Life in a Medieval Village - Frances Gies [109]
women
in land transactions, 111
status of, 145
work of, 144-146, 153
Wood, John, 7
woodward, 57, 246
wool, 62, 64-66, 147
Worcester, bishop of, 58, 141-42
workday, length of, 134
Wyse, Alice wife of Reginald le, 86
Wyse, Gilbert son of Reginald le, 181
Wyse, Reginald le, 84
Wyse, Richard le, 80
Yelden (Bedfordshire), 80
yields, 60-61
Yorkshire, 30
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Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint:
Excerpts from The Court Roll of Chalgrave Manor, translated by Marian K. Dale, and from Bedfordshire Coroners’ Rolls, translated by R. F. Hunnisett, by the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society;
Passages translated by Susan Edgington from Goscelin’s Life and Miracles of St. Ivo, by permission of Susan Edgington.
Excerpts from Nevill Coghill’s translation of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, copyright 1958, 1960, 1975, and 1977, and from Geoffrey Brereton’s translation of Froissart’s Chronicles, copyright 1968, by Penguin Books Ltd.
Acknowledgments
This book was researched at the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library of the University of Michigan.
The authors gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Professor J. A. Raftis of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto, who read the manuscript and made valuable suggestions. We also wish to express thanks to Mr. Alan Clark of Elton and to Miss Kate Chantry of the Cambridgeshire Public Record Office in Huntingdon.
Other Books By
Also by Frances Gies:
The Knight in History (1984)
Joan of Arc (1981)
By Frances and Joseph Gies:
Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages (1987)
Women in the Middle Ages (1978)
The Ingenious Yankees (1976)
Life in a Medieval Castle (1974)
Merchants and Moneymen (1972)
Leonard of Pisa (juvenile) (1969)
Life in a Medieval City (1969)
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LIFE IN A MEDIEVAL VILLAGE.
Copyright © 1990 by Frances and Joseph Gies.
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The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:
Gies, Frances.
Life in a medieval village/Frances and Joseph Gies.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-06-016215-5
1. Elton (Cambridgeshire, England)—Social conditions. 2. Elton (Cambridgeshire, England)—Rural conditions. 3. Peasantry—England—Elton (Cambridgeshire)—History. 4. England—Social life and customs—Medieval period, 1066-1485. I. Gies, Joseph. II. Title. HN398.E45G54 1989
306’.09426’5—dc20 89-33759
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†Formerly Huntingdonshire, until the redrawing of county lines in 1974.
*One expert dates them later, c. 1100.
*Conversion among