Book description
Using wide-ranging evidence, Martyn Whittock shines a light on Britain in the Middle Ages. Bringing it vividly to life in this fascinating new portrait that brings together the everyday and the extraordinary.
Thus we glimpse 11th-century rural society through a conversation between a ploughman and his master.
The life of Dick Whittington illuminates the rise of the urban elite. The stories of Roger 'the Raker’ who drowned in his own sewage, a 'merman’ imprisoned in Orford Castle and the sufferings of the Jews of Bristol reveal the extraordinary diversity of medieval society.
Through these characters and events the dynamic and engaging panorama of medieval England is revealed.
