable practices of the monks, their food and drink, their illnesses and their deaths, the number and conditions of employment of servants, and their controversial practice of granting corrodies (pensions made up in large measure of benefits in kind). All these topics Miss Harvey considers in the context both of religious institutions in general and of the secular world.
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Book Title: Living and Dying in England 1100-1540
Item Height: 234 mm
Item Width: 157 mm
Series: Clarendon Paperbacks
Author: Barbara Harvey
Publication Name: Living and Dying in England 1100-1540: the Monastic Experience
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: History
Publication Year: 1995
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 511 g
Number of Pages: 310 Pages
