The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century (51 page)

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A Collection of Ordinances and Regulations for the Government of the Royal Household
(London: Society of Antiquaries of London, 1790).

W. B. Stephens, “Literacy in England, Scotland and Wales 1500-1900,”
History of Education Quarterly,
20, 4 (1990), pp. 545-71.

E. L. G. Stones, “The Folvilles of Ashby-Folville, Leicestershire, and Their Associates in Crime, 1326-1347,”
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society,
5th series, 7 (1957), pp. 117-36.

Jenny Stratford, “The Royal Library in England before the Reign of Edward IV” in Nicholas Rogers (ed.),
England in the Fifteenth Century: Proceedings of the 1992 Harlaxton Symposium
(Stamford: Paul Watkins, 1994), pp. 187-97.

H. R. T Summerson, “The Structure of Law-Enforcement in Thirteenth-Century England,”
The American journal of Legal History,
23 (1979), pp. 313-27.

C. H. Talbot,
Medicine in Medieval England
(London: Oldbourne, 1967).

Nigel Thorp,
The Glory of the Page
(London: Miller, for Glasgow University Library, 1987).

TNA: The National Archives, Kew (formerly the Public Record Office).

Thomas Frederick Tout,
The Place of the Reign of Edward II in English History,
2nd ed. Manchester: The University Press, 1936.)

Georges Vigarello,
Concepts of Cleanliness: Changing Attitudes in France since the Middle Ages,
Jean Birrell, trans. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).

Westman: see Hanawalt Westman

Margaret Wood,
The English Mediaeval House
(London: Phoenix House, 1965; reprint 1981).

Brian L. Woodcock,
Medieval Ecclesiastical Courts in the Diocese of Canterbury
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1952).

C. M. Woolgar,
The Great Household in Late Medieval England
(New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 1999).

———,
The Senses in Late Medieval England
(New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 2006).

Thomas Wright (ed.),
The Book of the Knight of La Tour-Landry
(London: Early English Text Society, 1868).

E. A. Wrigley and R. S. Schofield,
The Population History of England, 1541-1871: A Reconstruction
(London: Edward Arnold, 1981).

J. H. Wylie,
The History of England under King Henry TV,
4 vols. (London: Longmans, 1884-98).

———,
The Reign of King Henry V,
3 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1914-29).

Philip Zeigler,
The Black Death
(London: Collins, 1969).

All the images in this volume have been kindly provided by the British Library, from manuscripts in their collections. The author is grateful for permission to reproduce them.

Wheel of Fortune, from a mid-fifteenth-century copy of Lydgate’s
Troy Book
(Royal 18 D. II fol. 30v).

Alexander the Great given white elephants, from an early-fifteenth-century romance (Royal 20 B. XX fol. 82v).

Lady at her toilet, from the Luttrell Psalter,
c.
1325-40 (Add. MS 42,130 fol. 63r).

Woman wearing a wimple, from a philosophical tract illuminated in Paris,
c.
1300 (Burney275 fol. 166r).

Women reaping at harvesttime, from the Luttrell Psalter,
c.
1325-40 (Add. MS 42,130 fol. 172v).

Woman being beaten by a man, from a German manuscript of 1446 (Add. MS 17,987 fol. 88r).

Woman beating a man, from the Luttrell Psalter,
c.
1325-40 (Add. MS 42,130 fol. 60r).

Lady shooting at a hare, from the Taymouth Hours,
c.
1325-35 (Yates Thompson 13 fol. 68v).

King John of England does homage to King Philip of France, from an early-fourteenth-century
Chroniques de France
(Royal 16 G. VI fol. 362v).

Philippe de Mezières presents his treatise to Richard II of England,
c.
1395 (Royal 20 B. VI fol. 2r).

Queen Guinevere and the maiden sent by the Lady of the Lake, from a French romance,
c.
1316 (Add. MS 10,293 fol. 90v). Two images from De
Claris Mulierihus,
early fifteenth century (Royal 20 C. V fol. 5r).

Plowmen, from the Luttrell Psalter,
c.
1325-40 (Add. MS 42,130 fol. 170r).

Builders, from the Bedford Hours,
c.
1414-23 (Add. MS 18,850 fol. 17v).

Women spinning and carding wool, from the Luttrell Psalter,
c.
1325–40 (Add. MS 42,130 fol. 193r).

Women spinning and carding wool in the early fifteenth century, from
De Claris Mulieribus
(Royal 20 C. V fol. 75r).

Boy being birched by his teacher, from
Omne Bonum, c.
1360-75 (Royal 6 E. VI fol. 214r).

Burning of the Templars, from a late-fourteenth-century
Chroniques de France
(Royal 20C. VII fol. 44v).

World map of Ranulph Higden, from a late-fourteenth-century
Polychronicon
(Royal 14 C. IX fol. lv-2r).

Map of Great Britain, from Matthew Paris’s
Abbreviato Chronicorum Angliae,
1250s (Cotton Claudius D. VI fol 12v).

Royal traveling coach, from the Luttrell Psalter,
c.
1325-40 (Add. MS 42,130 fol. 181v-182r).

Early fourteenth-century cogs, from the Smithfield Decretals,
c.
1340 (Royal 10 E. IV fol. 19r).

Late-fourteenth-century cogs, from Jean Creton’s
Histoire du Roy d’Angleterre RichardII, c.
1401-5 (Harley 1319 fol. 18r).

Richard II dining, from Jean Waurin’s
Chronique d Angleterre,
illuminated in the late fifteenth century (Royal 14 E. IV fol. 265v).

Alexander the Great dining, from an early-fifteenth-century French romance (Royal 20 B. XX fol. 88v).

Gallows, from a 1487 edition of
Chroniques de France
(Royal 20 E. Ill fol. 28r).

Executions, from a late-fourteenth-century
Chroniques de France
(Royal 20 C.VII fol. 133v).

Monk and woman in the stocks, from the Smithfield Decretals,
c.
1340 (Royal 10 E. IV fol. 187r).

Diagnosis through the inspection of urine, from a late-fourteenth-century
Chroniques de France
(Royal 20 C. VII fol. 78v).

Physicians administering medicine to a king, from an early fourteenth-century
Chroniques de France
(Royal 16 G. VI fol. 310v).

Clergymen with the plague, from
Omne Bonum, c.
1360-75 (Royal 6 E. VI fol. 301r).

Leper with a bell, from a Pontifical,
c.
1400 (Lansdowne 451 fol. 127r).

John of Arderne performing a fistula operation, from a late-fourteenth-century medical text (Sloane 2002 fol. 24v).

Two musicians and a female acrobat, from the Smithfield Decretals,
c.
1340 (Royal 10E. IV fol. 58r).

Carol of love, from an early-fourteenth-century copy of the
Roman de la Rose
(Royal 20 A. XVII fol. 9r).

Bear-baiting, from the Luttrell Psalter, c.1325-40 (Add. MS 42,130 fol. 161r).

abbeys. See monasteries

abbots,
42
,
43
–4,
46
–47,
49
,
51
,
87
,
88
,
97
,
128
,
186
–87,
189
,
280
,
296

lodgings of,
152
,
186
,
189
.
See also specific abbeys

Aberdeen,
93

Abingdon,
296

Abyssinia,
72

accounts, keeping of,
67
,
68
,
297

acorns,
167

acres.
See
units of measurement

acrobats,
52
,
249
,
251
.
See
disc jugglers; tumblers

Adam Davy’s Five Dreams,
77

adultery.
See
crime

Advent,
169
,
183
,
187

Aesop’s Fables,
287

Africa,
73

age.
See
longevity; old people; youthfulness

Agincourt, battle of,
296

aketons.
See
clothes

alchemy 75

ale,
10
,
86
,
97
–98,
132
,
141
,
148
,
154
,
174
–75,
180
,
186
,
187
,
211
,
212
,
227
,
229
,
233
,
249
,
304
,
305

ale cellar,
156
,
159

ale house,
24
,
180
.
See also
taverns

ale-tasters,
51
,
230

alewives,
174
,
229
,
305

Alighieri, Dante.
See
Dante

alleys,
13
,
16
,
24
,
126

almonds. See nuts

almoners,
161
,
183
,
186
,
189

Alnwick,
34

Alrewas,
174

altar coverings,
158

altarpieces,
149

Amazons,
73

ambergris,
118

America,
277

ampullae,
267

amputation. See surgery

andirons,
150

anesthetics,
214

Anglo-French (language). See French language

Anne, Queen,
106
,
113
,
132

Antipedes,
73

Antipodes, the,
73

apothecaries,
12
,
21
,
22
,
53

apples. See fruit

apprentices,
67
,
100
,
232

aprons,
116

Apuleis, Sphere of,
193

Aquitaine, duchy of. See Gascony

Arabic writing. See books

archbishops,
42
,
43
–44,
97
,
296

suffragan,
43
–44. See
also
Canterbury; York

archdeacons,
15
,
42
,
43
–44,
243
,
255

archers, archery,
39
,
220
,
240
,
241
,
263
,
275
. See
also
bows

crossbows Arderne John,
200
,
214

Aristotle,
55
,
298

arithmetic,
67

armor, armorers,
57
, 65,
92
,
108
,
120
–22,
149
,
256
–58,
266
,
300

Guild of Tailors and Armourers,
300

transportation of,
133
–34

weight of,
256
. See
also
axes

daggers; helmets; lances; pikes

swords arms, coats of,
41
,
87
–88,
112
,
156
,
157

Arras,
157

Arthur, King,
269
,
275
,
276
,
282
.
See also
books

Arundel, John,
60
,
297

Ashby Folville,
241

Asia,
72
–73

assarting,
227

asses milk,
207

assizes. See courts

astrolabe,
84
,
135
,
149
,
298

astrology,
75
,
191
–93,
210
. See
also
zodiac man

astronomy,
67
,
211

Atonement, day of,
76

Auchinleck Manuscript. See books

Auden, W. H.,
5

Augustinians,
46

Austin Canons. See Augustinians

Austin Friars,
47

Avesbury, Robert of,
275

Avignon,
44
,
71
,
77

axes,
120
,
140
,
282
. See
also
pickaxes

Aylesbury 302

baboons,
106
,
253

Babylon,
276

backgammon,
264

backplate (for a fireplace),
152

bacon. See meat

Bacon, Roger,
77
–78

badges,
118
,
266
,
268
. See also brooches; clasps; livery

bagpipes. See musical instruments

bags,
150

bailiffs,
32
,
50
,
51
,
59
,
69
,
218
–19,
221
–23,
225
–27,
231
–33

bake houses,
30
,
155
,
171

bakers,
53
,
93
, 96,
161
,
176
,
180
,
205
–6,
230
,
232
–33. See also bread

baking. See bakers; cooking

balas rubies,
118
,
119

baldaquins. See beds; furniture

Balliol, Edward,
120

Baltic Sea,
17
,
71
,
139

Bamburgh Castle,
155

Bangor, diocese of,
296

banking houses,
17
. See also financiers; merchants

Bannockburn,
256

barbers,
213
. See
also
surgeons

Bardney Abbey,
296

bark,
167

barley. See grain

Barnet,
124

barn(s),
16
,
30
,
32
,
226