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Life in a Mediæval City Illustrated by York in the XVth Century
The Project Gutenberg eBook, Life in a Mediæval City, by Edwin Benson
Title: Life in a Mediæval City
Illustrated by York in the XVth Century
Author: Edwin Benson
Release Date: February 24, 2006 [eBook #17848]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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LIFE IN
A MEDIÆVAL CITY
ILLUSTRATED BY
YORK IN THE XVth CENTURY
BY
EDWIN BENSON, B.A.
WITH EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS
LONDON:
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING
CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO.
1920
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
IMPORTANT FACTORS AFFECTING THE HISTORY OF YORK
(a) Geographical position; (b) Military value of its position; (c) Political importance
APPEARANCE
Church, State, people; outside the city; population; area-divisions
B. Streets
Highways, traffic, open-spaces; Ouse Bridge
C. Buildings
Dwelling-houses, shops, inns; civic buildings (guildhalls); fortifications (castle, city walls, bars); religious buildings (Minster; St. William's College; St. Mary's Abbey; Friaries; St. Clement's Nunnery; Hospitals; Parish Churches)
LIFE
A. Civic Life
City government, the parishes; extra municipal rights; a royal city; charter; sheriffs; mayor; city councils; civic spirit; city and trade rule; royal government; punishments; sanctuary
B. Parliamentary and National Life
Leasing of royal power; Parliament; visits of Henry IV.; Wars of Roses; Duke of Gloucester; judges of assize; royal larder
Middle class of merchant employers; Jews and Italians; professions; wool trade; trade-guilds; their government; strangers; phases of guild life; merchants; apprentices; working hours; trades; artist craftsmen; markets and fairs; overseas trade; money; extracts from ordinances
The Church in the Middle Ages; the Church and daily life; merchants and religion; the Church and education; work of hospitals; priests (at Minster; parish churches; Archbishop); pluralism; religious orders; monastic life; St. Mary's Abbey; Anchorites; other types of religious (pardoner, palmer, pilgrim); Church services
E. Education
Higher education; grammar schools; elementary education; educational welfare work; instruction; the ways in which the citizen got news and information; vocations; literacy in fifteenth century; mediæval learning; Revival of Learning
Holidays, travelling; mediæval plays; York plays; Corpus Christi Day Processions; production of pageants; other forms of entertainment; archery
G. Classes
Fashions and dress; nobles; religious; townspeople; women; the freemen; soldiers; men in royal service; lepers; visitors (kings, lords, commoners; judges; sailors) serfs
CONCLUSION
York a city of destruction and a "storehouse of the past"
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
YORK IN THE XVTH CENTURY
(From a drawing by E. Ridsdale Tate)
COOKING WITH THE SPIT
(From the Louttrell Psalter)
BISHOP AND CANONS
(From Richard II.'s "Book of Hours")
KNIGHTS DOING PENANCE AT A SHRINE
(From a XVth Century MS.)
