Noble Household Management and Spiritual Discipline in Fifteenth-Century Worcestershire
James P. Toomey, Robert N. Swanson and David Guya. New series 24, 2013.
This volume includes A Household Account of Edward, duke of York at Hanley Castle, 1409-10, edited by James P. Toomey; and The Visitation Court Book of Hartlebury, 1401-1598, edited by Robert N. Swanson and David Guyatt.
Expertly edited by the late James P. Toomey, the household account of the duke of York provides us with a detailed insight into life at Hanley Castle in the early 15th century. We learn what those who lived in the castle ate and drank, how they sourced their foodstuffs and other provisions, and how an upper-class household was run five centuries before ‘Downton Abbey’! The Hanley Castle account includes a detailed, authoritative Introduction and a comprehensive Index.
The Hartlebury Court Book has been edited by Robert N. Swanson, a leading authority on the late medieval church. It is the record of a church court, at which the moral and spiritual failings of Hartlebury folk (including absence from church on feast days, adultery and fornication), were judged and punished. The edition includes a scholarly Introduction, Maps and full Indexes of names and subjects.
‘This volume not only makes important historical materials accessible to students of fifteenth-century Worcestershire (and the Welsh borderland): the editors also indicate the significance of these materials on a much broader front.’
Professor Ralph Griffiths
Join the Society – Your County Needs You!
£7.00
Noble Household Management and Spiritual Discipline in Fifteenth-Century Worcestershire
James P. Toomey, Robert N. Swanson and David Guya. New series 24, 2013.
This volume includes A Household Account of Edward, duke of York at Hanley Castle, 1409-10, edited by James P. Toomey; and The Visitation Court Book of Hartlebury, 1401-1598, edited by Robert N. Swanson and David Guyatt.
Expertly edited by the late James P. Toomey, the household account of the duke of York provides us with a detailed insight into life at Hanley Castle in the early 15th century. We learn what those who lived in the castle ate and drank, how they sourced their foodstuffs and other provisions, and how an upper-class household was run five centuries before ‘Downton Abbey’! The Hanley Castle account includes a detailed, authoritative Introduction and a comprehensive Index.
The Hartlebury Court Book has been edited by Robert N. Swanson, a leading authority on the late medieval church. It is the record of a church court, at which the moral and spiritual failings of Hartlebury folk (including absence from church on feast days, adultery and fornication), were judged and punished. The edition includes a scholarly Introduction, Maps and full Indexes of names and subjects.
‘This volume not only makes important historical materials accessible to students of fifteenth-century Worcestershire (and the Welsh borderland): the editors also indicate the significance of these materials on a much broader front.’
Professor Ralph Griffiths
Join the Society – Your County Needs You!
£7.00
