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Medieval England was a patriarchal society and the lives of women were heavily influenced by contemporary beliefs about gender and authority. [135] However, the position of women varied considerably according to various factors, including their social class ; whether they were unmarried, married, widowed or remarried; and in which part of the ...
Everyday Life in Medieval England. London: Bloomsbury academic. ISBN 9781852852016. Alcock, Nat (2014). The Medieval Peasant House in Midland England. Oxford: Oxbow Books. ISBN 9781782977148. Woolgar, C. M. (2016). The Culture of Food in England, 1200-1500. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300181913
The book begins by explaining the everyday life of someone of royalty, then of the average peasant. It explains school, the countryside, hunting, tournaments, battles and the church. Throughout the book, several references to Magna Carta are intertwined with everyday events. For example, the chapter entitled "Family Strife" begins with the ...
Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. If you could walk the streets of medieval England, it ...
The medieval household was, like modern households, the center of family life for all classes of European society. Yet in contrast to the household of today, it consisted of many more individuals than the nuclear family. From the household of the king to the humblest peasant dwelling, more or less distant relatives and varying numbers of ...
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century is a handbook about Late Medieval England by British historian Ian Mortimer. It was first published on 2 October 2008 by The Bodley Head, [1] and a later edition with more pages was released on 29 February 2012. The volume debunks and explains ...
Reformation Divided: Catholics, Protestants and the Conversion of England (2017) excerpt; Goodman, Ruth (2016). How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Everyday Life. Viking. ISBN 978-0241973714. Kaufmann, Miranda (6 September 2018) [October 2017]. Black Tudors: The Untold Story. Oneworld Publications. ISBN 9781786073969.
Researchers spent five years studying bones from medieval Cambridge, England, to see what life was like for a cross section of the city’s survivors of the Black Death.