Experience Daily Life In Medieval Times Authored By Frances Gies Provided As Text

not quite what I needed, but that's not the Daily Life in Medieval Times's fault,
Covers just about everything, Clear, concise, and yet as complete as they can be in a book that doesn't go on for a thousand pages, Gies and Gies give you an overview of Medieval life that complements their other two books that I have read Life in a Medieval City and Medieval Marriage beautifully.
I love simple overviews of complex subjects, Medieval history is convoluted with debate when did it actually start Which characters are purely fictional and which are rooted in reality Was the Catholic church totally evil, or did it do necessary good.
However, books like this breaks it down to the basic facts: festivals, dress, customs, aka: daily life, Is a great refresher, and would be a fun read before a trip to Europe, Book four of my writing research,

This is such a good instructional guide to life in the medieval times, Each page is packed with information and imagery that is displayed in such a way as to draw the eye and keep the reader entertained, Also, the tone wasn't as dusty and dry, as I had expected, which heightened my reading enjoyment, A broad spectrum of topics are covered, and much

detail is given on every one of them, "Daily Live in Medieval Times" is a wonderful history book on the numerous facets of medieval life, It is full of glorious pictures and art work, From birth to grave, this well researched text combines the thoroughness and depth of a school text with the delight and inspiration of a novel without being one, This is one of the best books on medieval history I have come across, Only downside is the size of the book, It is heavy and huge so you won't be carrying it on a plane, : I need to buy this book I read it cover to cover a year ago and just borrowed it again for reference,

Any book that tries to sum up "medieval times" for a popular audience is going to do a lot of simplifying, but this one does a pretty good job as far as I, who am Not A Historian, can tell.
It's a work of popular history and a bit older but makes extensive use of primary documents and, gratifyingly, tackles towns and villages as well as castle life,

The illustrations were added after the fact for this hardcover compilation, but they're for the most part carefully selected from medieval Books of Hours and other manuscripts only a scattering of irrelevant Victorian illustrations.


If you're reading this review, you MAY be a writer or artist, tabletop gamer, reenactor, etc, Another work I recommend is Daily Life in the Middle Ages by Paul B, Newman, which was fabulous for small details of material culture, And Dorothy Hartley's Lost Country Life is quirky and dated but has a lot of good stuff about the rhythms of agricultural life,

Now if only there were more accessible books out there on nonWestern material culture / social history, Heck, even coverage of eastern Europe is lacking in English, I try to create fantasy worlds that break the medieval mold, but I keep coming back to medieval/early modern Western Europe, and especially Britain, simply because of my confidence with my ability to handle the source material.
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This is a beast of a book in a good way, Picked it up for free, decided to read the first chapter before cutting it up, now I'm saving it as valuable reference material! Footnoted and sourced insanely thoroughly, I'm sure you could teach a class or write a novel around the sheer amount of FACT here.
The book is well researched, offering snippets from period writings depicting daily life during the Middle Ages, Highly enjoyable and informative! not fascinating, but useful, Well written, impeccably researched, informative, lovely pictures and very enjoyable, Daily Life in Medieval Times: A Vivid, Detailed Account of Birth, Marriage and Death Food, Clothing and Housing Love and Labor in the Middle Ages by Frances Giesed on sitelinktumblr.
Dates approximate, and I think I'd read at least one of the component volumes previously, Hardcover folio sizeComplete Medieval Life series in one volume, A really fun read.

I always want more illustrations in books, especially when medieval manuscripts are concerned, and this book had plenty, It was fantastic.

The content was good, and edited in an accessible way, This isn't a "textbook" or any sort of comprehensive history, Rather, I think it was meant for people who already have a solid background in the history, but are looking for more anecdotes, factoids, and "flavor" to add some life to the historical info.
A beloved trilogy of 'Daily Life' books putting the reader at ground level in the Middle Ages in a castle, a village and a city, Part or rather, Book One was actually a reread for me, as I'd purchased it separately a number of years back and read it, Oddly enough, this socalled illustrated edition featured less illustrations than the single edition I have, and the illustrations were less relevant to the text as a while, Which makes me wonder whether it's worth tracking down the otherbooks individually to see the impact of their illustrations,
I'm a sucker for medieval histories that plunge the reader into the daily lives of folk, The only criticisms I would have of these books, in particular the book on City life was a that it was too short and b the chapter on thearter was heavily reliant on retelling mostly one play and didn't really have much to say otherwise.
Apart from that, and the aforementioned more general nature of the otherwise lush illustrations throughout the book, this has been a delightful reading romp,
The city book in particular, concentrating on Troyes as it does, did rather shape my next choice for medieval reading, Frances and and her husband sitelink Joseph Gies were historians and writers who collaborated on a number of books about the Middle Ages as well as wrote individual works, Frances and and her husband sitelink Joseph Gies were historians and writers who collaborated on a number of books about the Middle Ages as well as wrote individual works, sitelink.