Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-96).
Summary:
From bizarrely fatal accidents to grisly murders, this book takes a magnifying glass to twelve deaths plucked from medieval coroners' rolls. Here are the everyday people of the middle ages -- not kings and queens, but rarely seen teenage clerks and drunken wives, short-lived students on crime sprees and men with peculiarly fatal preferences for pissing. The hows, whys, and wherefores of their demises let them live once more, certain to change our conception of Medieval England.
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