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 Gies and Joseph Gies

Book Overview

Compiles the Gies' three books Life in a Medieval Castle , Life in a Medievality and Life in a Medieval Village to provide a broad social history of4th-century Europe. They draw from both literary and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0760759138
• ISBN13: 9780760759134
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Barnes and Noble
• Length: 399 Pages
• Weight: 3.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A must-have.

This is a compilation of several of the Gies' books: "Life in a Medieval Castle", "Life in a Medieval Village", and "Life in a Medieval City". But it's so much more, making it a must-have even for people who own the other books. I own all of them, and I still was absolutely delighted with this book.Why? Because of the pictures! The softcover books don't have many pictures, if any at all, but this is LOADED with them, and quite a few are in color. It's absolutely outstanding, the way it is illustrated. Every single page just about is loaded with color photos of paintings, books, castles, portraits, you name it. They are all of excellent quality, though I'd have liked bigger ones, being the greedy person I am.Extras seem to include a genealogy of the Counts of Champagne and a geographic guide to castles, listing extant ones country-by-country through Europe. There are explanatory notes at the end, a large bibliography, and photography credits. There is also a glossary and an index that looks adequate. This is a huge book, heavy and hard-covered, almost a coffee table book except for its vast wealth of information.I'd say if you are interested in the Middle Ages, this would make a grand addition to your library -- and if you know someone who likes medieval history, this would make them a fantastic Christmas present.

A great book on Medieval Times!

I highly recommend this book. It is really good and full of historical information on the Medeival times. The subjects are divided by chapters. It is well written.

awesome

When I needed some extra information, I found this book. It was a very detailed account to several things about the middle ages, such as what material was widely used in garments to from where and how certain things, such as the castle, came to england or france. The chapter on the lady of the castle or on daily life in a village was most intriguing. I barely leave it alone, now.

Good reference book on the middle ages.

I found the book to be easily readable and makes a great companion to the other reference books that I have on the Middle Ages.