The voice of the Middle Ages : in personal letters 1100-1500

Summary: "In an age when few could read and fewer could write, letters were both major events in the lives of their recipients and a means to record that which mattered. In this deftly chosen selection, the voice of the Middle Ages sings out from the writings of individuals as diverse as affluent abbesses, impecunious merchants, love-lorn poets, bigamous priest, spining mothers and wily prelates."--

Record details

ISBN: 0872263436
ISBN: 9780872263437 (hardcover)
Physical Description: print
331 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: New York : Peter Bedrick Books, 1989.
Copyright: ©1989

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-331).
Formatted Contents Note:	General introduction -- The church -- Law and order -- Trade and travel -- War -- Love and marriage -- Family and domestic life -- Royalty -- Literacy and learning -- Doctors and medicine -- Death.