Page:A History of Domestic Manners and Sentiments in England During the Middle Ages.djvu/17

 CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGS IXTBODUCTOKY — THE AnGLO-SaXOXS BErORE THEIR CONVEESIOX — GENERAL ARRANGEMENT OF A SaXON HOUSE 1 CHAPTER n. In-door life among the Anglo-S.vxons — the hall and its hospitaxitt — the Saxon meal — provisions and cookery — after-dinner occu- pations — DRUNKEN BRAWLS IS CHAPTER HI. The chamber and its furniture — beds and bed-rooms — infancy and childhood among the Anglo-Saxons — character and manners of THE Anglo-Saxon ladies — their cruelty to their servants — THEIR amusements — THE GARDEN ; LOVE OF THE AnGLO-SaXONS FOR FLOWERS — Anglo-Saxon punishments — almsgiving .... CHAPTER IV. Out-of-door amusements of the Anglo-Saxons — hunting and hawk- ing HORSES AND CARRIAGES — TRAT;LLING — MONEY-DEALINGS 40 63 CHAPTER V. The early Normax period — luxuriousness of the Normans — advance in domestic architecture — the kitchen and the hall — provisions and cookery — bees — the dairy — meal-times and divisions of the day — furniture — the faldestol^chairs and other seats. . so