![]() Now, here is the tip that I wish I had followed more consistently in my research books. (Of course, each chapter should be just that, a starting point for your research, and not the beginning and end of your research journey.) This really is an excellent, basic starting point for anyone researching the Middle Ages. The chapters are followed by a Glossary of Castle Terms and a Glossary of Feudal Terms. Life in a Medieval Castle includes the following chapters: (I was going to tell you about another favorite medieval book of mine, but when I discovered it is out of print, I decided I’ve tortured you enough for awhile with wonderful but difficult to obtain titles. And the good news is, this book is STILL IN PRINT. This is one of the first research books I ever found on the Middle Ages, way back in the late 1970s. Life in a Medieval Castle, by Joseph & Frances Gies. But I should know better than to make assumptions like that-maybe you don’t know about it at all! So here it is: I haven’t mentioned the book because I assumed it was such a basic resource that everyone would already know about it. So here’s a book and a tip that I haven’t mentioned before. ![]() I did proceed with some revisions of-oh, let’s just call it Illuminations, it’s shorter that way!-this summer and hopefully have it in good submittable form now, but it remains on hold for the foreseeable future-and so, for now, do my coordinating research posts.īut I do owe you, my faithful readers, something in the meantime. If well, then they will likely want to publish Illuminations of the Heart as well. But then Leatherwood Press picked up Loyalty’s Web and asked me to put Illuminations of the Heart on the shelf for awhile, while they publish Loyalty’s Web and see how it does in the marketplace. Originally, I was hoping to publish the next novel in my series, Illuminations of the Heart, and subsequently was looking forward to sharing all kinds of new research sources with you that I used for that novel. Vandagriff.) My excuses (and that’s exactly what they are…excuses) boil down to this: (Although I do hope you enjoyed my interview with G.G. ![]() These issues allow us important insights into peasant mentalities and attitudes to order, disorder, gender and seigniorial authority.First off, I need to offer my apologies to all for not keeping this blog properly up-to-date. Similarly peasant communities appear to have applied some degree of discretion in their dealing with particular offences, by, for instance, not drawing attention to some of them by raising the hue and cry. Discrepancies in offending behaviour between men and women can be evaluated and compared between two manorial communities. At the same time such cases can be explored for peasant attitudes to gender, gender roles as well as peasant attitudes to seigniorial authority. The cases which caused the hue and cry to be raised, and which were then recorded in the manorial court rolls, can reveal a great deal about peasant attitudes to different types of offending behaviour, as well as local mechanisms of social control. The raising of the hue and cry was not only an important tool for policing local communities, it was also a communal ritual. This paper seeks to explore aspects of peasant community policing and keeping order in two fourteenth-century villages.
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