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Christopher Dyer, "Everyday Life in Medieval England" (repost)

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Christopher Dyer, "Everyday Life in Medieval England" (repost)

Christopher Dyer, "Everyday Life in Medieval England"
Publisher: Hambledon | 2000 | ISBN: 1852851120/1852852011 | English | PDF | 352 pages | 20.73 Mb

Everyday Life in Medieval England captures the day-to-day experience of people in the middle ages - the houses and settlements in which they lived, the food they ate, their getting and spending - and their social relationships. The picture that emerges is of great variety, of constant change, of movement and of enterprise. Many people were downtrodden and miserably poor, but they struggled against their circumstances, resisting oppressive authorities, to build their own way of life and to improve their material conditions. The ordinary men and women of the middle ages appear throughout. Everyday life in Medieval England is an outstanding contribution to both national and local history.
"This is an excellent book, not just in its detailed evidence but as an arresting survey of rural society, particularly at the sub-aristocratic level. It extends our knowledge of social history with new insights into how people lived, worked, ate, traded and related to one another." –Nicholas Orme.


Christopher Dyer is Professor of Medieval Social History at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of "Standards of Living in the Late Middle Ages."


Christopher Dyer, "Everyday Life in Medieval England" (repost)