Household Accounts from Medieval England: Part 2: Diet Accounts (ii), Cash, Corn and Stock Accounts, Wardrobe Accounts, Catalogue

ISBN-13: 9780197261132 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 400 str.

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Opis

This volume completes the publication of a unique source for historians of the later medieval nobility. It contains invaluable evidence on daily life as well as on medieval finance generally. In Part 2, Dr Woolgar has selected and edited the accounts of 14 households, illustrating the full variety of texts that have survived. They include special accounts for expenses on jewels, furs, cloth and armour. Dr Woolgar has also provided a complete catalogue of extant medieval English household accounts.

Recenzje

a bravura display of scholarly expertise which deserves to be loudly praised and widely utilized ... To have mapped out such a long process of change and to have classified its products is a considerable intellectual achievement, which rests on the inspection of a far wider range of accounts than those either printed or listed, as Dr Woolgar's footnotes make clear ... it is hard to think that this work as a whole could have been better done.