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Everything you ever wanted to know about medieval daily life, but were afraid to ask

HistoryExtra podcast

HistoryExtra

History

4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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In the latest of our series tackling the big questions on major historical topics, historian Chris Dyer responds to listener queries and popular search enquiries about life in the Middle Ages, including bodily hygiene, sleep patterns, love and marriage, policing and retirement. Historyextra.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:04.0

I'm Matt Alton. We have another in our Everything You Want to Know series, in which we ask you to pose the questions to a leading expert in a particular topic. Today we're exploring medieval daily life in England, and our expert is Professor Chris Dyer. Chris is Emeritus Professor of History

1:13.1

at the University of Leicester and a leading expert in medieval economic and social history. His books

1:19.3

include everyday life in medieval England and making a living in the Middle Ages. Putting the

1:24.6

questions is our content director, David Rosgrove. Thank you very much for joining us.

1:29.5

How are you today? Fine, thanks. It's a pleasure to be here. So let's jump in with the first question,

1:35.4

which is from Frank Icaza, who asked what was a typical day for the average person. So a big question

1:43.3

to start with, and I don't know how easy that is to

1:45.5

answer. I suppose the first thing to say is that many of us live a very routine life in

1:52.7

modern times. You know, we're doing the same thing roughly every day. We go, when there isn't

1:58.6

a virus around, we go to work, we start at nine, we finish at five,

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