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Author: Sarah Howarth Publisher: ISBN: 9781562941536 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 54
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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: Frances Gies Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0062016679 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 304
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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: Vicki León Publisher: Conari Press ISBN: 9781573240390 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 268
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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: Joelle Rollo-Koster Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1315466848 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 257
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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. Across ten chapters, the articles in this volume survey the cultural effects of death. 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. Together these chapters discuss how death was ritualised and choreographed, but also how it was expressed in writing throughout various documentary sources including wills and death registries. In each instance, records are analysed through a cultural framework to better understand the importance of the authors of death and their audience. Drawing together and building upon the latest scholarship, this book is essential reading for all students and academics of death in the medieval period.
Author: Matthew Gabriele Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0062980912 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 336
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"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.
Author: Sarah Howarth Publisher: ISBN: 9781562941536 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 54
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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 ISBN: 9780778713562 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 36
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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 Edna Power Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 035909340X Category : Civilization, Medieval Languages : en Pages : 122
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"An account of six persons during the Middle Ages: a Frankish peasant; Marco Polo, the Venetian traveler; Madame Eglentyne, prioress of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; a middle-class Parisian housewife; two English merchants, one engaged in the wool trade and the other an Essex clothier ... A hitherto unpublished essay ... has been added ... [which] describes the barbarian conquest of Rome"--Page 4 of cover.
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