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William Stearns Davis. Life on a Mediaeval Barony
Life on a Mediaeval Barony
Table of Contents
Illustrations
Preface
Chapter I: The Fief of St. Aliquis: Its History and Denizens
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Chapter II: The Castle of St. Aliquis
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Chapter III: How the Castle Wakes. Baronial Hospitality
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Chapter IV: Games and Diversions. Falconry and Hunting. The Baroness' Garden
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Chapter V: The Family of the Baron. Life of the Women
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Chapter VI: The Matter of Clothes. A Feudal Wedding
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Chapter VII: Cookery and Mealtimes
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Chapter VIII: The Jongleurs and Secular Literature and Poetry
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Chapter IX: The Feudal Relationship. Doing Homage
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Chapter X: Justice and Punishments
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Chapter XI: The Education of a Feudal Nobleman
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Chapter XII: Feudal Weapons and Horses. Dubbing a Knight
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Chapter XIII: The Tourney
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Chapter XIV: A Baronial Feud. The Siege of a Castle
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Chapter XV: A Great Feudal Battle—Bouvines
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Chapter XVI: The Life of the Peasants
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Chapter XVII: Charity. Care of the Sick. Funerals
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Chapter XVIII: Popular Religion. Pilgrimages. Superstitions. Relic Worship
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Chapter XIX: The Monastery of St. Aliquis[89]: Buildings. Organization. An Ill-Ruled Abbey
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Chapter XX: The Monastery of St. Aliquis: The Activities of Its Inmates. Monastic Learning
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Chapter XXI: The Good Town of Pontdebois: Aspect and Organization
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Chapter XXII: Industry and Trade in Pontdebois. The Great Fair
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Chapter XXIII: The Lord Bishop. The Canons. The Parish Clergy
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Chapter XXIV: The Cathedral and Its Builders
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Index
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William Stearns Davis
A Picture of a Typical Feudal Community in the Thirteenth Century
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Besides these workshops there is a long storehouse, a repository for not merely the food, but all other kinds of supplies needful in a siege. Near by stands a smaller, shedlike structure, puzzling at first to strangers, but which explains itself by the shrill screams and cries issuing thence. It is the baron's hawk house, the mews, where the chief falconer is now feeding the raw meat to the great hawks and falcons in which his noble masters take delight. Close to these secular buildings, however, there rises somewhat incongruously an elegant Gothic chapel, with soaring pinnacles, a rose window at the end of the small nave, sculptured saints flanking the portal, and within one finds glorious stained glass, more saints' images and carvings, and a rich altar. This is the little castle church to which very many dwellers of St. Aliquis, including messire and madame, had repaired piously at gray dawn, and where now good Father Grégoire has just finished a rather hasty mass.
The bailey, in short, is overrunning with activities. Horses are neighing, cows are being milked, an overladen donkey is braying. Yonder in one corner is a small building with a tall chimney. Here is the seigneur's great oven, whither not merely the castle folk, but a great number of the peasants, resort to bake their bread. In front of the chapel bubbles a little fountain, and chattering women, scantily attired, are filling their water pots. Children in various degrees of nakedness and dirtiness play everywhere. Noises of every kind blend in a hubbub. Lastly we notice, close to the inner drawbridge, another building again with a tall chimney. This is the castle cookhouse, where the dinners are prepared for the great hall within. A glance through the door shows the vast fireplace where one can roast a whole sheep or a small beef entire. The cookhouse is located here because of the danger of fire in the inner castle, and because the position is convenient for the great number of the servitors who must eat in their barracks. When it is mealtime, however, this arrangement compels a prodigious running to and fro all through the dinner hour between kitchen and hall on the part of the twenty-odd sergeants and squires who serve Baron Conon's guests and family. It bothers not the appetites of pious Christians that their food is cooked amid contending odors and that many of the doings near the cookhouse make its condition extraordinarily unsanitary.
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