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The households of medieval kings were in many ways simply aristocratic households on a larger scale: as the Burgundian court chronicler Georges Chastellain observed of the splendidly ordered court of the dukes of Burgundy, "after the deeds and exploits of war, which are claims to glory, the household is the first thing that strikes the eye, and ...
Detail of a miniature from a 15th-century manuscript. Le Ménagier de Paris (French: [lə menaʒje də paʁi]; often abbreviated as Le Ménagier; English: "The Parisian Household Book" [1]) is a French medieval guidebook from 1393 on a woman's proper behaviour in marriage and running a household.
A housebook is a manuscript commissioned by the noble elite or wealthy citizens with a pedagogic content. A distinction is made between three different types of texts collected in the housebooks: how to manage a household, descriptions of weapons (as for example the Housebook of Wolfegg Castle), and spiritual texts for home use.
Peasant homes in medieval England were centered around the hearth while some larger homes may have had separate areas for food processing like brewhouses and bakehouses, and storage areas like barns and granaries. There was almost always a fire burning, sometimes left covered at night, because it was easier than relighting the fire.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... A poultry was the office in a medieval household responsible for the purchase and preparation of ...
A chandlery (/ ˈ tʃ æ n d l ər i / or / ˈ tʃ ɑː n d-/) [1] was originally the office in a wealthy medieval household responsible for wax and candles, as well as the room in which the candles were kept. It could be headed by a chandler. The office was subordinated to the kitchen, and only existed as a separate office in larger households.
Peasants preparing the fields next to the medieval Louvre Castle for the winter with a harrow and sowing for the winter grain, from The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry, c. 1410. Medieval demography is the study of human demography in Europe and the Mediterranean during the Middle Ages. It estimates and seeks to explain the number of people ...
The Treasury, or Exchequer, was already separate from the household of the king by the time the document was composed; [6] for, although the head of the treasury, the Treasurer, was listed in the document, [7] the rest of the treasury officials are not covered. [6] It covers the whole of the domus regis, or household of the king. [8]