Frances Gies

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Frances Gies


Born
June 10, 1915

Died
December 18, 2013

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Frances and and her husband Joseph Gies were historians and writers who collaborated on a number of books about the Middle Ages as well as wrote individual works. ...more

Average rating: 3.83 · 11,491 ratings · 856 reviews · 22 distinct worksSimilar authors
Life in a Medieval City

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3.84 avg rating — 3,891 ratings — published 1969 — 38 editions
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Life in a Medieval Village

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3.87 avg rating — 2,198 ratings — published 1989 — 28 editions
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Cathedral, Forge, and Water...

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3.88 avg rating — 935 ratings — published 1994 — 21 editions
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Women in the Middle Ages

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3.77 avg rating — 898 ratings — published 1978 — 16 editions
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Marriage and the Family in ...

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3.80 avg rating — 583 ratings — published 1987 — 21 editions
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The Knight in History

3.75 avg rating — 404 ratings — published 1984 — 19 editions
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Daily Life in Medieval Times

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4.04 avg rating — 189 ratings — published 1990 — 6 editions
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La Vie dans un château médi...

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Joan of Arc: The Legend and...

4.03 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1981 — 3 editions
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Leonard of Pisa and the New...

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3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1983 — 7 editions
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“Theoretically, the curriculum consists of the “seven liberal arts.”2 But schools rarely teach all seven of the arts, and the emphasis is very unequal. These “arts” are “liberal” because their purpose is not moneymaking and because they are worthy of a free man. There are seven mainly because people are fond of the number seven, one of the keys to a numerologically ordered universe.”
Frances Gies, Life in a Medieval City

“He may leave a prescription of herbs and drugs, and recommend diet—perhaps chicken broth, the milk of pulverized almonds, or barley water mixed with figs, honey, and licorice.”
Frances Gies, Life in a Medieval City

“Scutage was an aspect of two fundamental historic trends in twelfth-century Europe that profoundly affected the knights. The first was the increasing concentration of power in the hands of a few kings and great princes that gradually professionalized warfare. The second was the economic upturn from the depressed state of the ninth and tenth centuries to the Commercial Revolution of the eleventh and twelfth centuries that raised living standards and inflated prices.”
Frances Gies, The Knight in History

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