Day in a Medieval City

Name: Day in a Medieval City
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ISBN: 9780226266350

ISBN-10: 0226266354

ISBN-13: 9780226266350

Edition: 2006

Authors: Chiara Frugoni, Arsenio Frugoni, William McCuaig

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An opportunity to experience the daily hustle and bustle of life in the late Middle Ages," A Day in a Medieval City" provides a captivating dawn-to-dark account of medieval life. A visual trek through the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries--with seasoned historian and expert on medieval iconography Chiara Frugoni as guide--this book offers a vast array of images and vignettes that depicts the everyday hardships and commonplace pleasures for people living in the Middle Ages. "A Day in a Medieval City" breathes life into the activities of the city streets, homes, fields, schools, and places of worship. With entertaining anecdotes and gritty details, it engages the modern reader with its…

Book details

List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/15/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.61" wide x 9.61" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Chiara Frugoni is professor emerita of medieval studies at the University of Rome. She is the author of several books, including Books, Banks, Buttons: And Other Inventions from the Middle Ages. William McCuaig is an independent scholar and translator who has translated two previous books by Chiara Frugoni.



Author's Note


Translator's Note


Introduction




The Time of Labor, the Time of Memory



The Road That Leads to the City



Inside the City



The Lives of Children



Childhood Learning



Adult Reading



Indoors


Abbreviations


Notes


Bibliography


Index