SC - OT - recipe from Murrell

[Christina Nevin]

On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Stefan li Rous wrote:

> Lady Carllein commented:
> > 
> > A record of the causes of accidental death in one medieval village in
> > England showed a lot of infants dying in fires caused by chickens dropping
> > or kicking straw into the central hearth while the parents were out in the
> > fields.  (And no, I cannot remember the name of the book that was a study
> > of causes of premature death, from which this comes.  It is a consistent
> > problem with my memory that I remember tidbits, not sources.)  This
> > suggested waste in the hovel, if not in the manor house.
> 
> I think I remember the comment. And I've got the book around here, somewhere.
> The problem is locating it. The book was wonderful and by using various odd
> records such as court records filled in many questions on childhood and later
> stages in medieval life, especially the life of peasants. I remember it's
> comments disproving the ideas of extended families. Most of the info was
> drawn from records in England in a single century or two.

Stefan,
	Betcha nickel that it was written by either Barbara Hanawalt of
Shulamith Shahar. Both of them have written books on childhood and growing
up in the Middle Ages. I'd give full biblio. but my copies are both out on
loan. But the author's names should help.

'Lainie
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Laura C. Minnick
University of Oregon
Department of English
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"Libraries have been the death of many great men, particularly the
Bodleian."
	Humfrey Wanley, c. 1731




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