![]() ![]() ![]() We learn about medieval meals and games, poachers and priests, tournaments and pageants fifteenth-century universities sixteenth-century plagues and seventeenth-century libraries, music rooms, nurseries, and witch-hunts eighteenth-century parsons, coachmen and doctors nineteenth-century noblemen, factory girls and cricketers twentieth-century maidservants, landladies and motorists. Every aspect of medieval and modern life is covered in detail. The chapters range far and wide over life in castles, palaces and monasteries, in the homes of rich merchants and in the hovels of peasants, describing the work and play of the inhabitants, their clothes and food and possessions, their servants and animals, their pleasures and suffering, their beliefs and attitudes, their schools, fairs, shops and markets, hospitals and prisons, theatres and churches, farms and factories, taverns and brothels. ![]() Based on diaries, letters, memoirs, official reports, the works of modern social historians and the literature of every period, The English traces the development of English society over nine hundred years. In this vivid and compelling book, Christopher Hibbert records the daily life of the English people from the days of the Norman Conquest until our own. ![]()
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