Reconstructing how ordinary people lived through documents
Reconstructing how ordinary people lived through documents
The following packet consists of eleven short excerpts from medieval English documents, illustrating how ordinary people lived. It is a historian’s job to read these pieces of everyday life, and figure out from them what life was like.
Read all the short excerpts (which are in three groups), and answer the questions after each group.
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