A Medieval Life offers a biography of one woman, a portrait of her
world, and an introduction to historical method. A Medieval Life
offers a biography of one woman, a portrait of her world, and an
introduction to historical method. Written in a clear and
accessible style, it reworks a well-loved book to provide an
entirely new resource for students, teachers, and general readers.
Like Cecilia Penifader, most people in the Middle Ages were
peasants, humble people living socially below the knights, bishops,
and kings who figure so large in history books. Judith M. Bennett
shows that peasants, too, made history. She explores how peasant
lives were closely entangled with the lives and interests of those
more privileged, looking at manors as well as villages; parishes,
faith, and ritual practices; royal taxes and justice; economy and
trade; famine and disease. By moving out from Cecilia's
perspective, the book explores the ties and tensions that bound all
medieval people-poor as well as rich-into a medieval society. The
book also provides a primer on the fact-finding and interpretative
debates that are at the heart of the historian's craft. Each
chapter includes a new section on how medievalists today are
studying such topics as puberty, morals, courtship, and climate
change. The illustrations, taken from the famous Luttrell Psalter,
provide a coherent, rich, and interpretatively complex visual
program. And the final chapter explores some of the different ways
in which historians, for better and for worse, have understood
medieval society.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
