Life on a Mediaeval Barony

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Life on a Mediaeval Barony has the subtitle A Picture of a Typical Feudal Community in the Thirteenth Century. William Stearns Davis, Ph.D., Professor of History in the University of Minnesota, is named as author, and the book is described as illustrated. The first edition is dated 1923.

The contents list chapters on the fief of St. Aliquis and its denizens, the castle, how the castle wakes with baronial hospitality, games and diversions including falconry and hunting, the baroness's garden, the life of the women, clothes and a feudal wedding, and cookery and mealtimes. One passage praises Baron Conon, who has ruled for more than ten years, agreed a settlement with the abbey over the income of a farm and held to his point about hunting rights with the Bishop of Pontdebois. Another discusses parish priests, weighing complaints against them with the good that many do.

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William Stearns Davis

William Stearns Davis (1877-1930) was an American historian and novelist known for richly detailed historical fiction set in the ancient world, blending scholarship with vivid storytelling.