THE STORY: The action takes place in the trophy room of a rather stuffy men's club in a midwestern city. As the play begins we meet Barney, the son of the club president, as a teenager--and already a rebel against the WASP-ish virtues so dear to his
The site divides the famous tapestry into This online tutorial is for those engaged www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html thirty - five separately viewable parts and in Renaissance , Reformation , and early includes an account of how the ...
Johannes Fried gives us a Middle Ages full of people encountering the unfamiliar, grappling with new ideas, redefining power, and interacting with different societies—an era characterized by continuities and discontinuities, the vibrant ...
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.
The Middle Ages (c.500-1500) includes a thousand years of European history. In this Very Short Introduction Miri Rubin tells the story of the times through the people and their lifestyles.
First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The stories of Roger 'the Raker' who drowned in his own sewage, a 'merman' imprisoned in Orford Castle and the sufferings of the Jews of Bristol reveal the extraordinary diversity of medieval society.
This is an absorbing study of the main personalities and the influences that molded the history of Western Europe from the late tenth to the early thirteenth century.
The aim of this book has been to tell the story of the Middle Ages so as to bring out the most characteristic features of the period, and to emphasize those things in medieval life which have the most significance for us today.
In this authoritative, lively book, the celebrated Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco presents a learned summary of medieval aesthetic ideas.
The Bright Ages contains an 8-page color insert.