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The medieval household was, like modern households, the center of family life for all classes of European society. Yet in contrast to the household of today, it consisted of many more individuals than the nuclear family. From the household of the king to the humblest peasant dwelling, more or less distant relatives and varying numbers of ...
Everyday Life in Medieval England. London: Bloomsbury academic. ISBN 9781852852016. Alcock, Nat (2014). The Medieval Peasant House in Midland England. Oxford: Oxbow Books. ISBN 9781782977148. Woolgar, C. M. (2016). The Culture of Food in England, 1200-1500. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300181913
Medieval England was a patriarchal society and the lives of women were heavily influenced by contemporary beliefs about gender and authority. [135] However, the position of women varied considerably according to various factors, including their social class ; whether they were unmarried, married, widowed or remarried; and in which part of the ...
Medieval art is colorful, creative, quirky, stylized, and goofy. The results are often incredibly bizarre but undeniably entertaining. The post ‘Weird Medieval Guys’: 50 Amusing And Confusing ...
Middle Ages c. AD 500 – 1500 A medieval stained glass panel from Canterbury Cathedral, c. 1175 – c. 1180, depicting the Parable of the Sower, a biblical narrative Including Early Middle Ages High Middle Ages Late Middle Ages Key events Fall of the Western Roman Empire Spread of Islam Treaty of Verdun East–West Schism Crusades Magna Carta Hundred Years' War Black Death Fall of ...
Ilya Stallone takes the quirky charm of medieval art and mashes it up with the chaos of modern life, creating comics that feel both hilarious and oddly timeless. Using a style straight out of ...
The Housebook is especially famous for its lively pictures by the so-called Master of the Housebook, which provide a vivid insight into everyday life at the transition from the late Middle Ages to the Renaissance. A housebook is a manuscript commissioned by the noble elite or wealthy citizens with a pedagogic content.
Daily Life in the Age of Charlemagne (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press) Laury Sarti, "Perceiving War and the Military in Early Christian Gaul (ca. 400–700 A.D.)" (= Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages, 22), Leiden/Boston 2013, ISBN 978-9004-25618-7. Richard Southern, 1953. The Making of the Middle Ages (Yale University Press)