Life in a Medieval Village

Life in a Medieval Village
Title Life in a Medieval Village PDF eBook
Author Frances Gies
Publisher Harper Collins
Pages 242
Release 2010-09-07
Genre History
ISBN 0062016687

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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.

The Medieval Village

The Medieval Village
Title The Medieval Village PDF eBook
Author George Gordon Coulton
Publisher
Pages 641
Release 1925
Genre Civilization, Medieval
ISBN

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Make This Medieval Village

Make This Medieval Village
Title Make This Medieval Village PDF eBook
Author Iain Ashman
Publisher Usborne Books
Pages 0
Release 2009
Genre Cities and towns, Medieval
ISBN 9781409501053

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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.

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!
Title Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! PDF eBook
Author Laura Amy Schlitz
Publisher Candlewick Press
Pages 98
Release 2007-07-24
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 0763615781

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A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor.

Life in a Medieval City

Life in a Medieval City
Title Life in a Medieval City PDF eBook
Author Frances Gies
Publisher Harper Collins
Pages 404
Release 2010-08-03
Genre History
ISBN 0062016679

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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.

The Church in the Medieval Town

The Church in the Medieval Town
Title The Church in the Medieval Town PDF eBook
Author T. R. Slater
Publisher Routledge
Pages 332
Release 1998
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Status and Class in the Medieval Town -- 2 Conflict and Political Community in the Medieval Town: Disputes between Clergy and Laity in Hereford -- 3 The Church and the Jews in English Medieval Towns -- 4 Trade, Towns and the Church: Ecclesiastical Consumers and the Urban Economy of the West Midlands, 1290-1540 -- 5 The Origin and Early Development of the London Mendicant Houses

The Luttrell Village

The Luttrell Village
Title The Luttrell Village PDF eBook
Author Sheila Sancha
Publisher
Pages 72
Release 1982
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN

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Traces a year in the Lincolnshire village of Gerneham, from ploughing through sowing, harvesting, and threshing, with illustrations of village life inspired by the fourteenth-century Luttrell Psalter.