12th Century Life: Difference between revisions

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Daily life in the 12th Century.

This set of articles is intended to be a scholarly (i.e. reference your sources) guide to the daily particulars of life in an interesting historical century, particularly in the area of England and France, because these are easier to research. The chief aim is to describe the daily aspects of life (when you ate, how you went shopping, how much it cost, what you did for fun, etc.), rather than the grand historical events (although some of these will be needed to be linked to as background).

12th Century Topics

Money

Shopping

shops
markets
fairs
what to sell?

Food

meal times
common ingredients
food for the poor or piosly destitute
for the rich
recipes
feast food
camp food

Sanitation

Clothing

fabrics
clothing styles
fashion
accessories
12th century underwear
tailors

Entertainment

music
- troubadours
poetry
theatre
drinking (incorporating drinks,taverns, drinking games)
a friend for the night
Games
Literature - books for entertainment
Fools
feast entertainment

Education and learning

Religion

Travel

overland (by Road)
oversea (by boat)
crusades
pilgrimages
foreign places
duties and customs

Achitecture

Romanesque Architecture
churches
house exterior
house interior layout
furniture
other buildings
gardens
Wattle and Daub

History

12th Century
English Monarchs
- Henry I Beauclerc (1100-35)
- King Stephen (1135-54)
- Empress Matilda (1141)
- Henry II (1154-89)
- Richard I the Lionheart (1189-99)
- John Lackland (1199-1216)
crusades

Medicine

War

Noble hierarchy

Crafts (As in what specialist tradesmen do)

Unsorted

Reading

Basic General Books on 12th Century Life (a good place to start)
References cited in above articles
Specialist Books on Aspects of 12th Century Life
Links to good web resources
Novels set in this period
12th Century texts

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 *[[12th_Century_meals|meal times]]
 *common ingredients
+*[[12th_Century_poor_food|food for the poor or piosly destitute]]
-*for the poor
 *for the rich
 *recipes
+*[[12th_Century_feast food|feast food]]
+*[[12th_Century_camp food|camp food]]
 ===Sanitation===
-*sewers, or lack thereof
+*[[12th_Century_sewers|sewers]], or lack thereof
 *[[12th_Century_garderobes|garderobes]]
-*bathing
+*[[12th_Century_bathing|bathing]]
 *[[12th_Century_female_hygiene|female hygiene]]
-*[[12th_Century_food_hygiene|food hygene]]
+*[[12th_Century_food_hygiene|food hygiene]]
 ===Clothing===
 *fabrics
@@ Line 33: / Line 37: @@
 *[[12th_Century_fashion|fashion]]
 *accessories
+*[[12th century underwear]]
 *tailors
 ===Entertainment===
 *music
@@ Line 42: / Line 48: @@
 *[[12th_Century_sex|a friend for the night]]
 *[[12th_Century_Games|Games]]
+*[[12th_Century_Literature|Literature - books for entertainment]]
+*[[12th Century_Fools|Fools]]
+*[[12th Century_feast_entertainment|feast entertainment]]
 ===Education and learning===
+*[[12th_Century_early_schooling|early schooling]]
-*universities
+*[[12th_Century_more_schooling|more schooling]]
-*apprenticeships
+*[[12th_Century_Universities|universities]]
+*[[12th_Century_apprenticeships|apprenticeships]]
+*[[12th_Century_literacy|literacy of the populace including women]]
 ''Religion''
 *the church
 *[[12th_Century_symbolism|a few examples of the symbolism of objects in the 12th century]]
 *[[12th_Century_myth|some 12th Century Myths]]
+*[[12th_century-astrology_astronomy|astronomy and astrology]]
+*[[12th_century_calendar|the calendar and timekeeping]]
 ===Travel===
 *[[12th_Century_overland_travel|overland (by Road)]]
@@ Line 56: / Line 72: @@
 *foreign places
 *duties and customs
+===Achitecture===
+*[[Romanesque Architecture]]
+*churches
+*house exterior
+*house interior layout
+*[[12th_Century_furniture|furniture]]
+*other buildings
+*[[12th_century_gardens|gardens]]
+*[[Wattle and Daub]]
 ===History===
@@ Line 69: / Line 94: @@
 ===Medicine===
-*medicine
+*[[12th_Century_medicine|medicine]]
+*[[12th_Century_childbirth|childbirth]]
-*birth
-*death and cemeteries
+*[[12th_Century_death|death and cemeteries]]
-*hospitals
+*[[12th_Century_hospitals|hospitals]]
+===War===
+*[[12th_Century_armour|armour]]
+*[[12th century fighting equipment]]
 ===Noble hierarchy===
 *
-===Crafts===
+===Crafts (As in what specialist tradesmen do)===
+*[[12th_century_guilds|guilds]]
-(As in what specialist tradesmen do)
+*[[12th_century_crafts|crafts known in the 12th century]]
-*guilds
-*names for specialist craftsmen
+*[[12th_century_craftsmen|names for specialist craftsmen]]
+==Unsorted==
+*[[12th_Century_proverbs|proverbs]]
+*[[12th_Century_animals|animals]]
+*[[12th_Century_plants|plants]]
 ==Reading==
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 *[[12_Century_Links|Links to good web resources]]
 *[[12_Century_novels|Novels set in this period]]
-*[[12_Century_texts|12th Century texts (translations) that are fun to read]]
+*[[12_Century_texts|12th Century texts]]
+[[Category:12th century]]