Living and Dying in England 1100-1540: The Monastic Experience

“Barbara Harvey is one of those old-school academics, very rigorous and with a keen attention to primary sources…For me, it’s about her scrutiny of the documents and the ways they could be used—and by documents, I mean those generated by the monks of Westminster Abbey and their staff. They include a lot of accounts, but also manuals and procedures. How did the monks live within the Abbey? It’s a very rich archive and she goes into it in painstaking detail.” Read more...

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Ian Mortimer, Historian