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“In The Great Household, which is aimed at a wider audience, he explores the culture of late medieval England through the prism of the wealthy. Not only are rich people able to afford many more things, but they have left many more accounts of their attitudes, their approaches to the tangible things around them, their ideas, their beliefs—religious beliefs, but also their personal beliefs, their outlook, their superstitions, their attitudes to medicine. It’s a concise compendium of how the wealthy lived.” Read more...
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