The Village & House in the Middle Ages
Author : Jean Chapelot
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 14,96 MB
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520046696
Make This Medieval Village
Author : Iain Ashman
Publisher : Usborne Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,52 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Cities and towns, Medieval
ISBN : 9781409501053
Book Description
Each page contains pieces which children can cut-out and glue to create a medieval village complete with an inn, medieval houses and a village fair, as well as the inhabitants including the Lord of the Manor, innkeeper and pedlars.
Rural Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age
Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 39,39 MB
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110285428
Book Description
Older research on the premodern world limited its focus on the Church, the court, and, more recently, on urban space. The present volume invites readers to consider the meaning of rural space, both in light of ecocritical readings and social-historical approaches. While previous scholars examined the figure of the peasant in the premodern world, the current volume combines a large number of specialized studies that investigate how the natural environment and the appearance of members of the rural population interacted with the world of the court and of the city. The experience in rural space was important already for writers and artists in the premodern era, as the large variety of scholarly approaches indicates. The present volume signals how much the surprisingly close interaction between members of the aristocratic and of the peasant class determined many literary and art-historical works. In a surprisingly large number of cases we can even discover elements of utopia hidden in rural space. We also observe how much the rural world was a significant element already in early-medieval mentality. Moreover, as many authors point out, the impact of natural forces on premodern society was tremendous, if not catastrophic.
Daily Life in the World of Charlemagne
Author : Pierre Riché
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 32,31 MB
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812210965
Book Description
Detailed account of the common people's daily life in the time of Charlemagne and how politics and military struggle affected them.
A Companion to Britain in the Later Middle Ages
Author : S. H. Rigby
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 14,10 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0470998776
Book Description
This authoritative survey of Britain in the later Middle Ages comprises 28 chapters written by leading figures in the field. Covers social, economic, political, religious, and cultural history in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales Provides a guide to the historical debates over the later Middle Ages Addresses questions at the leading edge of historical scholarship Each chapter includes suggestions for further reading
The High Middle Ages
Author : Trevor Rowley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 30,74 MB
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0429602189
Book Description
Originally published in 1986, The High Middle Ages begins in the late twelfth century and ends, not with the arrival of the Tudor monarchs in 1485, but with the destruction of the wealth and power of the Church in the 1530s. The book looks at how the passing of the monasteries marked the transition from an economic and social system based on a balance – however shifting and uneasy – between the church and state, to a supreme reign of the church. The book discusses how the later middle ages were a period not of decay but of rapid change. It examines how social and economic convulsion emerged in a society marked by restless energy and creativity. The three centuries covered in the book mark a key period of extensive change to the landscape and environment of England between 1200 to 1550.
A Cultural History of Women in the Middle Ages
Author : Kim M. Phillips
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 42,9 MB
Release : 2015-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1350995428
Book Description
The medieval era has been described as 'the Age of Chivalry' and 'the Age of Faith' but also as 'the Dark Ages'. Medieval women have often been viewed as subject to a punishing misogyny which limited their legal rights and economic activities, but some scholars have claimed they enjoyed a 'rough and ready equality' with men. The contrasting figures of Eve and the Virgin Mary loom over historians' interpretations of the period 1000-1500. Yet a wealth of recent historiography goes behind these conventional motifs, showing how medieval women's lives were shaped by status, age, life-stage, geography and religion as well as by gender. A Cultural History of Women in the Middle Ages presents essays on medieval women's life cycle, bodies and sexuality, religion and popular beliefs, medicine and disease, public and private realms, education and work, power, and artistic representation to illustrate the diversity of medieval women's lives and constructions of femininity.
Life in a Medieval Village
Author : Frances Gies
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 12,90 MB
Release : 2010-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0062016687
Book Description
The reissue of Joseph and Frances Gies’s classic bestseller on life in medieval villages. This new reissue of Life in a Medieval Village, by respected historians Joseph and Frances Gies, paints a lively, convincing portrait of rural people at work and at play in the Middle Ages. Focusing on the village of Elton, in the English East Midlands, the Gieses detail the agricultural advances that made communal living possible, explain what domestic life was like for serf and lord alike, and describe the central role of the church in maintaining social harmony. Though the main focus is on Elton, c. 1300, the Gieses supply enlightening historical context on the origin, development, and decline of the European village, itself an invention of the Middle Ages. Meticulously researched, Life in a Medieval Village is a remarkable account that illustrates the captivating world of the Middle Ages and demonstrates what it was like to live during a fascinating—and often misunderstood—era.
Life on a Medieval Manor
Author : Marc Cels
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,28 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780778713531
Book Description
Describes the way of life on a medieval manor.
Life in a Medieval City
Author : Frances Gies
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 24,87 MB
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0062016679
Book Description
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.
