Life in a Medieval City

Life in a Medieval City

Life in a Medieval City

Life in a Medieval City

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Overview

From acclaimed historians Frances and Joseph Gies comes the reissue of their classic book on day-to-day life in medieval cities, which was a source for George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones series.

Evoking every aspect of city life in the Middle Ages, Life in a Medieval City depicts in detail what it was like to live in a prosperous city of Northwest Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The year is 1250 CE and the city is Troyes, capital of the county of Champagne and site of two of the cycle Champagne Fairs—the “Hot Fair” in August and the “Cold Fair” in December. European civilization has emerged from the Dark Ages and is in the midst of a commercial revolution. Merchants and money men from all over Europe gather at Troyes to buy, sell, borrow, and lend, creating a bustling market center typical of the feudal era. As the Gieses take us through the day-to-day life of burghers, we learn the customs and habits of lords and serfs, how financial transactions were conducted, how medieval cities were governed, and what life was really like for a wide range of people.

For serious students of the medieval era and anyone wishing to learn more about this fascinating period, Life in a Medieval City remains a timeless work of popular medieval scholarship.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780062016676
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 08/03/2010
Series: Medieval Life , #1
Sold by: HARPERCOLLINS
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
Sales rank: 303,531
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Frances (1915–2013) and Joseph (1916–2006) Gies were the world’s bestselling historians of medieval Europe. Together and separately, they wrote more than twenty books, which col-lectively have sold more than a million copies. They lived in Michigan.

Table of Contents

Prologue 1

1 Troyes: 1250 23

2 A Burgher's Home 34

3 A Medieval Housewife 46

4 Childbirth and Children 58

5 Weddings and Funerals 68

6 Small Business 76

7 Big Business 98

8 The Doctor 109

9 The Church 120

10 The Cathedral 135

11 School and Scholars 154

12 Books and Authors 166

13 The New Theater 183

14 Disasters 190

15 Town Government 199

16 The Champagne Fair 211

After 1250 224

Genealogy of the Counts of Champagne 230

Notes 232

Bibliography 246

Index 263

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