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Life in a Medieval City
Author | : Frances Gies,Joseph Gies |
Publsiher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2010-08-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780062016676 |
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From acclaimed historians Frances and Joseph Gies comes the reissue of their classic book on day-to-day life in medieval cities, which was a source for George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones series. Evoking every aspect of city life in the Middle Ages, Life in a Medieval City depicts in detail what it was like to live in a prosperous city of Northwest Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The year is 1250 CE and the city is Troyes, capital of the county of Champagne and site of two of the cycle Champagne Fairs—the “Hot Fair” in August and the “Cold Fair” in December. European civilization has emerged from the Dark Ages and is in the midst of a commercial revolution. Merchants and money men from all over Europe gather at Troyes to buy, sell, borrow, and lend, creating a bustling market center typical of the feudal era. As the Gieses take us through the day-to-day life of burghers, we learn the customs and habits of lords and serfs, how financial transactions were conducted, how medieval cities were governed, and what life was really like for a wide range of people. For serious students of the medieval era and anyone wishing to learn more about this fascinating period, Life in a Medieval City remains a timeless work of popular medieval scholarship.
Medieval Life
Author | : Andrew Langley |
Publsiher | : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Civilization, Medieval |
ISBN | : 0756607043 |
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An illustrated look at various aspects of life in medieval Europe, covering everyday life, religion, royalty, and more.
Terry Jones Medieval Lives
Author | : Alan Ereira,Terry Jones |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2009-05-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781409070450 |
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Was medieval England full of knights on horseback rescuing fainting damsels in distress? Were the Middle Ages mired in superstition and ignorance? Why does nobody ever mention King Louis the First and Last? And, of course, those key questions: which monks were forbidden the delights of donning underpants... and did outlaws never wear trousers? Terry Jones and Alan Ereira are your guides to this most misrepresented and misunderstood period, and they point you to things that will surprise and provoke. Did you know, for example, that medieval people didn't think the world was flat? That was a total fabrication by an American journalist in the 19th century. Did you know that they didn't burn witches in the Middle Ages? That was a refinement of the so-called Renaissance. In fact, medieval kings weren't necessarily merciless tyrants, and peasants entertained at home using French pottery and fine wine. Terry Jones' Medieval Lives reveals Medieval Britain as you have never seen it before - a vibrant society teeming with individuality, intrigue and innovation.
Daily Life in the Middle Ages
Author | : Paul B. Newman |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2018-01-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780786450527 |
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Although life in the Middle Ages was not as comfortable and safe as it is for most people in industrialized countries today, the term "Dark Ages" is highly misleading. The era was not so primitive and crude as depictions in film and literature would suggest. Even during the worst years of the centuries immediately following the fall of Rome, the legacy of that civilization survived. This book covers diet, cooking, housing, building, clothing, hygiene, games and other pastimes, fighting and healing in medieval times. The reader will find numerous misperceptions corrected. The book also includes a comprehensive bibliography and a listing of collections of medieval art and artifacts and related sites across the United States and Canada so that readers in North America can see for themselves some of the matters discussed in the book. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Medieval Life
Author | : Andrew Langley,Geoff Dann |
Publsiher | : Kids Play |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0789460386 |
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Discover medieval Europe from life on a country manor to the crowded streets of a developing town.
Bridges Daily Life in Medieval Times
Author | : Barbara Brooks Simons |
Publsiher | : Benchmark Education Company |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Middle Ages |
ISBN | : 9781616721701 |
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A Medieval Life
Author | : Judith M. Bennett |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2020-11-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780812224696 |
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A Medieval Life offers a biography of one woman, a portrait of her world, and an introduction to historical method. A Medieval Life offers a biography of one woman, a portrait of her world, and an introduction to historical method. Written in a clear and accessible style, it reworks a well-loved book to provide an entirely new resource for students, teachers, and general readers. Like Cecilia Penifader, most people in the Middle Ages were peasants, humble people living socially below the knights, bishops, and kings who figure so large in history books. Judith M. Bennett shows that peasants, too, made history. She explores how peasant lives were closely entangled with the lives and interests of those more privileged, looking at manors as well as villages; parishes, faith, and ritual practices; royal taxes and justice; economy and trade; famine and disease. By moving out from Cecilia's perspective, the book explores the ties and tensions that bound all medieval people—poor as well as rich—into a medieval society. The book also provides a primer on the fact-finding and interpretative debates that are at the heart of the historian's craft. Each chapter includes a new section on how medievalists today are studying such topics as puberty, morals, courtship, and climate change. The illustrations, taken from the famous Luttrell Psalter, provide a coherent, rich, and interpretatively complex visual program. And the final chapter explores some of the different ways in which historians, for better and for worse, have understood medieval society.
Ways of Medieval Life and Thought
Author | : Frederick Maurice Powicke |
Publsiher | : Biblo & Tannen Publishers |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1951 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0819601373 |
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