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Life in medieval England

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection A894

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Type of record: Book

Title: Life in medieval England

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection A894

Creator(s): Bagley, J J (1908-1989)

Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)

Publisher: B.T. Batsford

Publication city: London

Date(s): [1960]

Language: English

Size and medium: xvi, 175 pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/740059

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020005791605181

Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History

Description

Castle and court. The court; The tenants-in-chief ; The knights ; The bowmen -- Manor house and peasant's cottage. The village ; The fields ; The desmesne ; The forest -- Street and market place. Borough charters ; London : "flower of cities all!" ; Trade at home and overseas -- Monastery and friary. Monastic orders ; The daily round ; The friars -- School and university -- Scientists and theologians. Greek and Arabic texts ; The medieval universe ; The theologians' view of science -- Technologists and craftsmen. The masons ; Stages of cathedral construction ; Decorators ; Illuminators and printers -- Decay and transition. The black death ; Economic and political consequences of the black death ; End and beginning.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A894: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: HL/86.

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