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1288: A Moment in Norwich

2/25/2023

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Close up photograph of a medieval document
Often it is hard to get any sense of what life was like in the past. This week, Sam will take you into the Norwich Leet Roll of 1288. This local court record that listed fines for everyday transgressions provides unique insights to the lived experience in a medieval city. Join her to consider the social realities that it exposes.

Host: Samantha
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Further Reading

William Hudson, ed. Leet Jurisdiction in the City of Norwich during the 13th and 14th Centuries with a Short Notice of its Later History and Decline from the Rolls in the possession of the Corporation. Selden Society 5 (1892).

Brian Ayers, Norwich: Archaeology of a Fine City, Stroud, Amberley Publishing, (2009).

Isla Fay, Health and the City: Disease, Environment and Government in Norwich, 1200-1575, University of York Centre for Medieval Studies, (2015).

Ben McRee, “Peacemaking and its Limits in Late Medieval Norwich,” The English Historical Review 109 (1992): 831-866.

Carole Rawcliffe and Richard Wilson, eds. Medieval Norwich, Hambledon and London, (2004).

Samantha Sagui, “A Prosopography of the Capital Pledges of Medieval Norwich” Medieval Prosopography 31 (2016): 97-114.

Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin Macleod (www.incompetech.com)
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