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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Martha Carlin and David Crouch Klappentext Martha Carlin is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and author of Medieval Southwark and London and Southwark Inventories, 1316-1650: A Handlist of Extents for Debts. David Crouch is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Hull and author of The English Aristocracy, 1070-1272: A Social Transformation and The Birth of Nobility: Constructing Aristocracy in England and France, 950-1300. Zusammenfassung Drawn from two medieval collections of form letters for all manner of business and personal affairs! Lost Letters of Medieval Life depicts early thirteenth-century England through the everyday correspondence of people of all classes! from peasants and shopkeepers to bishops and earls. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Preface List of Abbreviations A Note on Money Introduction —The Lost Letters —Early Formularies —British Library, Additional MS 8167 —Bodleian Library, Fairfax MS 27 —Other Related Formularies —England, 1200?50 —Oxford, c . 1200?50 —Literacy in Early Thirteenth-Century England —Language and Structure of the Letters —Editorial Principles Chapter 1. Money Credit, Debt, and Commerce 1. Legal Agreement for Pledging a Rural Estate 2. An Earl Orders Wine from His Vintner 3. How the Vintner Should Respond if the Earl Has a Good Credit Rating 4. How the Vintner Should Respond if the Earl Does Not Repay His Debts 5. An Earl Orders Cloth from His Draper, to Whom He Owes Money 6. An Earl Orders Furs from His Skinner, to Whom He Owes Money 7. The Manner in Which One Should Write a Positive or Negative Response to a Request 8. Letter of Refusal from a Skinner Ruined by a Fire 9. A Friend Requests Five Marks to Buy Wool 10. A Friend Requests a Loan to Buy Wool and Cloth at the Fair 11. A Man Sends Pledges That His Neighbor Can Use to Secure a Loan The Jews 12. A Friend Begs for Money to Repay a Loan 13. A Letter of Response: Buying a Horse for One's Lord 14. A Letter of Refusal: Rejecting a Subordinate's Request for a Second Loan Household Provisioning and Hospitality 15. Instructions for Writing Orders or Prohibitions: An Earl Orders His Steward to Send Him a Supply of Wine and Ale 16. A Friend Warns Another to Buy Grain Against a Coming Dearth 17. An Archdeacon Sends Word to a Dean About an Impending Visitation by the Bishop 18. A Rural Dean Warns a Priest of an Imminent Visit from the Bishop and Advises Him to Obtain an Appropriate Variety of Foods 19. The King Orders a Sheriff to Commandeer Wine for His Use and Transport for It, and to Deal Sharply with Any Resistance Accounts 20. The Manner of Keeping Accounts 21. Model Manorial Account for a Six-Year Period [September 29, 1222-September 29, 1228] 22. Instructions for Keeping a Travel Account, Followed by a Daily Household Account 23. Further Instructions for Keeping Travel Accounts, Followed by Another Daily Household Account Chapter 2. War and Politics War 24. An Earl Summons His Knights to Military Service Overseas 25. A Knight Responds to a Summons for Military Service by Asking for a Cash Loan to Meet His Expenses 26. A Man Asks a Friend to Make His Excuses to the King for Being Unable to Respond to a Summons 27. A Man Cautions a Friend That He Should Provide for the Knights Committed to His Custody or His Fortune Might Suffer at Court 28. A Man Advises His Friend to Guard Well the Imprisoned Knights in His Charge 29. The Sheriff of Cambridge Orders the Serjeants of a Hundred to Summon Those Who Owe the King Military Service to Assemble at Portsmouth to Go Overseas 30. The King Writes to the Earl of Chester Requ...
