Old Age in Late Medieval England
Old Age in Late Medieval England

Author: Joel T. Rosenthal

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 1996-08-29

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780812233551

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This view of a society composed of the aged as well as of the young and the middle aged is reinforced by an examination of peers, bishops, and members of parliament and urban office holders, for whom demographic and career-length information exists. Many individuals had active careers until near the end of their lives; the aged were neither rarities nor outcasts within their world.

Old Age in Early Medieval England
Old Age in Early Medieval England

Author: Thijs Porck

Publisher: Anglo-Saxon Studies

Published: 2021-06-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781783276349

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First full-length study of the notion and concept of old age in early medieval England.

The Great Household in Late Medieval England
The Great Household in Late Medieval England

Author: C. M. Woolgar

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780300076875

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In the later medieval centuries, a whole range of important social, political and artistic activities took place against the backdrop of the great English households. In this vividly illuminating book, C. M. Woolgar explores the details of life in these great houses. Based on an extensive investigation of household accounts and related primary documents, he examines the daily routines, the weekly and annual patterns, and the life-cycle observances of birth, childhood, marriage, death and burial. He also delineates the major changes that transformed the economy and geography of both lay and clerical households between 1200 and 1500.

Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages
Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages

Author: Christopher Dyer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1989-03-09

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780521272155

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Between 1200 and 1520 medieval English society went through a series of upheavals: this was an age of war, pestilence and rebellion. This book explores the realities of life of the people who lived through those stirring times. It looks in turn at aristocrats, peasants, townsmen, wage-earners and paupers, and examines how they obtained their incomes and how they spent them. This revised edition (1998) includes a substantial new concluding chapter and an updated bibliography.

Writing Old Age and Impairments in Late Medieval England
Writing Old Age and Impairments in Late Medieval England

Author: Tommy and Mary Barham Endowed Professor of English Will Rogers

Publisher: ARC Humanities Press

Published: 2020-03-31

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781641892544

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The old speaker in Middle English literature often claims to be impaired because of age. This stunning admission is very often followed by actions and narration which directly contradict it, as speakers, such as the Reeve in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales or Amans in Gower's Confessio Amantis, proceed to perform even as they protest and claim impairments and debility. More than simply the modesty topos, this claim and contradiction exists, "Staves and Stanzas" argues, as prosthesis: old age brings with it debility and inability but discussing those age-related impairments both augments the old, impaired body, simultaneously undercutting and emphasizing the existence of bodily impairments. This language of prosthesis becomes a fitting metaphor for the old works these old speakers use to fashion narrative, which exist as incomplete yet powerful sources.

An Illustrated History of Late Medieval England
An Illustrated History of Late Medieval England

Author: Chris Given-Wilson

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780719041525

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The late Middle Ages (c.1200-1500) was an age of transition. The major events of this period - the Black Death, the Hundred Years War, the rise of Parliament, the depositions of five English kings between 1327 and 1483 - are examined in detail in this book.

A Companion to Britain in the Later Middle Ages
A Companion to Britain in the Later Middle Ages

Author: S. H. Rigby

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 688

ISBN-13: 0470998776

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This authoritative survey of Britain in the later Middle Ages comprises 28 chapters written by leading figures in the field. Covers social, economic, political, religious, and cultural history in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales Provides a guide to the historical debates over the later Middle Ages Addresses questions at the leading edge of historical scholarship Each chapter includes suggestions for further reading

Settlement Change Across Medieval Europe
Settlement Change Across Medieval Europe

Author: Niall Brady

Publisher: Ruralia

Published: 2019-09-09

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9789088908064

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Innovations, transmissions and transformations had profound spatial, economic and social impacts on the environments, landscapes and habitats evident at micro- and macro-levels. This volume explores how these changes affected how land was worked, how it was organized, and the nature of buildings and rural complexes.