[PDF] Medieval People eBook

Author : Frances Gies
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 36,54 MB
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0062016679

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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.

Author : Eileen Edna Power
Publisher :
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 18,32 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1406812196

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Six studies showing aspects of social life in the Middle Ages and various classes of historical material.

Author : Vicki León
Publisher : Conari Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 36,93 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781573240390

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This guide to the feisty women of medieval times profiles 200 of these fair and unfair damsels from around the world. There's English rose Hilda of Whitby, Viking leader Aud the Deep-Minded and Wu Zhao of China, who chose to concubine, connive, murder and machiavelli her way to a 50 year reign.

Author : Liza Picard
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,31 MB
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1324002301

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The Middle Ages re-created through the cast of pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales. Among the surviving records of fourteenth-century England, Geoffrey Chaucer’s poetry is the most vivid. Chaucer wrote about everyday people outside the walls of the English court—men and women who spent days at the pedal of a loom, or maintaining the ledgers of an estate, or on the high seas. In Chaucer’s People, Liza Picard transforms The Canterbury Tales into a masterful guide for a gloriously detailed tour of medieval England, from the mills and farms of a manor house to the lending houses and Inns of Court in London. In Chaucer’s People we meet again the motley crew of pilgrims on the road to Canterbury. Drawing on a range of historical records such as the Magna Carta, The Book of Margery Kempe, and Cookery in English, Picard puts Chaucer’s characters into historical context and mines them for insights into what people ate, wore, read, and thought in the Middle Ages. What can the Miller, “big…of brawn and eke of bones” tell us about farming in fourteenth-century England? What do we learn of medieval diets and cooking methods from the Cook? With boundless curiosity and wit, Picard re-creates the religious, political, and financial institutions and customs that gave order to these lives.

Author : Sarah Howarth
Publisher :
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 43,30 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781562941536

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Describes thirteen typical people of the Middle Ages including a knight, lady, monk, pilgrim, merchant, doctor, and bishop and discusses how they lived, worked, and fit into the general social structure of the medieval realm.

Author : Donna Trembinski
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 17,10 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780778713562

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Explore the lives of powerful kings and queens, rebellious peasants, fierce warriors, and pious religious leaders of the Middle Ages. Artwork from illuminated manuscripts helps bring to life fascinating portraits of such famous medieval men, women, and children as Ghengis Khan, Isabella I, Muhammad, Marco Polo, and Joan of Arc.

Author : Eileen Power
Publisher : Jovian Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 27,47 MB
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 153780426X

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Social history sometimes suffers from the reproach that it is vague and general, unable to compete with the attractions of political history either for the student or for the general reader, because of its lack of outstanding personalities. In point of fact there is often as much material for reconstructing the life of some quite ordinary person as there is for writing a history of Robert of Normandy or of Philippa of Hainault; and the lives of ordinary people so reconstructed are, if less spectacular, certainly not less interesting...

Author : Eileen Edna Power
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 19,92 MB
Release : 2018-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 035909340X

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Every schoolboy knows that the Middle Ages arose on the ruins of the Roman Empire. The decline of Rome preceded and in some ways prepared the rise of the kingdoms and cultures which composed the medieval system. Yet in spite of the self-evident truth of this historical preposition we know little about life and thought in the watershed years when Europe was ceasing to be Roman but was not yet

Author : Joelle Rollo-Koster
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 11,15 MB
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1315466848

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Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed explores new cultural research into death and funeral practices in medieval Europe and demonstrates the important relationship between death and the world of the living in the middle ages. This volume explores overarching topics such as burials, commemorations, revenants, mourning practices and funerals, capital punishment, suspiscious death and death registrations using case studies from across Europe including England, Iceland and Spain. Drawing together and building upon the latest scholarship, this book is essential reading for all students and academics of death in the medieval period.