Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Eleventh Century
- Twelfth Century
- Thirteenth Century
- Fourteenth Century
- Fifteenth Century
- II.36 Duke Humfrey Sets Up Home: the King’s Grant of Furniture to His Son
- II.37 The Pennal Letter from Owain Glyndŵr, Prince of Wales, to the King of France
- II.38 Sermon Writing
- II.39 An Heir Proves He Can Inherit: Oral Testimony of Witnesses in Proof of Age Texts
- II.40 A Woman Is Tried for Heresy at Norwich: a Court Record
- II.41 Military Historiography
- II.42 A Miracle Associated with King Henry VI: a Painful Football Injury Is Healed
- II.43 The Black Death and Its Effects
- II.44 Forest Documents
- II.45 Manorial and Agricultural Documents
- II.46 Town Life and Trade: Administrative Documents
- II.47 Buildings: Construction and Reparation
- II.48 Royal and Ecclesiastical Accounts
- II.49 In the Courts
- II.50 Safeguarding, Accidents and Death
- Select Bibliography for Volume II
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
II.50 - Safeguarding, Accidents and Death
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Eleventh Century
- Twelfth Century
- Thirteenth Century
- Fourteenth Century
- Fifteenth Century
- II.36 Duke Humfrey Sets Up Home: the King’s Grant of Furniture to His Son
- II.37 The Pennal Letter from Owain Glyndŵr, Prince of Wales, to the King of France
- II.38 Sermon Writing
- II.39 An Heir Proves He Can Inherit: Oral Testimony of Witnesses in Proof of Age Texts
- II.40 A Woman Is Tried for Heresy at Norwich: a Court Record
- II.41 Military Historiography
- II.42 A Miracle Associated with King Henry VI: a Painful Football Injury Is Healed
- II.43 The Black Death and Its Effects
- II.44 Forest Documents
- II.45 Manorial and Agricultural Documents
- II.46 Town Life and Trade: Administrative Documents
- II.47 Buildings: Construction and Reparation
- II.48 Royal and Ecclesiastical Accounts
- II.49 In the Courts
- II.50 Safeguarding, Accidents and Death
- Select Bibliography for Volume II
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
Summary
The theme of safe-guarding, accidents and death is demonstrated by reference to the bishops’ advice regarding the protection of babies, and the necessary measures to be taken in case of illness and death, including emergency baptism and Caesarean section. Accidents often occurred, especially to children, and this might lead, in more fortunate cases, to healing and even revival by means of a miracle. Miracle accounts are balanced by coroners’ accounts which record the details of death, often by misadventure, as in the case here of a young woman scalded to death by falling into a brewer’s vat.
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- The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin , pp. 491 - 504Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024