Living and dying in England, 1100-1540 : the monastic experience
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Living and dying in England, 1100-1540 : the monastic experience
Clarendeon Press, c1993
- : pbk
- : hard
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Note
"The Ford lectures delivered in the University of Oxford in Hilary Term 1989."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [252]-268) and index
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
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: hard ISBN 9780198201618
Description
Giving an account of daily life in Westminster Abbey, one of medieval England's most important monastic communities, this book is also an exploration of some major themes in the social history of the Middle Ages. Barbara Harvey exploits the exceptionally rich archives of the Benedictine foundation of Westminster to the full, offering numerous 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. Miss Harvey sets her findings in the context both of other religious institutions and of the secular world. Barbara Harvey has also written "Westminster Abbey and its Estates in the Middle Ages" and "The Westminster Chronicle 1381-1394".
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Charity: perceptions of monastic almsgiving
- monastic almsgiving from ordinary income
- monastic almsgiving from special funds. Part 2 Diet: the problems
- the sample
- Benedictine diet - regular and irregular
- arrangements at Westminster Abbey. Part 3 Sickness and its treatment: the empirical approach
- the monastic community at Westminster Abbey
- the treatment of sickness at the abbey
- morbidity in the monastic community at Westminster Abbey
- the diseases. Part 4 Mortality: the problems
- mortality at Christ Church, Canterbury 1395-1505
- mortality at Westminster Abbey 1390-1529
- the fatal diseases
- the population trend in late Medieval England. Part 5 Servants: perspectives
- monastic households
- servant life
- earnings at Westminster Abbey. Part 6 Corrodies: perceptions old and new
- the main kinds of corrody
- grants in general
- grants in exchange for real property
- grants in exchange for money
- the age and marital status of corrodians. Appendices: 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-c.1540
- estimating the life-expectancy of the monks of Westminster, Jim Oeppen
- corrodians of Westminster Abbey 1100-1540.
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9780198204312
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Charity: perceptions of monastic almsgiving
- monastic almsgiving from ordinary income
- monastic almsgiving from special funds. Part 2 Diet: the problems
- the sample
- Benedictine diet - regular and irregular
- arrangements at Westminster Abbey. Part 3 Sickness and its treatment: the empirical approach
- the monastic community at Westminster Abbey
- the treatment of sickness at the abbey
- morbidity in the monastic community at Westminster Abbey
- the diseases. Part 4 Mortality: the problems
- mortality at Christ Church, Canterbury 1395-1505
- mortality at Westminster Abbey 1390-1529
- the fatal diseases
- the population trend in late Medieval England. Part 5 Servants: perspectives
- monastic households
- servant life
- earnings at Westminster Abbey. Part 6 Corrodies: perceptions old and new
- the main kinds of corrody
- grants in general
- grants in exchange for real property
- grants in exchange for money
- the age and marital status of corrodians. Appendices: 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-c.1540
- estimating the life-expectancy of the monks of Westminster, Jim Oeppen
- corrodians of Westminster Abbey 1100-1540.
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