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Author: Paul B. Newman
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786450525
Size: 15.87 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301
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Book Description: 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.

Author: George Gordon Coulton
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Size: 18.61 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
View: 5728

Book Description: This collection contains several hundred vivid literary pieces from the High and Later Middle Ages.

Author: Jean Jules Jusserand
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 26.67 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 451
View: 2136

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Author: P. L. Jacob
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 10.69 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 504
View: 3128

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Author: Linda Elizabeth Mitchell
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780313336300
Size: 53.65 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 240
View: 3778

Book Description: Presents a history of the family during the Middle Ages, covering the transition from Roman times, the impact of religion, the physical environment, and the family in the West, in the Byzantine Empire, in the Islamic World, and in the Jewish culture of the times.

Author: Israel Abrahams
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
ISBN: 0827605420
Size: 71.64 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Book Description: This classic work of scholarship illustrates the richness, complexity, and fullness of medieval Jewish life. Readers will discover how much was hidden from the inquisitive and often hostile gaze of Christian Europe. Israel Abrahams vividly details the customs, manners, and mores, and delves into the social culture of Jewish life at this time.

Author: Jeffrey L. Singman
Publisher: Sterling
ISBN: 9781454909057
Size: 69.50 MB
Format: PDF
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
View: 579

Book Description: An exploration of both private and public life in the Middle Ages covers material culture and the life cycle as well as daily experiences in villages, castles, monasteries, and towns.

Author: Richard Winston
Publisher: New Word City
ISBN: 1612309488
Size: 74.30 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 235
View: 6192

Book Description: Here, National Book Award winner Richard Winston explores life in the Middle Ages - from the fifth to the fifteenth centuries, beginning with the fall of the Roman Empire and ending with the dawn of the Renaissance. In both countryside and cities, from the peasants to the bourgeoisie to the nobility, no aspect of life in this era is left unexplored.

Author: R. H. Britnell
Publisher: Sutton Pub Limited
ISBN:
Size: 10.55 MB
Format: PDF
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
View: 7636

Book Description: What was life like in the towns and villages of medieval England? The full range of medieval life is covered, from the town life of medieval York and London to the life of peasants in the Durham and Warwickshire countryside. Drawing on newly discovered firsthand accounts, the book tells of leisure pursuits, religious practices, fashions, life at home and in the workshop or field, with sections on women in late medieval households, the peasant economy, the role of money in rent payments, and changing features of parish religion before the Reformation.

Author: Alan B. Cobban
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1857285174
Size: 48.61 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
View: 2229

Book Description: A rounded and comprehensive appraisal of life in the medieval universities of Oxford and Cambridge. He discusses all aspects of the medieval academic community including nobility, undergraduates, postgraduates, fellows, commoners, monks and servants.

Author: Clara Winston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 65.60 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 128
View: 223

Book Description: Discusses life in France in the Middle Ages.

Author: Lesley M. Smith
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781852850692
Size: 49.11 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
View: 6878

Book Description: The variety of experience available to medieval scholars and the vitality of medieval thought are both reflected in this collection of original essays by distinguished historians. Intellectual Life in the Middle Ages is presented to Margaret Gibson, whose own work has ranged from Boethius to Lanfranc and to the study of the Bible in the middle ages.