Those Terrible Middle Ages

Author : Régine Pernoud
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 9780898707816
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Those Terrible Middle Ages written by Régine Pernoud and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As she examines the many misconceptions about the "Middle Ages", the renown French historian, Regine Pernoud, gives the reader a refreshingly original perspective on many subjects, both historical (from the Inquisition and witchcraft trials to a comparison of Gothic and Renaissance creative inspiration) as well as eminently modern (from law and the place of women in society to the importance of history and tradition). Here are fascinating insights, based on Pernoud's sound knowledge and extensive experience as an archivist at the French National Archives. The book will be provocative for the general readers as well as a helpful resource for teachers. Scorned for centuries, although lauded by the Romantics, these thousand years of history have most often been concealed behind the dark clouds of ignorance: Why, didn't godiche (clumsy, oafish) come from gothique (Gothic)? Doesn't "fuedal" refer to the most hopeless obscurantism? Isn't "Medieval" applied to dust-covered, outmoded things? Here the old varnish is stripped away and a thousand years of history finally emerge -- the "Middle Ages" are dead, long live the Middle Ages!

Author : Terry Deary
Publisher : Scholastic UK
ISBN 13 : 1407161733
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Horrible Histories: Measly Middle Ages (New Edition) written by Terry Deary and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers can discover all the foul facts about the MEASLY MIDDLE AGES, including why chickens had their bottoms shaved, a genuine jester's joke and what ten-year-old treacle was used for. With a bold, accessible new look, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans.

Author : Kathy Allen
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1496656466
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Horrible, Miserable Middle Ages written by Kathy Allen and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From leftover trenchers and stinky chamber pots to barber surgeons and the black plague, life could be really miserable for people during medieval times. Get ready to explore the nasty side of life in the Middle Ages.

Author : Kathy Allen
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 142963958X
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Horrible, Miserable Middle Ages written by Kathy Allen and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2010 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes disgusting details about daily life in the Middle Ages, including housing, food, and sanitation"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Stephen Harris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135986673
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Misconceptions About the Middle Ages written by Stephen Harris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-05-26 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brought together by an impressive, international array of contributors this book presents a representative study of some of the many misinterpretations that have evolved concerning the medieval period.

Author : Jeffrey Burton Russell
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501720317
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Witchcraft in the Middle Ages written by Jeffrey Burton Russell and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the known theories and incidents of witchcraft in Western Europe from the fifth to the fifteenth century are brilliantly set forth in this engaging and comprehensive history. Building on a foundation of newly discovered primary sources and recent secondary interpretations, Jeffrey Burton Russell first establishes the facts and then explains the phenomenon of witchcraft in terms of its social and religious environment, particularly in relation to medieval heresies. Russell treats European witchcraft as a product of Christianity, grounded in heresy more than in the magic and sorcery that have existed in other societies. Skillfully blending narration with analysis, he shows how social and religious changes nourished the spread of witchcraft until large portions of medieval Europe were in its grip, "from the most illiterate peasant to the most skilled philosopher or scientist." A significant chapter in the history of ideas and their repression is illuminated by this book. Our enduring fascination with the occult gives the author's affirmation that witchcraft arises at times and in areas afflicted with social tensions a special quality of immediacy.

Author : Régine Pernoud
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 9780898709490
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crusaders written by Régine Pernoud and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James A. Corrick
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
ISBN 13 : 1476577455
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disgusting History written by James A. Corrick and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2014 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes the disgusting details about daily life in several historical eras, including housing, food, and sanitation"--

Author : Ann Kerns
Publisher : Lerner Publications
ISBN 13 : 0761349154
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Did Castles Have Bathrooms? written by Ann Kerns and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals facts about the myths about the Middle Ages, including if castles had bathrooms, if medieval barbers were also dentists, and if medieval peasants were considered slaves.

Author : Matthew Gabriele
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062980912
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bright Ages written by Matthew Gabriele and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audiences for years to come….The Bright Ages is a rare thing—a nuanced historical work that almost anyone can enjoy reading.”—Slate "Incandescent and ultimately intoxicating." —The Boston Globe A lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common misperceptions of the European Middle Ages, showing the beauty and communion that flourished alongside the dark brutality—a brilliant reflection of humanity itself. The word “medieval” conjures images of the “Dark Ages”—centuries of ignorance, superstition, stasis, savagery, and poor hygiene. But the myth of darkness obscures the truth; this was a remarkable period in human history. The Bright Ages recasts the European Middle Ages for what it was, capturing this 1,000-year era in all its complexity and fundamental humanity, bringing to light both its beauty and its horrors. The Bright Ages takes us through ten centuries and crisscrosses Europe and the Mediterranean, Asia and Africa, revisiting familiar people and events with new light cast upon them. We look with fresh eyes on the Fall of Rome, Charlemagne, the Vikings, the Crusades, and the Black Death, but also to the multi-religious experience of Iberia, the rise of Byzantium, and the genius of Hildegard and the power of queens. We begin under a blanket of golden stars constructed by an empress with Germanic, Roman, Spanish, Byzantine, and Christian bloodlines and end nearly 1,000 years later with the poet Dante—inspired by that same twinkling celestial canopy—writing an epic saga of heaven and hell that endures as a masterpiece of literature today. The Bright Ages reminds us just how permeable our manmade borders have always been and of what possible worlds the past has always made available to us. The Middle Ages may have been a world “lit only by fire” but it was one whose torches illuminated the magnificent rose windows of cathedrals, even as they stoked the pyres of accused heretics. The Bright Ages contains an 8-page color insert.