Life in a Medieval Village - Frances Gies [108]
ridge and furrow, 41, 137
Roberts, Brian K., 41
Robin Hood, 193
Roman conquest of Britain, 19-20
roof truss, 90
Rouvehed, William, 89
Rowley, Trevor, 7
rye, 9, 16, 55, 60, 198
Sabbe, Emma, 86
Sabyn, Richard, 181
Sabyn, Robert, 181
St. Albans, 112, 175, 188
St. Ives (town), 29, 48, 52
fair of, 48, 51
St. Laurence, church of, Bradford-on-Avon (Wiltshire), 23
St. Neots, 51
St. Swithun’s Abbey, 56
Saladin, Agnes daughter of Philip, 180
Saladin, Andrew, 150
Saladin, Matilda, 180
Saladin, Philip, 180
sale of land, 73,80-82, 111, 154
sanctuary, 192
sanitation, 34-35, 37, 52, 206
Saul, Nigel, 56
Scott, Sir Walter, 193
Searle, Eleanor, 112
selion (strip), 129-30, 245
Seneschaucie, 49-50, 53, 54, 59, 64, 142
serf, see villein
serfdom, 64, 68-69, 152, 199-200
serjeant, 51
sermons, 33, 92-93, 115, 120, 127-28, 165-66
structure of, 166-68
servants, 78
servile fees, 64, 75-77, 199
sheep, 22, 35, 48, 59, 62, 65, 83, 135, 143, 147, 196
sheepfold, 38, 48, 59, 77
Shepherd, Gilbert, 108
sickness, 120-21
slander, 87, 187
slavery, 64, 68
Smith, Henry son of Henry, 85, 177, 180-81, 186
Smith, John son of Henry, 85, 186
Smith, Muriel daughter of Richard, 113
Smith, Nicholas son of Richard, 85, 178
Smith, Robert, 79, 186
smiths, 39, 149, 150-51
smithy, 39, 41, 79, 151, 196
solar (room of house), 90
spinning, 145, 196
sporting chance, 138-39
Stamford, 51, 52, 152
fair of, 51, 52
standard of living, 97-98, 141-42, 153-54
status of peasants, 67-69, 71-85, 154, 205-6
economic, 67, 68, 71-78, 80-83
legal, 67-69, 71-78, 133-34, 205-6
social, 67, 69, 83-85
Statute of Laborers (1351), 197, 198, 199
Stekedec, Athelina, 79
Stekedec, Robert, 79, 85
Stevenage (Hertfordshire), 148
steward (seneschal), 49-51, 144, 172, 173, 184, 185, 246
stocks, 41, 182, 189
Stoke Pryor, 125
sunken hut (grubenhaus), 11,14
surnames, 69-71
Tacitus, 10-11, 14
tallage, 76, 154, 246
tally stick, 55, 246
tanning, 152
taxation, see lay subsidies, poll tax
technology, agricultural, 16-17, 22, 153, 203, 204
thatch, 34, 38
threshing, 61, 141, 143
Tilmanstone (Kent), 89
tithe, 159-60, 246
tithing, 179-80, 188, 246
head of (chief pledge), 83-84, 179
Titow, J. Z., 97, 153
toft, 34, 35, 41, 246
tools, 9, 11-12, 135, 143, 151
torture, 193
towns, 152
trespass, 190
trial by combat, 191
trial by jury, 191
trial by ordeal, 191
Trow-Smith, Robert, 64, 136
Trune, John, 184
Trune, Richard, 42, 90
Tyler, Wat, 198
Tysoe (Warwickshire), 45
Upwood (Huntingdonshire), 123
Vaughan, Rowland, 203
veterinary medicine, 62-63
vicar, 50, 156-57
villa, 7, 11, 13, 20
village autonomy of, 48-49, 205
decline of, 195-207
definition of, 7-8
function of, 3, 6-7
history of, 7, 9-10, 12-18, 36, 43, 195-207
layout of, 4, 41-42
Mediterranean, 14
nucleated, 14-16
open field, 1-2, 5, 14-16, 205-7
origins of, 11-15
types of, 41-42
villein, 68, 74-77, 245 (see also serfdom, status of peasants)
vineyards, 41
Vinogradoff, Paul, 154, 189
violence in the village, 84-85, 103-5, 180-81
virgate, 47, 72, 246
wages, 61, 145, 197
Wagge, John, 78, 81
Wagge, Sarah, 187
waif and stray, 48
Wakefield (Yorkshire), 107
wakes, 127, 162
Walter of Henley, 49, 51, 56, 57, 59, 62, 64, 136, 137-38, 141
Warboys (Huntingdonshire), 47, 70-71, 115, 124-25, 160
wardens of the autumn, 57, 183, 246
wardship, 108-9, 246
Warenne, earl of, 44
Water, Henry atte, 76
wattle and daub, 11, 33
week-work, 47, 56, 58, 134-35, 246
wells, 34, 41
Westminster, First Statute of (1275), 191
Westminster, Second Statute of (1285), 192
Weston (Huntingdonshire), 64, 173
West Stow (Suffolk), 20, 21, 22, 92
wet nurse, 119
Wharram Percy (Yorkshire), 4-5, 36, 64, 88, 90, 200
wheat, 9, 11, 16, 60-61, 137-38, 140, 141, 153
wheelbarrow, 135, 151
Whitby Abbey, 202
widows, 107
Wijster, Netherlands, 12-13
William of Pagula, 159, 165, 169
William the Conqueror, 28, 30, 44, 190
wills, 110-111
Winchelsey, Robert, archbishop of Canterbury, 163
winnowing, 61, 141, 143
Wistow (Huntingdonshire), 109, 127,