Medieval People

Medieval People is an account of the lives of six individuals who lived during the Middle Ages: a Frankish peasant; Marco Polo, the Venetian traveler; Madame Eglentyne, prioress of Chaucer's Cantervury Tales; a middle-class Parisian housewife; two English merchants, one engaged in the wool trade and the other in Essex clothier. The author has illustrated various aspects of social life of the era by drawing on such sources as account books, diaries, letters, records, and wills. A previously unpublished essay by Eileen Power has been added to the present edition. Entitled "The Precursors," it describes the barbarian conquest of Rome.

Product details

• Authors: Eileen E Power, Eileen E. Power, Power Eileen
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.05.1992
• EAN: 9780060922757
• ISBN: 978-0-06-092275-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / World, CE period up to c 1500, General and world history, Biography: historical, political and military, HISTORY: Medieval, HISTORY: Europe / Western