medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: Ms B M Cook <[log in to unmask]>
> I have also attended Compline in a Cistercian Abbey
Trappist, i assume.
>Going to bed is a way of keeping warm and saving fuel.
true enough.
>I am thinking peasant family here where everyone lives, sleeps, eats &c in
the same room with an animal or two over the far side behind a low partition.
the only source of heat in the "house."
the "peasant" life "style" --i.e., the way 97+% of the population lived--
differed quite a bit from that of the gentry or (in the later m.a.) the
bourgeoisie (both rich and poor).
c
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