By Emilie Amt
This anthology brings jointly medieval records and narratives illustrative of the political, social, monetary, and cultural heritage of britain in the course of the heart a while. Authors and matters integrated are either secular and clerical, female and male, powerful and occasional. besides vintage texts, equivalent to the Domesday publication and Magna Carta, the gathering additionally includes fabrics on much less often addressed subject matters, reminiscent of the persecution of Jews, and the writings of a couple of girls, resembling Margery of Kempe and Queen Isabella of Angoulême.
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