Household Accounts from Medieval England: Part 2: Diet Accounts (ii), Cash, Corn and Stock Accounts, Wardrobe Accounts, Catalogue

9780197261132

Hardback, published 10 June 1993

396 pages
24.3 x 16.3 x 2.8 cm, 0.769 kg

This volume completes the publication of a unique source for historians of the later medieval nobility. Household accounts contain invaluable evidence on daily life as well as on medieval finance generally. In Part 2, Dr Woolgar has carefully selected and edited the accounts of fourteen households, illustrating the full variety of texts that have survived. They include special accounts for expenses on jewels, furs, cloth, and armour. Dr Woolgar has also provided a complete catalogue of extant medieval English household accounts.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]