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English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages (XIVth Century)

English translation · Translated by Lucy Toulmin Smith

by Jean Jules Jusserand

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J. J. Jusserand's English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages (XIVth Century) is an illustrated account of travel in medieval England. Its plates include English knights travelling in August 1399, from a manuscript painted about A.D. 1400, and a common cart. Chapter II, The Ordinary Traveller and the Casual Passer-By, begins with the roads and the heavy carts that creaked along them, some square timbrels made of planks on two wheels and others of slats latticed with a willow trellis.

Elsewhere Jusserand describes where travellers stayed. Only people of high rank were admitted into the monastery proper, while pilgrims and others were housed in a separate guest-house, as at Battle Abbey, and beds stood in the hall of the Maison-Dieu at Dover. Castles and manors received the travelling knight as a courtesy. Another passage quotes Walsingham on the unbelief of some barons, and a passage on a bridge names Peter Colechurch, King John and a list of donors in the bridge chapel.

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Jean Jules Jusserand

Jean Jules Jusserand was a French diplomat, historian, and literary scholar whose long engagement with English culture informed his criticism. What to Expect of Shakespeare began as a lecture delivered to the British Academy and considers how readers and scholars might approach Shakespeare without reducing the plays to rigid formulas.

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Pages
363
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English
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