Medieval People

The visitor to the House of Lords, looking respectfully upon that august assembly, cannot fail to be struck by a stout and ungainly object facing the throne--an ungainly object...

Et por ce, veul ie que un et autre sachent a tos iors mais les euvres des Veneciens, et qui il furent, et dont il vindrent, et qui il sont, et comment il firent la noble Cite qu...

The men of the middle, as indeed of all ages, including our own, were very fond of writing books of deportment telling women how they ought to behave in all the circumstances of...

Ther was also a Nonne, a Prioresse, That of her smyling was ful simple and coy; Hir grettest ooth was ne but by sëynt Loy; And she was cleped madame Eglentyne. Ful wel she song...

Three slender things that best support the world: the slender stream of milk from the cow's dug into the pail; the slender blade of green corn upon the ground; the slender threa...

The great and noble trade of cloth-making has left many traces upon the life of England, architectural, literary, and social. It has filled our countryside with magnificent Perp...

Every schoolboy knows that the Middle Ages arose on the ruins of the Roman Empire. The decline of Rome preceded and in some ways prepared the rise of the kingdoms and cultures w...

1. The raw material for this chapter consists of Paycocke's House, presented to the Nation in 1924 by the Right Hon. Noel Buxton, M.P., which stands in West Street, Coggeshall,...

1. _The Book of Ser Marco Polo the Venetian concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East_, trans. and ed. with notes by Sir Henry Yule (3rd edit., revised by Henri Cordier, 2...

Compline, 79, 82 _Consrater_, 168 Constantinople (_see_ Byzantium), 41, 42, 46, 50, 51, 62 Convent, _see_ Nunneries Cookery, Medieval, 100, 112-17, 186 Corea, 49 _Corte Milioni_...

3. The best introduction to the history of the Company of the Staple is to be found in Mr Malden's aforesaid introduction to _The Cely Papers_, which also contains a masterly ac...

I. _Le Ménagier de Paris, Traité de Morale et d'Economie Domestique, compose vers_ 1393 _par un Bourgeois Parisien ... publié pour la première fois par la Société des Bibliophil...

1. The Roll of the Abbot Irminon, an estate book of the Abbey of St Germain des Prés, near Paris, written between 811 and 826. See _Polyptyque de l'Abbaye de Saint-Germain des P...

2. Miscellaneous visitation reports in episcopal registers. On these registers, and in particular the visitation documents therein, see R.C. Fowler, _Episcopal Registers of Engl...