SC - Re: Babies and diapers

[Stefan li Rous]

Brangwayna Morgan replied to my message:

> stefan at texas.net writes:
> << 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. >>
> 
> I know Barbara Hanawalt's book The Ties That Bound has a lot of this sort of
> information in it.  She works off of the coroner's rolls (in England during
> most of the Middle Ages, any accidental death had to be investigated to
> determine the circumstances, and there were coroners appointed for each
> shire
> who had the responsibility to do this).  In some cases the information is
> surprisingly complete - who found the body first, any information that might
> help determine the cause, eyewitness reports, etc.  It's quite fascinating.
<snip>

Thank you, Brangqyna. This is the book I had in mind and you gave a much
better review than I could. I have taken the liberty of forwarding this
to the SCA=Arts list.
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Lord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mark S. Harris             Austin, Texas           stefan at texas.net
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