Life on a Mediaeval Barony
A Picture of a Typical Feudal Community in the Thirteenth Century
Life on a Mediaeval Barony, published in 1923 by the historian and novelist William Stearns Davis, describes a year in an imaginary French fief, St. Aliquis, around 1220. Davis invents a baron, a castle, a monastery and a market town so that every detail of thirteenth-century life can be shown in place: how the castle wakes, what is eaten and worn, a wedding, the jongleurs and their songs, homage and justice, the education of a nobleman, the dubbing of a knight, a tourney, a siege, the battle of Bouvines, the peasants' round, pilgrimages and relics, the great fair at Pontdebois and the building of its cathedral. The facts are drawn from chronicles and romances and documented in footnotes. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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