Daily living in the twelfth century, based on the observations of Alexander Neckam in London and Paris
This is a book for all who are curious to know how it was to live in another time. It presents a new approach to the study of medieval life: first, it concentrates on a 50-year period, 1150-1200, not making the usual broad generalizations about the Middle Ages as though they were a single, homogeneo...
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Madison :
University of Wisconsin Press,
1952
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- London
- The journey and Paris
- Lodgings in the city
- Gown
- Town
- The baron and his castle
- Manor house and peasant
- "To talk of many things"