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* Read * Living and Dying in England 1100-1540: The Monastic Experience (Ford Lectures) by Barbara Harvey ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Living and Dying in England 1100-1540: The Monastic Experience (Ford Lectures) Buy it Use it Keep it I don't love any books.but this was excellent;a scholarly readible text. For the amateur or beginner historian/archaeologist just fine.. Michael K. Smith said Heavily "academic" but excellent material. The first version of this above-average social history originated as the 1989 Ford Lectures series at Oxford (the author is herself on the faculty of Somerville College), and a certain episodic quality remains. While the focus is on monastic life (especially among the Benedic
| Title | : | Living and Dying in England 1100-1540: The Monastic Experience (Ford Lectures) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.17 (921 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0198201613 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 50 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-10 |
| Language | : | English |
A gem."--The Catholic Historical Review. "An in-depth examination of life in Westminster Abbey during the later Middle Ages from the perspective of social history."--Historian"In a richly researched, sensitive, and fair-minded monograph, Harvey has given us an account of daily life at Westminster AbbeyLiving and Dying is a major contribution to medieval studies and will be much used by scholars in many fields of inquiry."--Speculum"This book will prove a mine of information about many aspects of the structure of daily monastic lifeScholars and students will ignore this soundly researched and engagin
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. Harvey sets her findings in the context both of other religious institutions and of the secular world. 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. This is a fascinating account of daily life in Westminster Abbey, one of medieval England's most important monastic communities. 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. Full of color and interest, Living and Dying in England is a highly readable and authoritative contribution to medieval history.
Barbara Harvey was formerly a Fellow and Tutor at Somerville College, Oxford, where she taught Medieval History, and is now an Emeritus Fellow of the College.
Buy it Use it Keep it I don't love any books.but this was excellent;a scholarly readible text. For the amateur or beginner historian/archaeologist just fine.. Michael K. Smith said Heavily "academic" but excellent material. The first version of this above-average social history originated as the 1989 Ford Lectures series at Oxford (the author is herself on the faculty of Somerville College), and a certain episodic quality remains. While the focus is on monastic life (especially among the Benedictines), Harvey argues that those in cloisters nevertheless assimilated a good deal of secular culture, so her observations are meant to apply, really, to many aspects of late medieval English society as a whole. Moreover, while she attempted to peruse as many monasteries as possible, it's the monks of Westminster who provide the focus. She divides he. Thomas H. Belstler said Very Interesting Book. I liked the book very much. She provides a wealth of detail about how these placed operated, where they got their funds from and what their life style was like. The most surprising thing for me was the quantity of food supplied to the residents. No wonder the paintings from the era all have very rotund monks! I wish she had provided a monetary conversion chart though so that one might compare what was spent or collected in that time to what the outlay or income would be in today's currency.
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