Other rooms each had a fireplace. Often the hall was on the
second floor and took up two stories. There was a fireplace on one
wall of the bottom story. There were small windows around the top
story and on the inside of the courtyard. Windows of large houses
were of opaque glass supplied by a glass-making craft. The glass
was thick, uneven, distorted, and greenish in color. The walls
were plastered. The floor was wood with some carpets. Roofs were
timbered with horizontal beams. Many roofs had tiles supplied by
the tile craft, which baked the tiles in kilns or over an open
fire. Because of the hazard of fire, the kitchen was often a
separate building, with a covered way connecting it to the hall.
It had one or two open fires in fireplaces, and ovens. Sometimes
there was a separate room for a dairy.
Furniture included heavy wood armchairs for the lord and lady,
stools, benches, trestle tables, chests, and cupboards. Outside
was an enclosed garden with cabbages, peas, beans, beetroots,
onions, garlic, leeks, lettuce, watercress, hops, herbs, nut trees
for oil, some flowers, and a fish pond and well. Bees were kept
for their honey.
Nobles, doctors, and attorneys wore tunics to the ankle and an
over-tunic almost as long, which was lined with fur and had long
sleeves. A hood was attached to it. A man's hair was short and
curled, with bangs on the forehead. The tunic of merchants and
middle class men reached to the calf.
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