Medieval People

Author : Frances Gies,Joseph Gies
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062016676

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Life in a Medieval City by Frances Gies,Joseph Gies Pdf

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 : Sarah Howarth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1562941534

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Medieval People by Sarah Howarth Pdf

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 : Eileen Edna Power
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781406812190

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Medieval People by Eileen Edna Power Pdf

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

Author : Donna Trembinski
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0778713563

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Famous People of the Middle Ages by Donna Trembinski Pdf

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 : Melitta Weiss Adamson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313084829

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Food in Medieval Times by Melitta Weiss Adamson Pdf

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. The book draws on a variety of period sources, including as literature, account books, cookbooks, religious texts, archaeology, and art. Food was a status symbol then, and sumptuary laws defined what a person of a certain class could eat—the ingredients and preparation of a dish and how it was eaten depended on a person's status, and most information is available on the upper crust rather than the masses. Equalizing factors might have been religious strictures and such diseases as the bubonic plague, all of which are detailed here.

Author : Robert Bartlett
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art, Medieval
ISBN : 0892366427

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Medieval Panorama by Robert Bartlett Pdf

"This book also includes biographies of key personalities, from Charlemagne to Wycliffe, timelines, maps, glossary, gazetteer, and bibliography."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Eileen Edna Power
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : 9780359093403

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Medieval People by Eileen Edna Power Pdf

"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.

Author : Eileen Power
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : OSU:32435015233778

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Medieval People by Eileen Power Pdf

Author : Vicki León
Publisher : Red Wheel
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 1573240397

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Uppity Women of Medieval Times by Vicki León Pdf

Containing in-depth historical research and period artwork, a spirited book highlights the brash and eccentric women of the Renaissance, from Catalina de Erauso who dueled, drank, and cross-dressed to Chiyome who started a lucrative business renting out female ninjas known as "deadly flowers." Original. Tour. IP.

Author : Michael Prestwich
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780500772317

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Medieval People: Vivid Lives in a Distant Landscape by Michael Prestwich Pdf

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.

Author : Joelle Rollo-Koster
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315466842

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Death in Medieval Europe by Joelle Rollo-Koster Pdf

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 : Katherine L. French
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812201956

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The People of the Parish by Katherine L. French Pdf

The parish, the lowest level of hierarchy in the medieval church, was the shared responsibility of the laity and the clergy. Most Christians were baptized, went to confession, were married, and were buried in the parish church or churchyard; in addition, business, legal settlements, sociability, and entertainment brought people to the church, uniting secular and sacred concerns. In The People of the Parish, Katherine L. French contends that late medieval religion was participatory and flexible, promoting different kinds of spiritual and material involvement. The rich parish records of the small diocese of Bath and Wells include wills, court records, and detailed accounts by lay churchwardens of everyday parish activities. They reveal the differences between parishes within a single diocese that cannot be attributed to regional variation. By using these records show to the range and diversity of late medieval parish life, and a Christianity vibrant enough to accommodate differences in status, wealth, gender, and local priorities, French refines our understanding of lay attitudes toward Christianity in the two centuries before the Reformation.

Author : MICHAEL. PRESTWICH
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0500293856

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MEDIEVAL PEOPLE by MICHAEL. PRESTWICH Pdf

Author : Helen Solterer
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780271036137

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Medieval Roles for Modern Times by Helen Solterer Pdf

"Examines the performances of a Parisian youth group, Gustave Cohen's Théophiliens, and the process of making medieval culture a part of the modern world. Explores the work of actor Moussa Abadi, and his clandestine resistance under the Vichy regime in France during World War II"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Gwilym Dodd,Helen Lacey,Anthony Musson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000409185

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People, Power and Identity in the Late Middle Ages by Gwilym Dodd,Helen Lacey,Anthony Musson Pdf

This collection of ground-breaking essays celebrates Mark Ormrod’s wide-ranging influence over several generations of scholars. The seventeen chapters in this collection focus primarily on the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and are grouped thematically on governance and political resistance, culture, religion and identity.