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Daily life in the 12th Century.

This set of articles is intended to be a scholarly (ie 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. This is mostly aimed at describing 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 too).

12th Century Topics

Money

coins
significance and use of purses
taxes
foreign coin
worth of goods

Shopping

shops
markets
fairs
what to sell?

Food

meal times
common ingredients
for the poor
for the rich
recipes

Sanitation

sewers, or lack thereof
garderrobes
bathing
female hygene
food hygene

Clothing

fabrics
clothing styles
fashion
acessories
taylors

Entertainment

music
- troubadours
poetry
theatre

Education

universities
apprenticeships

Religion

the church

Travel

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

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

medicine
birth
death and cemetaries
hospitals

Noble heirachy

Crafts

As in what specialist tradesmen do

guilds
names for specialist craftsmen

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 (translations) that are fun to read

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 This set of articles is intended to be a scholarly (ie 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.  This is mostly aimed at describing 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 too).
+==12th Century Topics==
-''Money''
+===Money===
 *[[12C_coins| coins]]
 *[[12_Century_purses|significance and use of purses]]
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 *foreign coin
 *worth of goods
-''Shopping''
+===Shopping===
 *[[12_Century_shops|shops]]
 *[[12_Century_markets|markets]]
 *[[12_Century_fairs|fairs]]
 *what to sell?
-''Food''
+===Food===
 *[[12_Century_meals|meal times]]
 *common ingredients
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 *for the rich
 *recipes
-''Sanitation''
+===Sanitation===
 *sewers, or lack thereof
 *[[12_Century_garderrobes|garderrobes]]
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 *[[12_Century_female_hygene|female hygene]]
 *[[12_Century_food_hygene|food hygene]]
-''Clothing''
+===Clothing===
 *fabrics
 *clothing styles
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 *acessories
 *taylors
-''Entertainment''
+===Entertainment===
 *music
 ** [[troubadour]]s
 *poetry
 *theatre
-''Education''
+===Education===
 *universities
 *apprenticeships
 ''Religion''
 *the church
-''Travel''
+===Travel===
 *[[12_Century_overland_travel|overland (by Road)]]
 *[[12_Century_oversea_travel|oversea (by boat)]]
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 *duties and customs
-''History''
+===History===
 *[[12th Century]]
 *[[English Monarchs]]
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 *[[crusades]]
-''Medicine''
+===Medicine===
 *medicine
 *birth
 *death and cemetaries
 *hospitals
-''Noble heirachy''
+===Noble heirachy===
 *
+===Crafts===
-''Crafts'' (as in what specialist tradesmen do)
+As in what specialist tradesmen do
 *guilds
 *names for specialist craftsmen
-*
-'''Reading'''
+==Reading==
 *[[12_Century_bibliography|Basic General Books on 12th Century Life (a good place to start)]]
 *[[12_Century_References|References cited in above articles]]