Describes country and city life during the Middle Ages including such aspects as social order, religion, family life, agriculture, money and trade, war, pestilence, education, and architecture and other arts.
Earle Rice Jr. has written more than fifty books for young adults. Mr. Rice served honorably in the U.S. Marine Corps for nine years, including a tour of combat duty as a machine-gun squad leader during the Korean War. He is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, the League of World War I Aviation Historians, the United States Naval Institute, the Air Force Association, and the Disabled American Veterans.