Social Life in Britain : From the Conquest to the Reformation.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- SECTION I LAND AND FOLK -- 1 Merry England -- 2 Scotland -- 3 Ireland -- 4 Wales -- 5 Flanders -- 6 The Effects of the Conquest -- 7 Norman Manners -- 8 Stephen's Misrule -- 9 The Law of Englishry -- 10 The Cornish Foreigner -- 11 The Wild West -- 12 The English Tongue -- 13 English Tails -- (a) -- (b) -- 14 English Drink -- 15 An Englishman's Privileges -- (a) -- (b) -- (c) -- 16 As Others See Us -- 17 England in Civil War -- SECTION II BIRTH AND NURTURE -- 1 The Anatomy of Childhood -- 2 The Father -- 3 Infant Damnation -- 4 Baptismal Scenes -- 5 Proofs of Age -- 6 Decayed Schools -- 7 An Old English School -- 8 The Schoolmaster's Attributes -- 9 Co-Education -- 10 The Dangers of Grammar -- (a) -- (b) -- (c) -- 11 University Origins -- (a) -- (b) -- 12 The Model Student -- 13 The Poor Scholar -- (a) -- (b) -- 14 Hard Work -- 15 Bible Education -- 16 Black Sheep -- 17 University Discipline -- 18 Cambridge Riots -- 19 Forbidden University Sports -- (a) -- (b) -- (c) -- (d) -- (e) -- (f) -- 20 Life in a Royal College -- 21 A College Scrutiny -- (a) -- (b) -- (c) -- 22 A Day of Eton Life in 1530 -- 23 University Reform -- 24 University Decay -- 25 Froissart's Youth -- 26 The Model Boy (Stans Puer ad Mensam) -- 27 School Verses -- (a) -- (b) -- 28 Wardship -- 29 University Expenses -- 30 Spoiled Children -- 31 As Others See Us -- 32 Looking Back on the Middle Ages -- (a) -- (b) -- (c) -- SECTION III AUTHORS, SCRIBES AND READERS -- 1 Monastic Studies -- (a) -- (b) -- 2 Writers' Pay -- 3 A Writer's Bond -- 4 The Writer's Pains -- (a) -- (b) -- 5 Hireling Writers -- 6 Chaucer's Copyist -- 7 A Scrivener's Gild -- 8 Literary Life in the Cloister -- (a) -- (b) -- (c) -- (d) -- (e) -- 9 A Literary Archdeacon -- 10 A Great Chronicler -- (a) -- (b) -- (c) -- (d) -- (e).

11 Poet and Public -- 12 The Fight for Science -- 13 A Monastic Poet -- 14 Medieval Grub-Street -- (a) -- (b) -- (c) -- (d) -- (e) -- 15 A Chronicler's Difficulties -- 16 Author and Patrons -- 17 A Chronicler's Methods -- 18 Poet and King -- 19 Hoccleve's Autobiography -- 20 The Poet's Paradise -- (a) -- (b) -- (c) -- (d) -- 21 Lydgate's Early Days -- 22 Our First Antiquary -- 23 Translators' Difficulties -- (a) -- (b) -- 24 The Love of Books -- SECTION IV CHURCH AND CHURCHMEN -- 1 A Dying World -- (a) -- (b) -- (c) -- (d) -- 2 Sacerdotal Authority -- (a) -- (b) -- (c) -- 3 Canon Law -- (a) -- (b) -- 4 Peter's Pence -- 5 Miracles -- (a) -- (b) -- 6 I Stretch Lame Hands of Faith -- (a) -- (b) -- 7 Political Martyrs -- (a) -- (b) -- (c) -- (d) -- 8 Indulgences -- (a) -- (b) -- (c) -- (d) -- 9 The Virtue of a Mass -- 10 Canterbury and York -- 11 An Archiepiscopal Visitation -- 12 A Model Parish Priest -- 13 Tithes -- (a) -- (b) -- (c) -- (d) -- 14 Parson and Parishioner -- 15 A Pious Family -- 16 A Wholesome Vision -- 17 Purgatory -- 18 A Vision of Heaven -- 19 Foundation of a Religious Order -- 20 Monastic Quarrels -- 21 Abbot and Town -- 22 St Dominic the Saviour -- 23 Missionary Friars -- 24 The English Mission -- 25 Chaucer's Friar -- (a) -- (b) -- 26 A Pilgrimage Shrine -- 27 The Flagellants -- 28 Sidesmen's Reports -- 29 Religious Education -- (a) -- (b) -- 30 Church Music -- (a) -- (b) -- 31 Excommunication -- 32 A False Vow -- 33 Degrees in Blasphemy -- 34 Faith and Reason -- (a) -- (b) -- 35 Latimer's Conversion -- 36 Utopian Monks and Clergy -- SECTION V KINGS, KNIGHTS AND WAR -- 1 The Conqueror's Character -- 2 The Death of Rufus -- 3 Henry II and His Sons -- 4 The Daughters of Richard I -- 5 John's Death -- 6 Court and City -- 7 Knightly Ideals and Realities -- (a) -- (b) -- 8 The Making of a Lord -- 9 A Verray Parfit Gentil Knyght.

10 The Squire in Hall and Bower -- 11 Crusaders' Redemptions -- 12 Crusade Vows Broken -- 13 Crusader and Wife -- 14 A Crusader's Falsehood -- 15 Speculation in Ransoms -- 16 "They Blustreden Forth as Bestës, over Bankes and Hilles -- 17 The Fight of the Thirty -- SECTION VI MANOR AND COTTAGE -- 1 A Model Manor -- 2 The Manorial Court -- 3 The Peasant's Fare -- 4 Incidents of the Countryside -- 5 Essex Ploughboys -- 6 The Miller's Tricks -- 7 Decay of Yeomanry -- 8 Decay of Husbandry -- SECTION VII TOWN LIFE -- 1 London Folk-Mote -- 2 An Unpardonable Word -- 3 Town and Fire -- 4 A London Garden -- 5 Old St Paul's -- (a) -- (b) -- (c) -- 6 Forbidden Sports -- 7 The Town Peace -- 8 City Vagrants -- 9 Corrupt Wine -- 10 Fraudulent Traders -- (a) -- (b) -- (c) -- (d) -- (e) -- (f) -- 11 Sea-Coal -- 12 The Liar's Reward -- 13 Child-Stealing -- 14 Chaucer's Lease -- 15 Cook-Shops -- (a) -- (b) -- 16 Trade Tricks -- 17 The Plain-Spoken Butcher -- 18 Town Sanitation -- 19 Christmastide -- 20 Hock Days -- 21 Profiteering -- 22 Town and Forest -- 23 Wild Birds at Charing Cross -- 24 Through Italian Eyes -- SECTION VIII RICH AND POOR -- 1 The Orthodox Theory of Bondage -- 2 The Unorthodox Theory -- 3 The Serf's Legal Status -- 4 The Servant's Lot -- 5 Monastic Serfs -- 6 The Serf at the Confessional -- 7 Usurers in England -- 8 An Archbishop Excommunicated -- 9 The Corrosion of Usury -- 10 A Mont De Piété -- 11 Fines and Bribes -- 12 Priests of Prey -- 13 The Poor Law Anticipated -- 14 The First Statutes of Labourers -- (a) -- (b) -- 15 The Rising Tide -- 16 Instigations to Revolt -- 17 A Premature Revolt -- 18 The Cry of Internationalism -- (a) -- (b) -- 19 Trade-Unions -- 20 The Bakers' Strike -- 21 Dives and Lazarus -- 22 The Knight Rebuked -- 23 The Power of Money -- SECTION IX HOUSE, DRESS AND MEALS -- 1 The Cat -- 2 The Dog -- 3 A Familiar Beast to Man.

(a) -- (b) -- 4 Dinner and Supper -- 5 Bread Rations -- 6 Beer and God's Law -- 7 A Friar's Praise of Wine -- 8 Extravagant Costume -- (a) -- (b) -- (c) -- 9 Buying a New Suit -- 10 Baronial Breakfasts -- 11 Extravagant Food -- 12 By the Evening Fire -- 13 The Drudging Goblin -- 14 Economy in Bedding -- SECTION X SPORTS AND PASTIMES -- 1 London Pastimes -- 2 Hawking -- (a) -- (b) -- 3 Sport and Church -- (a) -- (b) -- (c) -- 4 The English Longbow -- (a) -- (b) -- (c) -- (d) -- 5 Football -- 6 Forbidden Tourneys -- (a) -- (b) -- 7 The Actor's Status -- 8 King and Minstrel -- 9 A Minstrel's Trick -- 10 God's Minstrels -- 11 A Minstrel's Whim -- 12 Miracle-Play and Miracles -- 13 Dance and Song for Bannockburn -- 14 The Demaundes Joyous -- 15 Swimming -- SECTION XI WAYFARING AND FOREIGN TRAVEL -- 1 The Greatest City in Europe -- (a) -- (b) -- 2 A Merchant Adventurer -- 3 A Journey to Avignon -- 4 Travel Prices -- 5 The Traveller's Gear -- 6 Travellers' Tales -- 7 The Wayfaring Friar -- 8 The Blind Man's Wayfaring -- 9 Forest Ways -- 10 A Trap for Travellers -- 11 Pits in the High Road -- 12 A Stormy Crossing -- 13 The Pilgrims' Sea Voyage -- 14 A Travellers' Guide -- 15 Becket on a Journey -- SECTION XII WOMEN'S LIFE -- 1 The Thirteenth Century Girl -- 2 Women's Education -- 3 Precocious Jealousy -- 4 The Spinster's Lot -- 5 The Corrosive Dowry -- 6 The Law of Marriage -- (a) -- (b) -- (c) -- 7 A Marriage Arranged -- 8 Without the Parents' Consent -- 9 Erasmus on Marriage -- 10 Man and Wife -- 11 Wife to Husband -- 12 The Model Housewife -- 13 Jealousy and Revenge -- 14 The Perfect Woman -- 15 A Nunnery Visitation -- 16 Women's Labour -- 17 Servants by Compulsion -- 18 Women and General Councils -- 19 New Fashions -- 20 The Order of the Garter -- 21 Women in Church -- 22 A Protestant Woman -- SECTION XIII ARCHITECTURE AND THE ARTS.

1 The Artist's Inspiration -- 2 The Artist's Estimation -- (a) -- (b) -- 3 The Architect's Reward -- 4 Lincoln Cathedral -- 5 The Perils of Originality -- (a) -- (b) -- 6 An Artist's Notebook -- 7 Angels in Art -- 8 The Octagon of Ely -- 9 Masonic Legend and Fact -- 10 York Cathedral Masons -- 11 Wyclif on Freemasonry -- 12 Freemasons and Trade-Unionism -- 13 King's College Windows -- 14 The Beginnings of the Secular Stage -- (a) -- (b) -- SECTION XIV MEDICINE AND JUSTICE -- 1 The Perfect Surgeon -- 2 An Anaesthetic -- 3 The Rashness of Inexperience -- 4 "For Gold in Physik is a Cordial -- 5 The Master-Surgeon's Oath -- 6 A Medical Inquisition -- 7 The Quack's Penance -- 8 Surgeon-Barbers -- 9 Medical Recipes -- 10 Toothache -- (a) -- (b) -- (c) -- 11 The Dangers of Water -- 12 Hospital Fare -- 13 Every Man His Own Constable -- 14 A Nation in Arms -- 15 The Escape from Feudalism -- 16 Piepowder Court -- 17 City Police -- 18 Lynch Law -- 19 Before the Wars of the Roses -- 20 Torture by Law -- 21 The Perils of the Law -- 22 Veterinary Medicine -- SECTION XV SUPERSTITIONS AND MARVELS -- 1 A Nest of Sorcery -- 2 Roger Bacon's Forecasts -- 3 Charms in Medicine -- 4 A Charm to find Stolen Goods -- 5 Damages for Sorcery -- 6 The Witch's Fate -- 7 Alchemist by Royal Appointment -- 8 Portents -- 9 Oliver the Flying Man -- 10 Crocodile Tears -- 11 The Remora -- 12 The Lamprey -- 13 The Ghost of the Gog-Magog Hills -- 14 The Enchanted Mere -- 15 The Antipodes -- 16 The Green Children -- 17 Cloud-Ships -- INDEX.

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