Everyday Life in Medieval England
- ISBN-10
- 0826419828
- ISBN-13
- 9780826419828
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-01-01
- Publisher
- A&C Black
- Author
- Christopher Dyer
Description
Everyday Life in Medieval England captures the day-to-day experience of people in the middle ages - the houses and settlements in which they lived, the food they ate, their getting and spending - and their social relationships. The picture that emerges is of great variety, of constant change, of movement and of enterprise. Many people were downtrodden and miserably poor, but they struggled against their circumstances, resisting oppressive authorities, to build their own way of life and to improve their material conditions. The ordinary men and women of the middle ages appear throughout. Everyday life in Medieval England is an outstanding contribution to both national and local history.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Life in a Medieval City
By Joseph Gies, Frances GiesMedieval history comes alive in Frances and Joseph Gies’s Life in a Medieval City, used as a research resource by George R. R. Martin in creating the world of A Game of Thrones.
-
Everyday Life in Medieval London: From the Anglo-Saxons to the Tudors
By Toni MountWright, P., The Strange History of Buckingham Palace: Patterns of People (Stroud, Glos.: Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1996). Part II 'Ancient London banana unpeeled', BBC News, 16 June 1999. Baker, T., Medieval London (London: Cassell ...
-
Daily Life in Chaucer's England
By Jeffrey L. Forgeng, Will Mclean, Jeffrey L. SingmanSigmund Eisner ( Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1980 ) ; William Maskell , Monumenta Ritualia Ecclesiae Anglicanae ( Oxford : at the Clarendon Press , 1882 ) . CHAPTER 5 : THE LIVING ENVIRONMENT 1. On villages , see Frances and ...
-
The Middle Ages: Everyday Life in Medieval Europe
By Jeffrey L. SingmanAn 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 Ties that Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England
By Barbara A. HanawaltBut many closes had private wells , as both archaeological and record evidence indicate . Three percent of all accidents occurred in the family's well , while 1 percent occurred in a neighbor's well . People without wells probably used ...
-
Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain 850–1520
By Christopher DyerThis is a book about ideas and attitudes as well as the material world, and Dyer shows how people regarded the economy and responded to economic change.
-
Everyday Life in Medieval Times
By Marjorie RowlingA view of everyday life in medieval Europe which provides a clear, historical picture of the lives of persons from a variety of social classes and trades.
-
Daily Life in the Middle Ages
By Paul B. NewmanInstructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
-
Daily Life in Medieval Europe
By Jeffrey L. Forgeng, Jeffrey L. SingmanAn exploration of both private and public life in the Middle Ages covers society, the life cycle, material culture, life in villages, castles, monasteries, and towns, and the medieval world, plus games, food, and music.
-
Life in a Medieval Village
By Joseph Gies, Frances GiesThis 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.