Studies the homes, daily life and work of people, drawn from all classes and occupations, during the Middle Ages

Everyday Life in Medieval Times

Rowling, Marjorie

History

Putnam Pub. Group

Everyday Life of Medieval Travellers

Travel

Europe

Batsford

<p>An age of chivalry, color, and faith from which the modern world still draws inspiration—or centuries of violence, squalor, and superstition best forgotten? Marjorie Rowling refreshingly avoids any such extreme judgments so often passed on the Middle Ages. Instead, she looks closely at some of the people who lived and worked in that fascinating era of European history.</p>

Life in Medieval Times (Perigee)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

TarcherPerigee

Describes the travellers of medieval Europe on their way to war, the crusades, another manor, and to sell or to buy merchandise.

Everyday life of medieval travellers ([Everyday life series])

Americas

G.P.Putnam's Sons

The folklore of the Lake District (The Folklore of the British Isles)

Rowman and Littlefield

<p>About 200 pages packed with information on the the Middle Ages everyday life, written in lively prose and illustrated mostly with line drawings from the times, plus a few photographs. Excerpt: "An amusement gallery was sometimes run in conjunction with a medieval zoo...In these galleries visitors...were soaked to the skin on pulling the handle of one of the machines, then found themselves precipitated through a trap-door into a sack filled with feathers or even soot, when they tried to run away." The chapters are arranged first by means (Road, Bridges and Hospitality, Sea-Routes, Ports and Ships) and then by travelers themselves, explorers, merchants, royalty, soldiers and the notorious Free Companies. Excerpt: "It was inevitable that these companies should be formed during a period when there were no regular paid standing armies...It is difficult to find anywhere in the records a favorable comment on the Free Companies in the Middle Ages...Roads were rendered dangerous by them to travelers, fairs could not be held, craftsmen and traders could not pursue their livelihood, nor peasants cultivate their fields, monks had to flee from monasteries..." The craziness of intellectuals is ancient. Many wandering scholars called goliards seemed mad: "These wandering clerks are wont to roam about the world and visit all its cities till much learning makes them mad; for in Paris they seek the liberal arts, in Orleans classics, at Salerno medicine, at Toledo magic, but nowhere manners or morals." Dancers and magicians' assistants in flashy costumes baring cleavage is ancient (in the bible, see reference to the Dance of the Seven Veils). Risque and flashy lady entertainers were common: "...There were of course many women entertainers among the lower ranks of jongleurs. These were mainly dancers who performed sword dances and acrobatics, balancing on the points of swords and aiding jugglers."</p>

Dorset Pr

Life in Medieval Times

Perigee book

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