Background
Harvey, Barbara Fitzgerald was born on January 21, 1928 in Teignmouth, Devon, England. Daughter of Richard Henry and Anne Fitzgerald (Julian) Harvey.
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This is a fascinating account of daily life in Westminster Abbey, one of medieval England's most important monastic communities. It is also a broad scholarly exploration of some major themes in the social history of the Middle Ages by one of its most distinguished historians. Barbara Harvey exploits the exceptionally rich archives of the Benedictine foundation of Westminster to the full, offering numerous vivid insights into the lives of the Westminster monks, their pensioners, and their patrons. She examines their charitable practices, their food and drink, illness and death, the abbey servants and the institution of corrodies--a key aspect of the abbey's finances. Harvey sets her findings in the context both of other religious institutions and of the secular world. Full of color and interest, Living and Dying in England is a highly readable and authoritative contribution to medieval history.
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Traces the material fortunes of the abbot and convent of Westminster and describes the changing policies which the monks brought to bear on their estates, and the responses of their tenants to those policies.
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Harvey, Barbara Fitzgerald was born on January 21, 1928 in Teignmouth, Devon, England. Daughter of Richard Henry and Anne Fitzgerald (Julian) Harvey.
Bachelor, Somerville College, Oxford, 1949; Master of Arts, BLitt, Somerville College, Oxford, 1953.
Assistant lecturer University Edinburgh, Scotland, 1951-1952. Lecturer Queen Mary College University London, 1952-1955. Tutor Somerville College, Oxford, England, 1955-1993, fellow England, 1956—1993.
Vice principal Somerville College, Oxford, 1976-1979, 81-83.
(Traces the material fortunes of the abbot and convent of ...)
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Fellow Royal History Society (honorary vice president), Society of Antiquaries, British Academy.