Binding: Hardcover
Description: Our understanding of life in the early Middle Ages is dominated by Christian churches and monasteries. It is their records and libraries which have survived the centuries to tell us how the clerics monks and nuns who lived and worked within their walls experienced the world around them. We thus see the lay inhabitants of that wider world mostly when they are interacting with the clergy. However a few sources let us explore lay life in this period more broadly. Beyond the Monastery Walls exploits perhaps the richest of these: manuscript books containing formulas or models for documents that do not otherwise survive. Through these books Warren C. Brown explores the concerns and behavior of lay men and women in this period on their own terms and casts fresh light on a part of the medieval world that is usually hidden from view. In the process he shows how early medievalists are winning fresh information from our sources by looking at them in new ways.
Title: Beyond The Monastery Walls Lay Men And Women In Early Medieval Legal Formularies
Author(s): Brown Warren C. (California Institute Of Technology)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Barcode: 9781108479585
Pages: 407 Pages, Worked Examples Or Exercises
Publication Date: 3/2/2023
Category: European History