• Part 1 Charity: perceptions of monastic almsgiving; monastic almsgiving from ordinary income; monastic almsgiving from special funds. Part 2 Diet: the problems; the sample; Benedictine diet - regular and irregular; arrangements at Westminster Abbey. Part 3 Sickness and its treatment: the empirical approach; the monastic community at Westminster Abbey; the treatment of sickness at the abbey; morbidity in the monastic community at Westminster Abbey; the diseases. Part 4 Mortality: the problems; mortality at Christ Church, Canterbury 1395-1505; mortality at Westminster Abbey 1390-1529; the fatal diseases; the population trend in late Medieval England. Part 5 Servants: perspectives; monastic households; servant life; earnings at Westminster Abbey. Part 6 Corrodies: perceptions old and new; the main kinds of corrody; grants in general; grants in exchange for real property; grants in exchange for money; the age and marital status of corrodians. Appendices: charitable giving at Westminster Abbey c.1510-c.1530; catering in the Refectory and Misericord at Westminster Abbey c.1495-c.1525 - numbers and messes; apothecaries, physicians and surgeons employed by the Abbot and Convent of Westminster c.1300-c.1540; estimating the life-expectancy of the monks of Westminster, Jim Oeppen; corrodians of Westminster Abbey 1100-1540.

a work of outstanding importance, a substantial contribution to our knowledge of medieval social history...full of interest and very easy to read...a classic of brilliant historical research and writing

• Part 1 Charity: perceptions of monastic almsgiving; monastic almsgiving from ordinary income; monastic almsgiving from special funds. Part 2 Diet: the problems; the sample; Benedictine diet - regular and irregular; arrangements at Westminster Abbey. Part 3 Sickness and its treatment: the empirical approach; the monastic community at Westminster Abbey; the treatment of sickness at the abbey; morbidity in the monastic community at Westminster Abbey; the diseases. Part 4 Mortality: the problems; mortality at Christ Church, Canterbury 1395-1505; mortality at Westminster Abbey 1390-1529; the fatal diseases; the population trend in late Medieval England. Part 5 Servants: perspectives; monastic households; servant life; earnings at Westminster Abbey. Part 6 Corrodies: perceptions old and new; the main kinds of corrody; grants in general; grants in exchange for real property; grants in exchange for money; the age and marital status of corrodians. Appendices: charitable giving at Westminster Abbey c.1510-c.1530; catering in the Refectory and Misericord at Westminster Abbey c.1495-c.1525 - numbers and messes; apothecaries, physicians and surgeons employed by the Abbot and Convent of Westminster c.1300-c.1540; estimating the life-expectancy of the monks of Westminster, Jim Oeppen; corrodians of Westminster Abbey 1100-1540.

a work of outstanding importance, a substantial contribution to our knowledge of medieval social history...full of interest and very easy to read...a classic of brilliant historical research and writing

• Part 1 Charity: perceptions of monastic almsgiving; monastic almsgiving from ordinary income; monastic almsgiving from special funds. Part 2 Diet: the problems; the sample; Benedictine diet - regular and irregular; arrangements at Westminster Abbey. Part 3 Sickness and its treatment: the empirical approach; the monastic community at Westminster Abbey; the treatment of sickness at the abbey; morbidity in the monastic community at Westminster Abbey; the diseases. Part 4 Mortality: the problems; mortality at Christ Church, Canterbury 1395-1505; mortality at Westminster Abbey 1390-1529; the fatal diseases; the population trend in late Medieval England. Part 5 Servants: perspectives; monastic households; servant life; earnings at Westminster Abbey. Part 6 Corrodies: perceptions old and new; the main kinds of corrody; grants in general; grants in exchange for real property; grants in exchange for money; the age and marital status of corrodians. Appendices: charitable giving at Westminster Abbey c.1510-c.1530; catering in the Refectory and Misericord at Westminster Abbey c.1495-c.1525 - numbers and messes; apothecaries, physicians and surgeons employed by the Abbot and Convent of Westminster c.1300-c.1540; estimating the life-expectancy of the monks of Westminster, Jim Oeppen; corrodians of Westminster Abbey 1100-1540.

a work of outstanding importance, a substantial contribution to our knowledge of medieval social history...full of interest and very easy to read...a classic of brilliant historical research and writing