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Social Life in Britain from the Conquest to the Reformation

By G. G. Coulton

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9780511697104, 9781108010634
DOI
10.1017/CBO9780511697104
Google Books ID
rddyRAAACAAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (20069776 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Library Collection - History
Pages
639\639
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

First published in 1918, and re-issued with forty pages of illustrations in 1919, Social Life in Britain marked a turning point in Coulton's writings. Although a rigorous academic who stressed the importance of using primary sources, Coulton was skilled at making medieval history accessible to a wider audience, by dealing with ordinary lives. He played an important role in encouraging interest in the study of social and economic, rather than political and military, history of the Middle Ages among younger scholars. In the present work, he used his extraordinarily wide reading of historical and literary sources to cover all aspects of ordinary life in medieval Britain. These include birth and childhood, education, town life, food and drink, the Church and medical methods. He also deals with aspects of women's lives, travelling, and bizarre superstitions which were widely held. A fascinating book to dip into, with a wealth of material.

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