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Life During Medieval Times

September 17, 2017 | SuzyQ
The time traveler's guide to Medieval England : a handbook for visitors to the fourteenth century by Ian Mortimer

Profiles everyday life in fourteenth-century England, covering everything from period beliefs and styles to hygiene and medical practices, and also discusses the influence of warfare.

The medieval world : an illustrated atlas
The Penguin historical atlas of the medieval world by Andrew Jotischky
The history of the medieval world : from the conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade by S. Wise Bauer
The axe and the oath : ordinary life in the Middle Ages by Robert Fossier
What life was like in the age of chivalry : medieval Europe, AD 800-1500
The world of the medieval knight : a vivid exploration of the origins, rise and fall of the noble order of knighthood, illustrated with over 220 fine-art paintings and photographs by Charles Phillips
Knight : the warrior and world of chivalry by Robert W Jones
Life in a medieval castle by Joseph Gies
Medieval castles by Marilyn Stokstad
Castle [videodisc] by David Macaulay

Author David Macaulay leads viewers on a castle tour, explaining its cultural and sociological significance and its architectural design. Detailed animation dramatizes the building of the castle and portrays the lifestyle of the early inhabitants.

Castles : their history and evolution in medieval Britain by Marc Morris

Beginning with their introduction in the eleventh century, and ending with their widespread abandonment in the seventeenth, Marc Morris explores many of the country's most famous castles, as well as some spectacular lesser-known examples.

The medieval city by Norman John Greville Pounds
A day in a medieval city by Chiara Frugoni
Life in a medieval city by Joseph Gies
Daily life in medieval times by Frances Gies
Medieval people by Eileen Edna Power
Archers, alchemists, and 98 other medieval jobs you might have loved or loathed by Priscilla Galloway
Sports and games of medieval cultures by Sally Wilkins
Fabulous feasts : medieval cookery and ceremony by Madeleine Pelner Cosman
Medieval costume, armour, and weapons by Eduard Wagner
Medieval costume and fashion by Herbert Norris
Medieval combat : a fifteenth-century illustrated manual of swordfighting and close-quarter combat by Hans Talhoffer
Medieval siege [videodisc]

Historians discuss the history, use and design of a medieval weapon called a trebuchet which is much like a giant slingshot.

Heraldry : an introduction to a noble tradition by Michel Pastoureau