Life On A Mediaeval Barony Author:William Stearns Davis The picture here given of a typical feudal community of the thirteenth century is extraordinary in more than one particular. Professor Davis of the department of history at the University of Minnesota has gone to original sources for his material, and much information not available heretofore in English is spread before the reader in delightfull... more »y readable style. The drawings, of which there are scores, are also largely from old manuscripts, and portray almost every phase of the life of the time. The book does not stop with the conventional study of chivalry and the upper classes, but is devoted rather to that larger proportion of the population composed of serfs, villeins, merchants, and craftsmen, giving a remarkable picture of their daily life.« less