Chaucer's People - Everyday Lives in the Middle Ages (Picard Liza)(Paperback / softback)

Chaucer's People - Everyday Lives in the Middle Ages (Picard Liza)(Paperback / softback)

A fascinating exploration of the Middle Ages through the lives of Geoffrey Chaucer's pilgrims in The Canterbury

Dr Johnson's London (Picard Liza)(Paperback / softback)

The everyday realities of life in the city of Hogarth, Fielding and Dr Johnson, by the author of the bestselling Elizabeth's

Restoration London - Everyday Life in the 1660s (Picard Liza)(Paperback / softback)

From poverty to pets, medicine to magic, slang to sex and from wallpaper to women's rights - a glorious portrait of life in London from 1660-70, by the bestselling author of Elizabeth's

Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages (Rosenwein Barbara H.)(Paperback)

Proposing that people lived (and live) in 'emotional communities'--each having its own particular norms of emotional valuation and expression--Barbara H. Rosenwein here discusses some instances from the Early Middle Ages. Drawing on extensive microhistorical research, as well as cognitive and

Brief History of Life in the Middle Ages (Whittock Martyn)(Paperback / softback)

A fascinating new portrait of Medieval Britain that brings together the everyday and the

Victorian London (Picard Liza)(Paperback)

From rag-gatherers to royalty, from fish knives to Freemasons: everyday life in Victorian London. Like its acclaimed companion volumes, Elizabeth's London, Restoration London and Dr Johnson's London, this book is the product of the author's passionate interest in the realities of everyday life so

Philosophy in the Middle Ages - The Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Traditions(Paperback / softback)

How to Plan a Crusade - Reason and Religious War in the High Middle Ages (Tyerman Christopher)(Paperback / softback)

Everyday Citizenship and People with Dementia (Ann-Charlotte Nedlund)(Paperback)

Everyday Citizenship and People with Dementia prioritises the ordinary lives of people with dementia, and thereby broadens the agenda towards everyday citizenship. The contributors bring to the fore the idea that a person living with dementia has multiple opinions, identities and a stake in

The Natural and the Supernatural in the Middle Ages (Bartlett Robert)(Paperback)

How did people of the medieval period explain physical phenomena, such as eclipses or the distribution of land and water on the globe? What creatures did they think they might encounter: angels, devils, witches, dogheaded people? This fascinating book explores the ways in which medieval people

The Middle Ages: A Very Short Introduction (Rubin Miri)(Paperback)

The Middle Ages is a term coined around 1450 to describe a thousand years of European History. In this Very Short Introduction, Miri Rubin provides an exploration of the variety, change, dynamism, and sheer complexity that the period covers. From the provinces of the Roman Empire, which became

Cathedral Builders of the Middle Ages (Erlande-Brandenburg Alain)(Paperback / softback)

All over Europe, from Westminster to Rouen, the cathedrals of the Middle Ages still stand. This book explores the world of the medieval master mason. How were these structures built when only primitive machinery was available? Who initiated and designed them? Who built and paid for

Medieval Masons (Hislop Malcolm)(Paperback / softback)

Explains the practice of masoncraft in the Middle Ages, using evidence from a number of sources. This book investigates how a study of certain features in these buildings, such as the stonework and building joints, can contribute to our knowledge of working practices of masons in medieval

Medieval Travel and Travelers: A Reader (Romano John)(Paperback)

It is widely believed that people living in the Middle Ages seldom traveled. But, as Medieval Travel and Travelers reveals, many medieval people - and not only Marco Polo - were on the move for a variety of different reasons.Assuming no previous knowledge of medieval civilizations, this volume

The Canterbury Tales: A Prose Version in Modern English (Chaucer Geoffrey)(Paperback)

A clear modern prose translation of Chaucer's masterpiece of Middle English storytelling by the acclaimed poet David Wright. The Canterbury Tales has entertained readers for centuries, with its comic animal fables, moral allegories, miniature epics of courtly love, and rollicking erotic farces that

The Common Place of Law: Stories from Everyday Life (Ewick Patricia)(Paperback)

Why do some people not hesitate to call the police to quiet a barking dog in the middle of the night, while others accept the pain and losses associated with defective products, unsuccesful surgery, and discrimination? Patricia Ewick and Susan Silbey collected accounts of the law from more than

The Secular Enlightenment (Jacob Margaret)(Paperback)

A major history of how the Enlightenment transformed people's everyday lives The Secular Enlightenment is a panoramic account of the radical ways life began to change for ordinary people in the age of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau. In this landmark book, familiar Enlightenment figures share places

Runaway (Munro Alice)(Paperback / softback)

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this exquisite collection. Here are men and women of wildly different times and circumstances, their lives made vividly palpable by the nuance and empathy of Munro's writing. Runaway is about the power

The Middle Ages: A Graphic History (Janega Eleanor)(Paperback)

A unique, illustrated book that will change the way you see medieval history The Middle Ages: A Graphic History busts the myth of the 'Dark Ages', shedding light on the medieval period's present-day relevance in a unique illustrated style. This history takes us through the rise and fall of empires,

Middle Years - When the kids grow up... and everything goes tits down (Fraser Liz)(Paperback / softback)

Birmingham in 50 Buildings (Talbott Lorna)(Paperback / softback)

Although Birmingham's history goes back beyond the Middle Ages, there are only a few fragments of medieval Birmingham left, some of which have been moved from their original site as the city expanded. The city expanded rapidly in the industrial age and although Birmingham has many properties from

Handling Sin - Confession in the Middle Ages(Paperback / softback)

Penance, confession and their texts (penitential and confessors' manuals) are important topics for an understanding of the middle ages, in relation to a wide range of issues, from medieval social thought to Chaucer's background. These essays treat a variety of different aspects of the topic:

Medievalism: a Critical History (Matthews David)(Paperback)

The field known as 'medievalism studies' concerns the life of the Middle Ages after the Middle Ages. Originating some thirty years ago, it examines reinventions and reworkings of the medieval from the Reformation to postmodernity, from Bale and Leland to HBO's Game of Thrones. But what exactly is

Ending Up (Amis Kingsley)(Paperback / softback)

At Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage in the English countryside, five elderly people live together in rancorous disharmony. Adela Bastable bosses the house, as her brother Bernard passes his days thinking up malicious schemes against the baby-talking Marigold and secret drinker Shorty, while kindly George