YEAR IN THE LIFE OF MEDIEVAL ENGLAND

Historian Toni Mount has scoured chronicles, manor court rolls, coroners’ rolls and the records of city councils to provide an account of mediaeval life as it was really lived, with an entry for each day of the year. We learn not only of the royals and nobles of official history but also the quarrels of a miscellany of extraordinary ordinary people, including William and Christopher of York, Nalle Kittewritte who stole her neighbours’ washing, and Margery from Hereford, murdered by an Oxford student.