LEADER 04613nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910788307703321 005 20211008215138.0 010 $a0-8122-2336-5 010 $a0-8122-0756-4 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812207569 035 $a(CKB)3170000000060328 035 $a(OCoLC)857645992 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748409 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001036511 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11612997 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001036511 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11041908 035 $a(PQKB)10070044 035 $a(OCoLC)867739580 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19110 035 $a(DE-B1597)449655 035 $a(OCoLC)979628311 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812207569 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442057 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748409 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682452 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442057 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000060328 100 $a20120612d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aLost letters of medieval life$b[electronic resource] $eEnglish society, 1200-1250 /$fedited and translated by Martha Carlin and David Crouch 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (361 p.) 225 1 $aThe Middle Ages series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51170-5 311 0 $a0-8122-4459-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 293-319) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tILLUSTRATIONS --$tPreface --$tAbbreviations --$tA Note on Money --$tINTRODUCTION --$tChapter 1. Money --$tChapter 2. War and Politics --$tChapter 3. Lordship and Administration --$tChapter 4. Family and Community --$tChapter 5. A Knight's Correspondence: Building a Barn and a Windmill --$tBibliography --$tGeneral Index --$tSubject Index --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS 330 $aEveryday life in early thirteenth-century England is revealed in vivid detail in this riveting collection of correspondence of people from all classes, from peasants and shopkeepers to bishops and earls. The documents presented here include letters between masters and servants, husbands and wives, neighbors and enemies, and cover a wide range of topics: politics and war, going to fairs and going to law, attending tournaments and stocking a game park, borrowing cash and doing favors for friends, investigating adultery and building a windmill. While letters by celebrated people have long been known, the correspondence of ordinary people has not survived and has generally been assumed never to have existed in the first place. Martha Carlin and David Crouch, however, have discovered numerous examples of such correspondence hiding in plain sight. The letters can be found in manuscripts called formularies-the collections of form letters and other model documents that for centuries were used to teach the arts of letter-writing and keeping accounts. The writing-masters and their students who produced these books compiled examples of all the kinds of correspondence that people of means, members of the clergy, and those who handled their affairs might expect to encounter in their business and personal lives. Tucked among the sample letters from popes to bishops and from kings to sheriffs are examples of a much more casual, ephemeral kind of correspondence. These are the low-level letters that evidently were widely exchanged, but were often discarded because they were not considered to be of lasting importance. Two manuscripts, one in the British Library and the other in the Bodleian Library, are especially rich in such documents, and it is from these collections that Carlin and Crouch have drawn the documents in this volume. They are presented here in their first printed edition, both in the original Latin and in English translation, each document splendidly contextualized in an accompanying essay. 410 0$aMiddle Ages series. 606 $aLetter writing$vEarly works to 1800 607 $aEngland$xCivilization$y1066-1485$vSources 607 $aEngland$xSocial life and customs$y1066-1485$vSources 610 $aHistory. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 615 0$aLetter writing 676 $a942.03/4 701 $aCarlin$b Martha$01475963 701 $aCrouch$b David$0270789 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788307703321 996 $aLost letters of medieval life$93690363 997 $aUNINA