| The Salt of Common Life: Individuality and Choice in the Medieval Town, Countryside, and Church: Essays Presented to J. Ambrose Raftis Contributor(s): Dewindt, Edwin Brezette (Editor) |
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ISBN: 187928846X ISBN-13: 9781879288461 Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - Rural - History | Europe - Medieval - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 307.720 |
| LCCN: 95030224 |
| Series: Studies in Medieval Culture (Medieval Inst. Publications) |
| Physical Information: (0.37 lbs) 562 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The essays within this volume, produced in honor of J. Ambrose Raftis, are united by two themes significant in Raftis's career: a belief in the fundamental individuality of medieval English men and women, and a belief in their ability to make choices. However much environment, custom, social structure, and even biology might constrain or otherwise affect personal behavior, the men and women who appear in the often laconic entries of medieval court rolls were distinctive, one-of-a-kind persons, and their actions-their deeds and their misdeeds, their triumphs and their failures, their fortunes and their follies-were often the result of choices they had made. That is the medieval world of J. Ambrose Raftis, and it is that world, and that vision, that this book honors. |
