My new book, London: A Fourteenth-Century City and Its People, is out now! It's a social history of the city and its inhabitants from 1300 to 1350, with dozens of short chapters on numerous aspects of life, such as Health, Houses, Food, Misadventure, Gardens. Privies, Belongings, Assault, Murder, and many others.
If you lived in London in the fourteenth century and a physician diagnosed you with tisik or a posteme, what were you suffering from? What were penitourtes, evecheping and deodand? What jobs did women called cambesteres. callesteres and frutesteres do? If you were accused of being a rorere or a pikere, was this a good thing or not? What was the murder rate like in fourteenth-century London and what happened to criminals? What happened to the drunk and disorderly? How much would you have to pay to rent a house in London, and what would your accommodation be like? What did people do in their spare time? What did they eat and drink, and where? The answers to all these questions and hundreds more are in the book!
I have TWO free copies to give away to readers! You can live anywhere in the world, as long as you have a postal address I can send the book to. Please contact me with your email address or some other means of getting in touch with you, so I can notify the winners. You can either leave a comment here on the blog, on my Edward II Facebook page or on my Twitter page, or you can email me at edwardofcaernarfon(at)yahoo(dot)com, or if we're friends on Facebook or follow each other on Twitter, you can message me there. Best of luck! Deadline is midnight BST on 20 July.
19 comments:
Would be most interested in receiving one of your books, an an amateur family historian- archivist and a descendant
Would be most interested in receiving a copy of your book. I'm an amateur family historian- archivist, and an descendant
Hello! I think your book sounds wonderful and fits my exact area of interest, I would feel so lucky if I won a free copy but if not, I will gladly pay for one! Wish you luck with the book
-Mary Mitchell
Well, what can I say. Not only am I fascinated by the ordinary person and the everyday trials and tribulations of medieval daily life (it's not all about the rich and famous 😉), the 14th century has to be one of the most interesting in our history. As I grew up on the outskirts of London, this book will tick every box for me both as a reader, researcher and author 👍
Would loooooove this - just finished my MA dissertation on this period
Omg! I would love a copy! History is one of my passions along with genealogy.
Debbie at Roadangel8@aol.com
Sounds amazing. I am working on a book addressing g14th century cities and would love a copy.
I love your books Kathryn, have read most of the others. Would love to add this to the collection to read.
If I don’t win the book, I will buy it! That likely doesn’t help my case! It looks excellent.
I’d love one!
Would love to receive a copy of this but will buy one for sure. I'm not an expert or anything; just someone who loves reading interesting books - specifically history books.
Congratulations. I've purchased at least six of your books and can't for for this one to reach Kindle status.
I do genealogical research and have so many 'ancient' ancestors all around the British Isles and have found your posts, here, and your texts quite helpful.
Hello everyone, thank you for the comments!
I'll reiterate what's already been said on here. Looks like a fascinating book, and I'd love to read it
Looks like exciting new fodder for the budding London researcher! Can't wait to discover :)
Cheers!
Kathleen
Would love to read this as I'm totally addicted to any info about the middle ages.
Mss50099@yahoo.com
Ooh ooh! Me please!
I would enjoy receiving a copy of your book as we have traced our family name Compton back to the court of Henry viii and this would add more layers of detail and make our history more 'real' today 8
I love books on social history and this time period. Thank you for the chance.
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