Life in a Medieval Village

Life in a Medieval Village

Life in a Medieval Village

Life in a Medieval Village

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780062016683
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 09/07/2010
Series: Medieval Life
Sold by: HARPERCOLLINS
Format: eBook
Pages: 272
Sales rank: 237,448
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

Frances (1915–2013) and Joseph (1916–2006) Gies were the world’s bestselling historians of medieval Europe. Together and separately, they wrote more than twenty books, which col-lectively have sold more than a million copies. They lived in Michigan.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Prologue: Elton 1

1 The Village Emerges 6

2 The English Village: Elton 19

3 The Lord 44

4 The Villagers: Who They Were 67

5 The Villagers: How They Lived 88

6 Marriage and the Family 106

7 The Village at Work 129

8 The Parish 155

9 Village Justice 172

10 The Passing of the Medieval Village 195

Notes 209

Bibliography 233

Glossary 243

Index 247

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