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This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.

First published in 1976, Nobles and the Noble Life, 1295-1500 offers a rounded picture of aristocratic life in England from the time Edward I began to call his great councillors together in `House of Lords¿ through to the end of the Middle Ages.

An annual publication of historiographical essays on the pre-modern world, this issue celebrating the life and work of Paul E. Szarmach.

Originally published in 1972 The Purchase of Paradise is an account of medieval philanthropy and looks at the late medieval aristocracy as a social group. The book analyses their voluntary behaviour, their gift giving and the Church and addresses the nature of charity in the Middle Ages.

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This concise and unique volume explores the vital relationship between testimony, memory, and the community in medieval society. Joel T. Rosenthal assembles various categories of testimonies to illuminate how “ordinary” Late Medieval people saw themselves as units of their community, their awareness of the issues surrounding the theater of birth, their interest in the world of and beyond the village, and what aspects of the ubiquitous mother C...

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First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This concise and unique volume explores the vital relationship between testimony, memory, and the community in medieval society. Joel T. Rosenthal assembles various categories of testimonies to illuminate how “ordinary” Late Medieval people saw themselves as units of their community, their awareness of the issues surrounding the theater of birth, their interest in the world of and beyond the village, and what aspects of the ubiquitous mother C...

In Old Age in Late Medieval England, Joel T. Rosenthal explores the life spans, sustained activities, behaviors, and mentalites of the individuals who approached and who passed the biblically stipulated span of three score and ten in late medieval England. Drawing on a wide variety of documentary and court records (which were, however, more likely to specify with precision an individual's age on reaching majority or inheriting property than on...

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There are, contends Joel Rosenthal, two suppositions that have achieved almost full and unquestionable acceptance in contemporary social history and family studies. The first is that at any given time in any given culture one particular form or model of the family dominates, the second is that historical changes in the family operate in a single and compelling direction.In "Patriarchy and Families of Privilege in Fifteenth-Century England, " t...

Shows how medievalists can turn scraps of memories and recollections to build a compelling portrait of daily life in the Middle Ages.