Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Charlie Kirschner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. Medieval People by EILEEN POWER M.A., D.Lit. _Late Reader in History in the University of London and sometime Fellow and Lecturer of Girton College, Cambridge_ ‘I counsel thee, shut not thy heart nor thy library’ CHARLES LAMB _First published, 1924 Published in 1963