Reference Materials

Basic Bibliography

Advanced Bibliography

Allmand, Christopher, The Hundred Years War: England and France at War c. 1300-1450, Cambridge U., 1988.

Bennett, H. S., Life on the English Manor, Cambridge U., 1948.

Brewer, Derek, Chaucer and His World, Dodd Mead, 1978.

Davenport, Millia, The Book of Costume, Crown, 1984.

Dobson, R. B., ed., The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, 2nd edition, Macmillan, 1983.

Fowler, Kenneth, The Age of Plantagenet and Valois: The Struggle for Supremacy 1328-1498, Elek, 1967.

Gies, Frances & Joseph, Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages, Harper & Row, 1987.

Hammond, P. W. , Food and Feast in Medieval England, Alan Sutton, 1993.

Hanawalt, Barbara A., The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England, Oxford U., 1986.

Hanawalt, Barbara A., Growing up in Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood in History, Oxford U., 1993.

Hicks, Michael, Who’s Who in Late Medieval England, Shepheard-Walwyn, 1991.

Keen, Maurice, English Society in the Later Middle Ages  1348-1500, Penguin Social History of Britain series, 1990.

Hamilton, Bernard, Religion in the Medieval West, Edward Arnold, 1986.

Neubecker, O., Heraldry: Sources, Symbols, and Meaning, McGraw-Hill, 1976.

Newman, Paul B., Daily Life in the Middle Ages, McFarland & Co., Jefferson, 2001.

McKisack, May, The Fourteenth Century, Oxford U., 1991.

Rowling, Marjorie, Everyday Life of Medieval Travellers, Dorset Press, 1971.

Tuchman, Barbara W., A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century, Knopf, 1978.

Wilson, C. Anne, Food and Drink in Britain, Academy Chicago, 1991.

Wright, S., Age of Chivalry: English Society 1200-1400, Warwick Press, 1988.

Arms, Armor, and Military Matters


Bartlett , C. & Embleton, G. , English Longbowman 1330-1515, Osprey, 1997.

Edge, D. and Paddock, J. M., Arms & Armor of the Medieval Knight, Crescent, 1988.

Hardy, Robert, The Longbow: A social and military history, Bois d’arc, 1992.

Hopkins, Andrea, Knights, Quarto Publishing, 1990.

Koch, H. W., Medieval Warfare, Prentice Hall, 1978.

Oakeshott, Ewart, Archaeology of Weapons, Lutterworth Press, 1960.

Rudorff, R., Knights and the Age of Chivalry, The Viking Press, 1974.

Seward, Desmond, The Hundred Years War: The English in France, 1337-1453, Atheneum, 1978.

Trades and Crafts


British Museum Medieval Craftsmen series: Binski, Paul, Painters, 1991

Brown, Sarah & O’Connor, David , Glass-Painters, 1991

Cherry, John, Goldsmiths, 1992

Coldstream, N., Masons and Sculptors, 1991

Eames, Elizabeth, English Tilers, 1992

de Hamel, C., Scribes and Illuminators, 1992

Pfaffenbichler, M., Armourers,1992

Staniland, Kay, Embroiderers, 1991

Bssing, Patricia, Trades and Crafts in Medieval manuscripts, New Amsterdam Books, New York, 1990.

Cosman, Madelaine Palmer, Fabulous Feasts, Medieval Cookery and Ceremony, Braziller, 1989.

Art and Objects


Alexander, J. & Binski, P., Age of Chivalry, Art in Plantagenet England 1200-1400, Royal Academy of Arts, 1987.

Haslam, Jeremy, Medieval Pottery, Shire, 1984

History


Bean, J. M. W., From Lord to Patron: Lordship in Late Medieval England, U. of Pennsylvania, 1989.

Bevan, Bryan, King Richard II, Rubicon, 1990.

Blackley, P. D. & Hermansen, G., The Household Book of Queen Isabella of England, U. of Alberta Classical and Historical Studies, 1971.

Britnell, Richard H., The Commercialization of English Society 1000-1500, 2nd edition, Manchester U., 1996

Cantor, Norman F, The Medieval Reader: First-hand accounts of the Middle Ages including letters, essays, state and church documents, poetry and ballads, Harper Collins, 1994.

England c. 1200-1520, Cambridge Medieval Textbooks, 1989.

Collins, Marie & Davis, Virginia, A Medieval Book of Seasons, HarperCollins, 1992.

Cowie, Richard, The Black Death and Peasants’ Revolt, Wyland Documentary History Series, 1972.

de Pizan, Christine, (trans. Charity Cannon Willard), The Treasure of the City of Ladies, Bard Hall/Persea, 1989.

de Voragine, Jacobus, (trans. William Granger Ryan), The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints, Princeton U., 1993.

Denholm-Young, N., The Country Gentry in the Fourteenth Century, Clarendon, 1969.

Duby, Georges, ed., A History of Private Life, vol. 2: Revelations of the Medieval World, Belknap, 1988.

Dyer, Christopher, Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages: Social Change in Europe in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries (2nd ed.), Longman, 1989.

Froissart, Jean, (trans. Geoffrey Brereton), Chronicles, Penguin, 1978.

Given-Wilson, Chris, The Royal Household and the King’s Affinity: Service, Politics and Finance in England 1360- 1413, Yale U., 1986.

Hanawalt, Barbara A., The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England, Oxford U., 1986.

Hanawalt, Barbara A., Growing up in Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood in History, Oxford U., 1993.

Herlihy, David, Medieval Households, Harvard U., 1985.

Hicks, Michael, Bastard Feudalism, Longman Medieval World series, 1995.

Hilton, R. H. &Aston, T. H., eds., The English Rising of 1381, Cambridge U., 1984.

Hooke, Delia, ed., Medieval Villages, Oxford U. Committee for Archaeology, 1985.

Howard, Donald R., Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World, Fawcett, 1987.

Jusserand, J. J. (trans. Lucy Toulmin Smith), English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages (XIVth Century), Ernest Benn, 1931.

Labarge, Margaret Wade, Gascony: England’s First Colony 1204-1453, Hamish Hamilton, 1980.

Le Goff, Jacques, ed. (trans. Lydia G. Cochrane), The Medieval World, Collins & Brown History of European Society series, 1980.

Loomis, Roger Sherman, A Mirror of Chaucer’s World, Princeton, 1965.

Matthew, Gervase, The Court of Richard II, John Murray, 1968.

Myers, A. R., London in the Age of Chaucer, U. of Oklahoma, 1972.

Ohler, Norbert (trans. Caroline Hillier), The Medieval Traveller, Boydell, 1989.

Orme, Nicholas, From Childhood to Chivalry: The Education o f the English Kings and Aristocracy 1066-1530, Methuen, 1984.

Oxley, John, ed., Excavations at Southampton Castle, Southampton City Museums,

Origo, Iris, The Merchant of Prato, Folio Society, 1984.

Pantin, W. A., The English Church in the Fourteenth Century, U. of Toronto, 1980.

Platt, C. P. S., Medieval Southampton: The Port and Trading Community AD 1000-1600, Rutledge & Kegan Paul, 1973.

Rickert, Edith, Chaucer’s World, Oxford U., 1948.

Saul, Nigel, Richard II , Yale university Press, New Haven and London, 1997.

Shahar, Shulamith, Childhood in the Middle Ages, Routledge, 1992.

Sumption, Jonathan, The Hundred Years War (3 volumes so far), University of Pennsylvania Press

Speedwell, Peter, ed., Those who Fought, Italica, 1996.

Speedwell, Peter, ed., Those who Prayed, Italica, 1997.

Speedwell, Peter, ed., Those who Worked, Italica, 1997.

Spufford, Peter, Money and Its Use in Medieval Europe, Cambridge U., 1988.

Swanson, R. N., Church & Society in Late Medieval England, Blackwell, 1993.

Tuck,, Anthony, Crown and Nobility 1272-1461: Political Conflict in Late Medieval England, Barnes & Noble, 1986.

Turner, Barbara Carpenter, A History of Hampshire, Phillimore, 1988.

Uitz, Erika, (trans. Sheila Marnie), The Legend of Good Women: Medieval Women in Towns & Cities, MoyerBell, 1990.

Walker, Simon, The Lancastrian Affinity 1361-1399, Oxford Historical Monographs, 1990.

Ward, Jennifer C., English Noblewomen in the Later Middle Ages, Longman Medieval World series, 1992.

Ward, Jennifer C., Women of the English Nobility and Gentry, Manchester U., 1995.

Waugh, Scott L., England in the Reign of Edward III, Cambridge U., 1991.

Woolgar, C. M., ed., Household Accounts from Medieval England, Oxford U., 1992.

Wright, Nicolas, Knights and Peasants: The Hundred Years War in the French Countryside, Boydell, 1998.

Military Matters


Ascham, Roger, Toxophilus: the school of shooting, The Simon Archery Foundation, 1985.

Ayton, Andrew, Knights and Warhorses: Military Service and the English Aristocracy Under Edward III, Boydell, 1994.

Barber, Richard, Edward Prince of Wales and Aquitaine: A Biography of the Black Prince, Allen Lane, 1978.

Barber, Richard, The Life and Campaigns of the Black

Prince from Contemporary Letters, Diaries, and Chronicles, Folio Society, 1979.

Barber, Richard, The Reign of Chivalry, St. Martin’s Press,1980.

Barnie, John, War in Medieval English Society: Social Values and the Hundred Years War 1337-99, Cornell U., 1974.

Blair, Claude, European Armour, Batsford, 1958.

Bradbury, Jim, The Medieval Archer, St. Martin’s, 1985.

Curry, A. & Hughes, M., (ed.), Arms. Armies and Fortifications of the Hundred Years War, Boydell, 1994.

Coss, Peter, The Knight in Medieval England 1000-1400, Alan Sutton, 1993.

Davis, R. H. C., The Medieval Warhorse, Thames & Hudson, 1989.

Ffoilkes, Charles, The Armourer and his Craft, Dover Hyland, Anne, The Medieval Warhorse, Sutton, 1994.

Hyland, Anne, The Warhorse 1250-1600, Sutton, 1998. Nicolle, David, Medieval Warfare Source Book, Vol. 1,

Arms and Armour, 1995. Oakeshott, Ewart, Records of the Medieval Sword, Boydell, 1991.

Oakeshott, Ewart, The Sword in the Age of Chivalry, Boydell, 1991.

Prestwich, Michael, Armies and Warfare in the Middle Ages: The English Experience, Yale U., 1996.

Rossi, Francesco Rossi, Mediaeval Arms and Armour, Magna 1990.

Trapp, Oswald Graf, The Armoury of the Castle of Cherbourg, Methuen & Co., 1929.

various, Royal Armouries Yearbook, Vol. 1 & 2, 1996,1997.

Everyday Life


Arano, Luisa Cogliati, The Medieval Health Handbook, Braziller, 1976.

Austin, Thomas, ed., Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery- Books, E.E.T.S. O.S.91, 1996.

Bayard, Tania, A Medieval Home Companion, HarperCollins, 1991.

Butler, Sharon & Hiett, Consteance B., Pleyn Delit, U. of Toronto, 1987.

Dyer, Christopher, Everyday Life in Medieval England, Hambledon, 1994.

Firnivall, F. J. (ed.), The Babees Book, E.E.T.S. O.S.32, 1997.

Hartley, D. & Eliot, M. M., Life and Work of the People of England: The Fourteenth Century, Putnam, 1929.

Henisch, Bridget Ann, Fast and Feast: Food in Medieval Society, Pennsylvania State U., 1996.

Hiett, Constance B., An Ordinance of Pottage, Prospect Books, 1988.

Hiett, P. W. & Butler, S., Curye on Inglysch, E.E.T.S. S.S.8, 1985.

Milham, Mary Ella, Platina: On Right Pleasure and Good Health, Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1998.

Ogden, Margaret Sinclair, ed., The “Liber de Dicersis Medicinis,’ E.E.T.S., 1969.

Power, Eileen, The Goodman of Paris, Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1928

Rawcliffe, Carole, Medicine & Society in Later Medieval England, Sutton, 1995.

Reeves, Compton, Pleasures and Pastimes in Medieval England, Oxford U., 1998.

Redon, O., Sabban, F., & Serventi, S., The Medieval Kitchen, U. of Chicago, 1998.

Rowling, Marjorie, Everyday Life in Medieval Times, Batsford, 1968.

Scully, Terrence, The Art of Cookery in the Middle Ages, Boydell, 1995.

Scully, Terrence, The Vivandier, Prospect, 1997.

Spenser, J., trans., The Four Seasons of the House of Cerruti, Facts on File, 1984.

Wilson, C. Anne, Food and Drink in Britain, Academy Chicago, 1991.

Illuminations and Illustrations


Arano, Luisa Cogliati, The Medieval Health Handbook, Braziller, 1976.

Austin, Thomas, ed., Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery- Books, E.E.T.S. O.S.91, 1996.

Bayard, Tania, A Medieval Home Companion, HarperCollins, 1991.

Butler, Sharon & Hiett, Consteance B., Pleyn Delit, U. of Toronto, 1987.

Dyer, Christopher, Everyday Life in Medieval England, Hambledon, 1994.

Firnivall, F. J. (ed.), The Babees Book, E.E.T.S. O.S.32, 1997.

Hartley, D. & Eliot, M. M., Life and Work of the People of England: The Fourteenth Century, Putnam, 1929.

Henisch, Bridget Ann, Fast and Feast: Food in Medieval Society, Pennsylvania State U., 1996.

Hiett, Constance B., An Ordinance of Pottage, Prospect Books, 1988.

Hiett, P. W. & Butler, S., Curye on Inglysch, E.E.T.S. S.S.8, 1985.

Milham, Mary Ella, Platina: On Right Pleasure and Good Health, Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1998.

Ogden, Margaret Sinclair, ed., The “Liber de Dicersis Medicinis,’ E.E.T.S., 1969.

Power, Eileen, The Goodman of Paris, Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1928

Rawcliffe, Carole, Medicine & Society in Later Medieval England, Sutton, 1995.

Reeves, Compton, Pleasures and Pastimes in Medieval England, Oxford U., 1998.

Redon, O., Sabban, F., & Serventi, S., The Medieval Kitchen, U. of Chicago, 1998.

Rowling, Marjorie, Everyday Life in Medieval Times, Batsford, 1968.

Scully, Terrence, The Art of Cookery in the Middle Ages, Boydell, 1995.

Scully, Terrence, The Vivandier, Prospect, 1997.

Spenser, J., trans., The Four Seasons of the House of Cerruti, Facts on File, 1984.

Wilson, C. Anne, Food and Drink in Britain, Academy Chicago, 1991.

Objects and Archaeological Sources


Athin, Carter & Evans, Excavations in Norwich 1971-1978, East Anglian Archaeology, 1985

Biddle, M., Object and Economy in Medieval Winchester,Oxford U., 1990.

Burckhardt, Monica, Mobilier Moyen-Age Rennaissance, Ch. Massie.

Chinnery, Vicot, Oak Furniture, the British Tradition, Antique Collectors’ Club, 1988.

Cowgill, J., de Neergaard, M. & Griffiths, N., Knives and Scabbards, HMSO, London, 1987.

Cunliffe, Barry, Excavations at Porchester Castle, vols., 3 & 4, Thames and Hudson, 1977.

Eames, Penelope, Furniture in England, France and the Netherlands from the Twelveth to the Fifteenth Century, Furniture History Society, 1977.

Egan, G., The Medieval Household: Daily Living c.1150-c.1450, The Stationer’s Office, 1998.

Husband, T. B. and Hayward, J., The Secular Spirit: Life and Art at the End of the Middle Ages, Dutton, New York, 1975.

Margeson, Sue et al, Norwich Households, East Anglian Archaeology, 1993

McCarty, M. R. & Brooks, C. M., Medieval Pottery in Britain AD 900-1600, Leicester U., 1988.

Mercer, Eric, Furniture 700-1700, Meredith Press, 1969.

Perkins, Ward, London Museum Medieval Catalogue 1940, Anglia, 1993.

Platt, C. & Coleman-Smith, R., Excavations in Medieval Southampton, Leicester U., 1975.

Spenser, B., Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum Medieval Catalogue, Parts 1 & 2, Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum, 1990.

Wanscher, Ole, Sella Curulis, the Folding Stool, Rosenkilde & Bagger, 1980.

Trades and Crafts


Blair, John & Ramsay, Nigel, eds., English Medieval Industries, Hambledon, 1991.

Basing, Patricia, Trades and Crafts in Medieval Manuscripts, New Amsterdam, 1990

Cennini, Cennino d’Andrea (trans. Daniel V. Thompson, Jr.), Il Libro dell’Arte, Dover, 1960.

Crossley, D. W., ed., Medieval Industry, Council for British Archaeology, 1981.

Salzman, L. F., English Industries of the Middle Ages, Clarendon, 1923 .

Theophilus (trans. John G. Hawthorne & Cyril Stanley Smith), On Divers Arts, Dover, 1979.

Thompson, Daniel V., The Materials and Techniques of Medieval Painting, Dover, 1956.

Medical Practice


Bleeding: Luttrell Psalter, English, c. 1340 (British Library, Add. Ms.42130, f. 61r)

Surgical tools: John of Arderne, Medical Treatise, English, 2nd quarter 15th century (British Library, Sloane 6, f. 177v)

Medical equipment: John of Arderne, Medical Treatise, English, 2nd quarter 15th century (British Library, Sloane 6, f. 175v)

Apothecary shop: Roger Frugard of Parma, Chirurgia, French, 1st quarter 14th century (British Library, Sloane 1977, f. 49v)

Boneset: Sarapion the Younger, Carrara Herbal, northern Italy, between c. 1390 and 1404 (British Library, Egerton 2020, f. 53v)

Hospital: Avicenna, Canon, 15th century, (Biblioteca Laurenziana, Gaddi 24, folio 247v)

Splinting: Roger Frugard of Parma, Chirurgia, French, 1st quarter 14th century (British Library, Sloane 1977, f. 9v)

Costume and Adornment


Antiquities Journal volume 36.

Arnold, Janet, The Jupon or Coat-Armour of the Black Prince in Canterbury Cathedral, Journal of the Church Monument Society Vol. VIII, 1993.

Beniss, Elijah, The Dyer’s Companion, Dover, 1973. Burnham, Dorothy K., Cut My Cote, Royal Ontario Museum, 1973.

Bury, Shirley, An Introduction to Rings, Stemmer House, Owings Mills, 1984.

Clayton, Muriel, Catalogue of Rubbings of Brasses and Incised Slabs, HMSO, 1979.

Crowfoot, E., Pritchard, F. & Staniland, K., Textiles and Clothing, HMSO, 1992.

Egan, G. & Pritchard, F., Dress Accessories, HMSO, 1991.

Evans, Joan, Dress in Medieval France, Clarendon, 1952.

Fingerlin, Ilse, Gürtel des hohen und späten Mittelalters, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1971.

Fischbach, Fredrick, Historic Textiles Patterns, Dover, 1992.LIOGRAPHY

Geijer, A., Franzér A. N., & Nockert, M., Drottning Margarettas gullene kjortel (Queen Margaret’s Golden Gown)

History and Everyday Life