Town Life in the Fifteenth Century: The English towns ; The industrial revolution of the fifteenth century ; The commercial revolution of the fifteenth century ; The common life of the town ; The townspeople ; The problem of government ; Battle for freedom (towns on royal demesne) ; Battle for freedom (towns on feudal estates) ; Battle for freedom (towns on church estates ; Battle for supremacy ; The towns and the church ; Confederation
Town Life in the Fifteenth Century: The English towns ; The industrial revolution of the fifteenth century ; The commercial revolution of the fifteenth century ; The common life of the town ; The townspeople ; The problem of government ; Battle for freedom (towns on royal demesne) ; Battle for freedom (towns on feudal estates) ; Battle for freedom (towns on church estates ; Battle for supremacy ; The towns and the church ; Confederation

Author: Alice Stopford Green

Publisher:

Published: 1894

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13:

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Life in a Medieval Castle
Life in a Medieval Castle

Author: Joseph Gies

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2010-07-30

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0062016504

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From acclaimed historians Frances and Joseph Gies comes the reissue of this definitive classic on medieval castles, which was a source for George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones series. “Castles are crumbly and romantic. They still hint at an age more colorful and gallant than our own, but are often debunked by boring people who like to run on about drafts and grumble that the latrines did not work. Joseph and Frances Gies offer a book that helps set the record straight—and keeps the romance too.”—Time A widely respected academic work and a source for George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones, Joseph and Frances Gies’s bestselling Life in a Medieval Castle remains a timeless work of popular medieval scholarship. Focusing on Chepstow, an English castle that survived the turbulent Middle Ages with a relative lack of violence, the book offers an exquisite portrait of what day-to-day life was actually like during the era, and of the key role the castle played. The Gieses take us through the full cycle of a medieval year, dictated by the rhythms of the harvest. We learn what lords and serfs alike would have worn, eaten, and done for leisure, and of the outside threats the castle always hoped to keep at bay. For medieval buffs and anyone who wants to learn more about this fascinating era, Life in a Medieval Castle is as timely today as when it was first published.

Towns and Local Communities in Medieval and Early Modern England
Towns and Local Communities in Medieval and Early Modern England

Author: David M. Palliser

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-10-28

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1040248969

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Professor Palliser focuses here on towns in England in the centuries between the Norman Conquest and the Tudor period, on which he is an acknowledged authority. Urban topography, archaeology, economy, society and politics are all brought under review, and particular attention is given to relationships between towns and the Crown, to the evidence for migration into towns, and to the vexed question of urban fortunes in the 15th and 16th centuries. Two essays set urban history in a broader framework by considering recent work on town and village formation and on the development of parishes. The collection includes two hitherto unpublished studies and is introduced and put in context by a new survey of English towns from the 7th to the 16th centuries.

The Year 1000
The Year 1000

Author: Robert Lacey

Publisher: Abacus (UK)

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9780349113067

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THE YEAR 1000 is a vivid evocation of how English people lived a thousand years ago - no spinach, sugar or Caesarean operations in which the mother had any chance of survival, but a world that knew brain surgeons, property developers and, yes, even the occasional gossip columnist. In the spirit of modern investigative journalism, Lacey and Danziger interviewed the leading historians and archaeologists in their field. In the year 1000 the changing seasons shaped a life that was, by our standards, both soothingly quiet and frighteningly hazardous - and if you survived, you could expect to grow to just about the same height and stature as anyone living today. This exuberant and informative book concludes as the shadow of the millennium descends across England and Christendom, with prophets of doom invoking the spectre of the Anti-Christ. Here comes the abacus - the medieval calculating machine - along with bewildering new concepts like infinity and zero. These are portents of the future, and THE YEAR 1000 finishes by examining the human and social ingredients that were to make for survival and success in the next thousand years.

Women of the Renaissance
Women of the Renaissance

Author: Margaret L. King

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2008-04-10

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 0226436160

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In this informative and lively volume, Margaret L. King synthesizes a large body of literature on the condition of western European women in the Renaissance centuries (1350-1650), crafting a much-needed and unified overview of women's experience in Renaissance society. Utilizing the perspectives of social, church, and intellectual history, King looks at women of all classes, in both usual and unusual settings. She first describes the familial roles filled by most women of the day—as mothers, daughters, wives, widows, and workers. She turns then to that significant fraction of women in, and acted upon, by the church: nuns, uncloistered holy women, saints, heretics, reformers,and witches, devoting special attention to the social and economic independence monastic life afforded them. The lives of exceptional women, those warriors, queens, patronesses, scholars, and visionaries who found some other place in society for their energies and strivings, are explored, with consideration given to the works and writings of those first protesting female subordination: the French Christine de Pizan, the Italian Modesta da Pozzo, the English Mary Astell. Of interest to students of European history and women's studies, King's volume will also appeal to general readers seeking an informative, engaging entrance into the Renaissance period.

The Medieval Clothier
The Medieval Clothier

Author: John S. Lee

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 1783273178

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A clear and accessibly written guide to the medieval cloth-making trade in England.

Women in the Middle Ages
Women in the Middle Ages

Author: Frances Gies

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780064640374

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Correcting the omissions of traditional history, this is "a reliable survey of the real and varied roles played by women in the medieval period. . . . Highly recommended."--"Choice" Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.