12th Century Life
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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
Food
- meal times
- common ingredients
- for the poor
- for the rich
- recipes
Sanitation
- sewers, or lack thereof
- garderobes
- bathing
- female hygiene
- food hygene
Clothing
- fabrics
- clothing styles
- fashion
- accessories
- tailors
Entertainment
- music
- poetry
- theatre
- drinking (incorporating drinks,taverns, drinking games)
- a friend for the night
- Games
Education and learning
- universities
- apprenticeships
Religion
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 cemeteries
- hospitals
Noble hierarchy
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
