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Lost Letters of Medieval Life - English Society, 12-125 (Paperback)
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Lost Letters of Medieval Life - English Society, 12-125 (Paperback)
Series: The Middle Ages Series
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Everyday 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.
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