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Medieval People (1924)

by Eileen Power

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Every schoolboy knows that the Middle Ages arose on the ruins of the Roman Empire. The decline of Rome preceded and in some ways prepared the rise of the kingdoms and cultures which composed the medieval system.
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  laplantelibrary | Feb 7, 2023 |
Just couldn't get into it so I quit. Too dry. ( )
  AliceAnna | Aug 13, 2014 |
These are genuinely endearing stories of individuals of medieval Europe who were not royalty or aristocracy. Power gleans details of the lives of these people from numerous sources, and, at least in the case of the peasant, Bodo, uses these sources to create a composite character, due to the lack of sufficient historical information about any one historical person.

Powers describes the lives, homes, general living conditions and practices, the towns and villages, and the working and leasure time of her subjects. With varying degrees of success, Powers is able to bring three-dimensional figures to life, and at the end of this work, one feels like one is leaving new friends.

Highly recommended to anyone who enjoys cultural history or simply wants a better idea of medieval life.

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2 vote Osbaldistone | Oct 10, 2009 |
Taking a completely novel approach for it's time, this book profiled the everyday lives of normal people in the middle ages. It does include Marco Polo, but he's the only person of any note in the book. I was bowled when I read it 40 years ago to learn that history could be about something other than the lives of kings and who was fighting who. I think even today's readers, for whom this approach to history is normal, would find these portraits interesting. ( )
1 vote aulsmith | Apr 26, 2009 |
history, mediaeval, historiography
  southerlyposts | Jun 28, 2013 |
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Power, EileenAuthorprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Limburg, Gebroeders vanCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Meertens, A.H.Chr.Translatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Terzi, LodovicoTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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"I counsel thee, shut not thy heart nor thy library"
CHARLES LAMB
For if heuene be on this erthe . and ese to any soule,
It is in cloistere or in scole . by many skilles I fynde;
For in cloistre cometh no man . to chide ne to fiᲴte,
But alle is buxomnesse there and bokes . to rede and to lerne,
In scole there is scorne . but if a clerke wil lerne,
And grete loue and lykynge . for eche of hem loueth other.
- LANGLAND, Piers Plowman
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To my colleagues and students of Girton College, Cambridge, 1913-1920
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Social history sometimes suffers from the reproach that it is vague and general, unable to compete with the attractions of political history either for the student or for the general reader, because of its lack of outstanding personalities.

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Economic history, as we know it, is the newest of all the branches of history.

Chapter I. The peasant Bodo.
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Every schoolboy knows that the Middle Ages arose on the ruins of the Roman Empire. The decline of Rome preceded and in some ways prepared the rise of the kingdoms and cultures which composed the medieval system.

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1st pub., 1924; 2nd imp., 1925; 3rd imp., 1926; 4th imp., 1929; 5th imp., 1933; 6th imp., 1935; pub. in Pelican Books, 1937.
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