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Professional Cooking, Kitchens, and Service Work

Melitta Weiss Adamson

Melitta Weiss Adamson

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A Cultural History of Food in the Medieval Age

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...Cooks and Kitchen Staff In the late Middle Ages—the period under investigation here, when sources became more abundant—cooks were organized in guilds...

Production and Distribution

Eva Andersson Strand

Eva Andersson Strand

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Sarah-Grace Heller

Sarah-Grace Heller is Associate Professor at the Ohio State University, USA, specialising in French and Occitan medieval literature. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Medieval Age

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...Who made medieval clothing, and where did it come from? During the approximately thousand-year period of the Middle Ages, the production, organization, and distribution of textiles and clothing changed considerably, although it is important...

Economy

Phillipp R. Schofield

Phillipp R. Schofield

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A Cultural History of Childhood and Family in the Middle Ages

Bloomsbury Academic, 2010

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...Distinguishing between types of domestic economy across Europe and in a time frame of six hundred years, from the beginning of the ninth century to the end of the fourteenth century, presents problems of selection and description...

Work and Mobility

Nicholas Dean Brodie

Nicholas Dean Brodie

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A Cultural History of Work in the Medieval Age

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...In a number of respects worker immobility was once seen as a defining element of the medieval period. Historians formerly looked back on the “Middle Ages” as a time largely wedged between the barbarian invasions that despoiled classical...

Vines and Vineyards

Susan Rose

Susan Rose was Senior Research Fellow at Roehampton University, UK, and is now retired. She is the author of The Medieval Sea and Medieval Naval Warfare, 1000–1500. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Wine Trade in Medieval Europe 1000–1500

Continuum, 2011

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...The works of Roman writers on viticulture, especially that by Columella, make it abundantly clear that Romans regarded the making of wine as a commercial enterprise, able to produce a good return on the considerable amount of capital...

Prostitution: The Moral Economy of Medieval Prostitution

Kevin Mummey

Kevin Mummey

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A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Middle Ages

Bloomsbury Academic, 2011

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...Medieval prostitution can be understood as a daily, and nightly, ritual control of the body and as part of a larger project of moral hygiene. Attempts to identify, regulate, and segregate the prostitute, and the resistance to and compliance...

Education

Louise J. Wilkinson

Louise J. Wilkinson is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at Canterbury Christ Church University and author of Women in Thirteenth-Century Lincolnshire, and co-editor of The Rituals and Rhetoric of Queenship: Medieval to Early Modern. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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A Cultural History of Childhood and Family in the Middle Ages

Bloomsbury Academic, 2010

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...A vast spectrum of educational provision existed in the medieval West, in terms of training children and adolescents for adult life. The nature of that provision was neither consistent nor uniform across Europe—it might be determined...

Introduction

Valerie L. Garver

Valerie L. Garver is Associate Professor of History at Northern Illinois University, USA. A specialist in Carolingian social and cultural history, she has published on women, childhood, family, and material culture (especially textiles). She is the author of Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World (2009). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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A Cultural History of Work in the Medieval Age

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...When contemporary popular culture has depicted medieval work—a relatively rare occasion—films, novels, and even television have typically focused on the day-to-day difficulties peasants faced, the dirty conditions in towns and the perils...

Legal Profession

Sara Menzinger

Sara Menzinger

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A Cultural History of Law in the Middle Ages

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...The establishment of the Roman Barbarian kingdoms in the West marked not only the end of law schools, but also the demise of a professional class whose identity had been based for centuries on the acquisition of knowledge through a strict...

Lameness – Los Contrechos

Connie L. Scarborough

Connie L. Scarborough is Professor in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures at Texas Tech University and Co-Director of the Program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Her most recent book, Inscribing the Environment, applies theories of ecocriticism to Medieval Spanish Text. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Viewing Disability in Medieval Spanish Texts : Disgraced or Graced

Amsterdam University Press, 2018

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...Definitions and Theories Old Spanish uses an all-encompassing word for the type of disabilities that will be discussed in this chapter – contrecho. Contrecho can denote one who is deformed, crippled, maimed, lame, hunchbacked, paralyzed...