Life in the Middle Ages American Heritage Series (Audible Audio Edition) Richard Winston Shaun Grindell a division of Recorded Books HighBridge Books
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Here, National Book Award winner Richard Winston explores life in the Middle Ages - from the fifth to the 15th centuries - beginning with the fall of the Roman Empire and ending with the dawn of the Renaissance. In both countryside and cities, from the peasants to the bourgeoisie to the nobility, no aspect of life in this era is left unexplored.
Life in the Middle Ages American Heritage Series (Audible Audio Edition) Richard Winston Shaun Grindell a division of Recorded Books HighBridge Books
The book is written in an energetic and active style that describes the daily life of both peasantry and nobility in the Middle Ages. The focus is France, mostly during the latter Middle Ages. The areas concerned are both rural and town life with attention paid to "the Church" and the bourgeoisie (to the extent they existed). There is a section on women's roles. Paris, being a unique melting pot for all sorts of classes, has its own chapter. A final section recalls the lives and activity of those on society's margins ("the lower depths").I enjoyed the details of the people's clothing, living conditions, work lives, beliefs, values, and overall mentality. I felt the book a good refresher for those more mundane details often overlooked and a good introduction for casual readers.
HOWEVER, the lack of illustrations in the Kindle version greatly diminished the book's value to me. The author refers to medieval settings, scenes, "calendar pictures" - indeed, the author seems to be describing paintings, illustrations, statues, and etc. - but none are iniluded. Frankly, describing items, clothing, housing, castles, and countryside - rather than including graphics - seems to me to be a too convenient way to fill up pages with a wall of words that could be replaced with an illustration. An author could then use his time for analysis and commentary.
Worth purchasing if greatly discounted. Perhaps the hard cover version had illustrations (though I wonder, if so, why the author would describe so much if the reader saw the illustrations).
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Life in the Middle Ages American Heritage Series (Audible Audio Edition) Richard Winston Shaun Grindell a division of Recorded Books HighBridge Books Reviews
I was looking for a book in the same league with Barbara Tuckman, "A Distant Mirror." This book would appeal to a student in high school AP history. There is a brief mention of The Lord of Coucy. I would prefer a book like "At Day's Close Night in Times Past" by A. Roger Ekirch with much detail and extensive notes. At Day's Close Night in Times Past Another example is "Daily Life in Ancient Rome - The People and the City at the Height of the Empire" by Jerome Carcopino. Daily Life in Ancient Rome - The People and the City at the Height of the Empire
The material is great and well presented but there are a LOT of typos in this book! Someone needed to edit this manuscript before it was published. The constant typos are very distracting.
This really should be called Life in the Middle Ages in France. There are no other countries whose life is gone into in any kind of detail beyond a fragment of a sentence here and there.
On the whole though it is a pretty interesting read although a light one.
Quite interesting. However it skips around a lot, covering some things in detail and skipping over some things that would have been interesting. Also many grammar and spelling issues.
Enjoyably written, but a bit of a surface skimming. The author looks at all the classes and living environments of Middle Ages France. But only France is covered, and while the MA lasted from the fall of Rome until the Renaissance, only the later MA is covered. There is not a single footnote or bibliographic entry given. While I have faith in the author’s scholarship and integrity, I would have enjoyed it if he offered sources of his history and offered alternative views of other historians and provided.sources to read further about the various topics.
It is interesting, but shallow. It's almost exclusively about France. The author tells us about how various classes lived; nobility, peasantry, artisans, criminals, clergy, students. It appears that most of the detail for each comes from one or two sources--the relation of the Spanish captain who guested at a French nobleman's home implied that all nobility were like that. One obscure person described Paris, lists and anecdotes.
The author gives us infrastructure information, which is important. It may be unpleasant to hear of how sewage is disposed of, for example, but you don't need much imagination to know how it affected life; smells, disease, difficulty of getting potable water.
I suppose the summation would be, If I had to live in one or another class in the Middle Ages, I'd like to live like most of the folks the author describes. Because almost everybody else had it worse. But you have to know that independently.
The exception, of course, would be The Hundred Years War and civil wars. In that case, being off the line of march would be a blessing.
Life in the Middle Ages is a worthy read. Examples of life in Paris, the beginnings of hospitals, the lifestyles of the bourgeoisie, peasants etc. are spellbinding. The only criticism of Richard Winston' s book is the abrupt ending.
The book is written in an energetic and active style that describes the daily life of both peasantry and nobility in the Middle Ages. The focus is France, mostly during the latter Middle Ages. The areas concerned are both rural and town life with attention paid to "the Church" and the bourgeoisie (to the extent they existed). There is a section on women's roles. Paris, being a unique melting pot for all sorts of classes, has its own chapter. A final section recalls the lives and activity of those on society's margins ("the lower depths").
I enjoyed the details of the people's clothing, living conditions, work lives, beliefs, values, and overall mentality. I felt the book a good refresher for those more mundane details often overlooked and a good introduction for casual readers.
HOWEVER, the lack of illustrations in the version greatly diminished the book's value to me. The author refers to medieval settings, scenes, "calendar pictures" - indeed, the author seems to be describing paintings, illustrations, statues, and etc. - but none are iniluded. Frankly, describing items, clothing, housing, castles, and countryside - rather than including graphics - seems to me to be a too convenient way to fill up pages with a wall of words that could be replaced with an illustration. An author could then use his time for analysis and commentary.
Worth purchasing if greatly discounted. Perhaps the hard cover version had illustrations (though I wonder, if so, why the author would describe so much if the reader saw the illustrations).
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