Household Accounts from Medieval England: Part 2: Diet Accounts (ii)

This volume completes the publication of a unique source for historians of the later medieval nobility. Household accounts contain invaluable evidence on daily life as well as on medieval finance generally. In Part 2, Dr Woolgar has carefully selected and edited the accounts of fourteen households, illustrating the full variety of texts that have survived. They include special accounts for expenses on jewels, furs, cloth, and armour. Dr
Woolgar has also provided a complete catalogue of extant medieval English household accounts.