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Living History
Life During Medieval Times
In western Europe, the medieval era was a period of great diversity, so that for many it was a time of adventure, prosperity, innovation, and an expansion of freedom, while for others it represented adherence to tradition, poverty, hardship, ignorance, and unceasing labor. Concentrating on the high Middle Ages, the lives of the nobility, peasants, bourgeoisie, and academics are among the topics discussed in this social history.
96 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 2013
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December 27, 2016
Learned lots of neat things in here about the Medieval Times (and I still wonder how they know all this stuff). Such as:
The rich, nobles didn't marry for love because "love can have no place between a husband and wife." Yet, they would love and woo other ladies to charm them because that was chivalrous. Ironically the poor peasants and smurfs were the opposite and did marry for love.
City "Planners" and the structure of cities started way back during these times. This was also how the social/middle/working class was formed.
Cats were regarded as evil during these times. I wish that belief was still widely shared because cats aren't even any good and they ruin everything.
College students behaved the same way back then as they do now.
Medicine didn't seem as barbaric as I imagined.
The rich, nobles didn't marry for love because "love can have no place between a husband and wife." Yet, they would love and woo other ladies to charm them because that was chivalrous. Ironically the poor peasants and smurfs were the opposite and did marry for love.
City "Planners" and the structure of cities started way back during these times. This was also how the social/middle/working class was formed.
Cats were regarded as evil during these times. I wish that belief was still widely shared because cats aren't even any good and they ruin everything.
College students behaved the same way back then as they do now.
Medicine didn't seem as barbaric as I imagined.
September 26, 2025
A light start to learning to about the Medieval period, particularly focused on the High Middle Ages which occurred between 1000 to early 1300s AD.
The topics were castle life, village life, city life, religious life and university life.
Reason for the rating was due to the repeated ideas (such as the type of entertainment people of this time liked) and also the general theorizing of what may have occurred for certain groups (i.e. peasants) due to the lack of historical records.
The topics were castle life, village life, city life, religious life and university life.
Reason for the rating was due to the repeated ideas (such as the type of entertainment people of this time liked) and also the general theorizing of what may have occurred for certain groups (i.e. peasants) due to the lack of historical records.
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