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Life in a Medieval City

Author : Frances Gies
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062016679
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Life in a Medieval City written by Frances Gies and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 People

Author : Eileen Edna Power
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1406812196
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Medieval People written by Eileen Edna Power and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six studies showing aspects of social life in the Middle Ages and various classes of historical material.

Uppity Women of Medieval Times

Author : Vicki León
Publisher : Conari Press
ISBN 13 : 9781573240390
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Uppity Women of Medieval Times written by Vicki León and published by Conari Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England

Author : Liza Picard
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324002301
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England written by Liza Picard and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Medieval People

Author : Sarah Howarth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781562941536
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book Medieval People written by Sarah Howarth and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Famous People of the Middle Ages

Author : Donna Trembinski
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780778713562
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Famous People of the Middle Ages written by Donna Trembinski and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Medieval People

Author : Eileen Power
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Medieval People written by Eileen Power and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1924 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Key Figures in Medieval Europe

Author : Richard Kenneth Emmerson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0415973856
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Key Figures in Medieval Europe written by Richard Kenneth Emmerson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From emperors and queens to artists and world travelers, from popes and scholars to saints and heretics, Key Figures in Medieval Europe brings together in one volume the most important people who lived in medieval Europe between 500 and 1500. Gathered from the biographical entries from the on-going series, the Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, these a-z biographical entries discuss the lives of over 600 individuals who have had a historical impact in such areas as politics, religion, or the arts. Individuals from places such as medieval England, France, Germany, Iberia, Italy, and Scandinavia are included as well as those from the Jewish and Islamic worlds. A thematic outline is included that lists people not only by categories, but also by regions. Entries fall under the following categories: * Artists/Architects * Authors * Commercial Figures * Musicians * Political Figures * Religious Figures * Scientific Figures * Travelers * Women In one convenient volume, students, scholars, and interested readers will find the biographies of the people whose actions, beliefs, creations, and writings shaped the Middle Ages, one of the most fascinating periods of world history.

Medieval People

Author : Eileen Power
Publisher : Jovian Press
ISBN 13 : 153780426X
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (378 download)

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Download or read book Medieval People written by Eileen Power and published by Jovian Press. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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...

Medieval People

Author : Eileen Edna Power
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 035909340X
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Medieval People written by Eileen Edna Power and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-09-16 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Medieval Pets

Author : Kathleen Walker-Meikle
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 1843837587
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Pets written by Kathleen Walker-Meikle and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging and informative survey of medieval pet keeping which also examines their representation in art and literature.

Death in Medieval Europe

Author : Joelle Rollo-Koster
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315466848
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Death in Medieval Europe written by Joelle Rollo-Koster and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Bright Ages

Author : Matthew Gabriele
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062980912
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book The Bright Ages written by Matthew Gabriele and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audiences for years to come….The Bright Ages is a rare thing—a nuanced historical work that almost anyone can enjoy reading.”—Slate "Incandescent and ultimately intoxicating." —The Boston Globe A lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common misperceptions of the European Middle Ages, showing the beauty and communion that flourished alongside the dark brutality—a brilliant reflection of humanity itself. The word “medieval” conjures images of the “Dark Ages”—centuries of ignorance, superstition, stasis, savagery, and poor hygiene. But the myth of darkness obscures the truth; this was a remarkable period in human history. The Bright Ages recasts the European Middle Ages for what it was, capturing this 1,000-year era in all its complexity and fundamental humanity, bringing to light both its beauty and its horrors. The Bright Ages takes us through ten centuries and crisscrosses Europe and the Mediterranean, Asia and Africa, revisiting familiar people and events with new light cast upon them. We look with fresh eyes on the Fall of Rome, Charlemagne, the Vikings, the Crusades, and the Black Death, but also to the multi-religious experience of Iberia, the rise of Byzantium, and the genius of Hildegard and the power of queens. We begin under a blanket of golden stars constructed by an empress with Germanic, Roman, Spanish, Byzantine, and Christian bloodlines and end nearly 1,000 years later with the poet Dante—inspired by that same twinkling celestial canopy—writing an epic saga of heaven and hell that endures as a masterpiece of literature today. The Bright Ages reminds us just how permeable our manmade borders have always been and of what possible worlds the past has always made available to us. The Middle Ages may have been a world “lit only by fire” but it was one whose torches illuminated the magnificent rose windows of cathedrals, even as they stoked the pyres of accused heretics. The Bright Ages contains an 8-page color insert.

Medieval People

Author : Eileen Power
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Medieval People written by Eileen Power and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Everyday Life in Medieval Times

Author : Marjorie Rowling
Publisher : Dorset Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Everyday Life in Medieval Times written by Marjorie Rowling and published by Dorset Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life and work of the people who lived and worked between the reign of Charlemagne and the coming of the Renaissance.

Medieval People: Vivid Lives in a Distant Landscape

Author : Michael Prestwich
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500772312
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Medieval People: Vivid Lives in a Distant Landscape written by Michael Prestwich and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich and revelatory exploration of the medieval world, conveyed through intimate biographies by a renowned historian This engrossing, exquisitely illustrated, often witty account tells the life stories of some seventy individuals who "made" the Middle Ages. There are kings and queens, popes and politicians, soldiers and merchants, scholars, authors and visionaries. They range from the important, such as El Cid or Frederick Barbarossa, to the little known, such as the dissolute Venetian nun Clara Sanuto. Some were astonishingly successful: the empire created by Chinggis Khan was one of the most extensive ever seen. Some, such as Charles the Bold, the over-ambitious 15th–century duke of Burgundy, were failures. Contrary to modern myth, medieval people did not believe the earth was flat; torture was far less common than in later centuries; and technological advances included guns, printing, blast furnaces, spectacles, stirrups and the compass. Full of insights such as these, this book shows how medieval people lived in an era that was more one of invention and innovation than of superstition and backwardness. It will appeal to all those who want a truer picture of a world often erroneously portrayed by bestselling novelists of today.

Food in Medieval Times

Author : Melitta Weiss Adamson
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 : 9780313361760
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Food in Medieval Times written by Melitta Weiss Adamson and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New light is shed on everyday life in the middle ages in Great Britain and continental Europe through this unique survey of its food culture. Students and other readers will learn about the common foodstuffs available, how and what they cooked, ate, and drank, what the regional cuisines were like, how the different classes entertained and celebrated, and what restrictions they followed for health and faith reasons. Fascinating information is provided, such as on imitation food, kitchen humor, and medical ideas. Many period recipes and quotations flesh out the narrative.