EVERYDAY LIFE OF MEDIEVAL TRAVELERS, Rowling /Batsford

EVERYDAY LIFE OF MEDIEVAL TRAVELERS, by  Marjories Rowling. One of the series of scholarly volumes in this series. 1971. Batsford Putnam. Illustrated with old prints, paintings, architecture and drawing by John Mansbridge. Very nice hardbound with dust jacket and plastic protector.

 208 pages.

   " The Middle Ages are too often seen as a period when time stood still, and when all but the armies stayed at home. To counterbalance this view, Marjorie Rowling here tells the story of the many men and women who, from choice or necessity, crossed the boundaries imposed by parish and principality or by sea and mountains. By way of inns, over bridges, down rivers, and along the roads of western Christendom move the constant throng of travelers who will be met in the pictures and text of this book. Kings pass, marching to war with all the pageantry of medieval campaigning, bishops ride on stately visits, magnates and gentry progress from manor to manor, crusaders and pilgrims follow the call of religion. Hastening across Europe go merchants, tireless kings' messengers, and master masons, carpenters, painters and sculptors ever eager to begin a new cathedral. Bands of entertainers, and scholars restlessly searching for greater learning, wander from town to city. A furtive, hunted serf fleeing from insufferable conditions, an outlaw evading justice, a host of vagabonds and beggars tramping the muddy highways, all contribute to a living panorama of the age.

   By skillful use of many revealing, and often amusing quatations, and with plentiful illustrations, the author unfold an intricate tapestry of the medieval traveller and his myriad journeys."

   Chapters: Roads Bridges and Hospitality, Sea-Routes Ports and Ships, Merchants and Explorers, Royalty Magnates and Messengers, Soldiers and Free Companies, Outlaws and Vagabond, Wandering Entertainers, Wandering Scholars, Doctors and the Diseased, Masons Sculptors and Carpenters, Hermits and Pilgrims, Crusaders, Parish Priests Pardoners and Friars, Bishops, Monks and Abbots,   Bibliography, Chronology, and  Index.

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