English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages (XIVth Century)
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- ENGLISH WAYFARING LIFE in the MIDDLE AGES (XIVth Century) by J. J. JUSSERAND
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I ENGLISH ROADS
- CHAPTER I ROADS AND BRIDGES
- CHAPTER II THE ORDINARY TRAVELLER AND THE CASUAL PASSER-BY
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- CHAPTER III SECURITY OF THE ROADS
- PART II LAY WAYFARERS
- INTRODUCTORY NOTE
- CHAPTER I HERBALISTS, CHARLATANS, MINSTRELS, JUGGLERS, AND TUMBLERS
- CHAPTER II MESSENGERS, ITINERANT MERCHANTS AND PEDLARS
- CHAPTER III OUTLAWS, WANDERING WORKMEN, AND PEASANTS OUT OF BOND
- PART III RELIGIOUS WAYFARERS
- CHAPTER I WANDERING PREACHERS AND FRIARS
- CHAPTER II THE PARDONERS
- CHAPTER III PILGRIMS AND PILGRIMAGES
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- CONCLUSION
- APPENDIX
- I (p. 44) PATENT OF KING JOHN ENTRUSTING A FRENCHMAN WITH THE COMPLETION OF LONDON BRIDGE (1201)
- II (p. 53) PETITION CONCERNING AN OLD BRIDGE, WHOSE ARCHES WERE TOO LOW AND TOO NARROW TO PERMIT BOATS TO PASS
- III (p. 62) LONDON BRIDGE AND ITS MAINTENANCE
- IV (p. 65) INQUESTS RELATING TO THE MAINTENANCE OF BRIDGES
- V (p. 92) THE KING’S JOURNEYS-PETITIONS AND STATUTES CONCERNING THE ROYAL PURVEYORS
- VI (p. 112) THE RECURRENCE OF LEET-DAYS AND VISITS OF JUSTICES
- VII (p. 115) THE DRESS OF THE WORLDLY MONK
- VIII (p. 120) EXACTIONS OF CERTAIN NOBLEMEN WHEN TRAVELLING
- IX (p. 130) PASSAGE OF THE HUMBER IN A FERRY
- X (pp. 165 and 171) THE RIGHT OF SANCTUARY
- XI (p. 211) A MONOPOLY OF MINSTRELSY FOR THE KING’S (EDWARD IV) OWN MINSTRELS
- XII (p. 213) POPULAR ENGLISH SONGS OF THE MIDDLE AGES
- XIII (p. 314) INDULGENCES AND THE THEORY OF THE “TREASURY” ACCORDING TO POPE CLEMENT VI
- XIV (p. 321) SERMON ACCOMPANYING THE DISPLAY OF A PAPAL BULL (ON THE OCCASION OF THE COMING OF HENRY OF LANCASTER)
- XV (pp. 324, 327, 337) ECCLESIASTICAL DOCUMENTS CONCERNING CHIEFLY ENGLISH PARDONERS
- Richard de Bury on the Pardoners, A.D. 1340:
- Provincial Synod of Dublin, 1348:
- Bull of Pope Urban V, “contra quæstores hospitalis Jerusalem in Anglia,” 1369:
- Letter of Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury, A.D. 1378:
- Bull of Pope Boniface IX, A.D. 1390:
- Opinion of the University of Oxford on Pardoners, A.D. 1414:
- Suppression of pardoners by the Council of Trent, A.D. 1562:
- XVI (p. 344) THE FIRST RECORDED CRUCIFIX IN ENGLAND SCULPTURED FROM LIFE
- XVII (p. 141, 362) THE PILGRIMAGE OF REYNARD
- ENDNOTES:
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I — ENGLISH ROADS
- PART II — LAY WAYFARERS
- PART III — RELIGIOUS WAYFARERS
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
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