This book explores the experience of childhood and adolescence in later medieval English rural society from 1250 to 1450. Hit by major catastrophes – the Great Famine and then a few decades later the Black Death – this book examines how rural society coped with children left orphaned, and land inherited by children and adolescents considered too young to run their holdings. Using manorial court rolls, accounts and other documents, Miriam Müller looks at the guardians who look...
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Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Vulnerable Members of the Community.- Chapter 3: Inheritance, Rights and Goods.- Chapter 4: Looking after Underaged Heirs.- Chapter 5:...
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Miriam Müller is Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Birmingham, UK. She has published widely on various aspects of medieval social and economic ...