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A Day in a Medieval City by Chiara Frugoni; William McCuaig (Translator); Arsenio Frugoni (Introduction by)ISBN: 9780226266343
Publication Date: 2005-09-01
An opportunity to experience the daily hustle and bustle of life in the late Middle Ages, A Day in a Medieval City provides a captivating dawn-to-dark account of medieval life. A visual trek through the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries with seasoned historian and expert on medieval iconography Chiara Frugoni as guide this book offers a vast array of images and vignettes that depicts the everyday hardships and commonplace pleasures for people living in the Middle Ages.
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Urban Europe, 1500-1700 by Alexander CowanISBN: 9780340663240
Publication Date: 1998-06-25
Examining the nature and diversity of urban life during the 16th and 17th centuries -- a period of considerable economic, political and social change -- this text stresses the extent to which towns remained distinct from their rural hinterlands.
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The Early Modern City, 1450-1750 by C. R. FriedrichsPublication Date: 1995-04-01
A study of cities and towns in early modern Europe. Europe is defined in this study as the region encompassed, at the start of early modern times, by the Church of Rome. This includes all of western and central Europe and some of eastern Europe, but it excludes Russia and the Ottoman Empire.
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Life in a Medieval Village by Frances Gies; Joseph GiesISBN: 9780060162153
Publication Date: 1990-02-01
A lively, detailed picture of village life in the Middle Ages by the authors of Life in a Medieval City and Life in a Medieval Castle. A good general introduction to the history of this period.
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Medieval Villages in an English Landscape: beginnings and ends by Ri'Chard Jones; Mark PagePublication Date: 2006-12-01
The village - one of the keystones of the English rural landscape - has a powerful hold on the imagination. The origin of nucleated and dispersed settlements - the countryside of villages and the countryside of hamlets - has since become a central concern of landscape historians. This book looks at the reasons for fundamental changes in landscape that occurred in the parish of Whittlewood between AD 800 - 1400.
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