Charity -- Diet -- Sickness and its treatment -- Mortality -- Servants -- Corrodies
Appendices: 1. Charitable giving at Westminster Abbey, c.1510 -- c.1530 -- 2. Catering in the refectory and misericord at Westminster Abbey c.1495 -- c.1525: numbers and messes -- 3. Apothecaries, physicians, and surgeons employed by the Abbot and Covent of Westminster, c.1300 -- 1540 -- 4. Estimating the life-expectancy of the monks of Westminster / Jim Oeppen -- 5. Corrodians of Westminster Abbey, 1100 -- 1540
Analysis
Christianity Monks
London (England)
Notes
"Delivered in the University of Oxford in Hilary Term 1989."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-268) and index
