Books by Barbara Harvey
“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...
The best books on Daily Life in Medieval England
Ian Mortimer, Historian
Interviews where books by Barbara Harvey were recommended
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Medieval England: A Social History and Archaeology from the Conquest to 1600 AD
by Colin Platt -
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Living and Dying in England 1100-1540: The Monastic Experience
by Barbara Harvey -
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The Great Household in Late Medieval England
by C. M. Woolgar -
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Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages: Social Change in England c.1200–1520
by Christopher Dyer -
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Medicine & Society in Later Medieval England
by Carole Rawcliffe
The best books on Daily Life in Medieval England, recommended by Ian Mortimer
The best books on Daily Life in Medieval England, recommended by Ian Mortimer
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there,” wrote L.P. Hartley. The question is: in what ways? Historian Ian Mortimer talks us through five influential books that shed light on daily life in medieval England—from monastic communities and great households to the gruelling lives of the peasantry.
