Manners and Customs in the Middle Ages (Medieval World (Crabtree Paperback))
by Marsha Groves
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Author: Marsha GrovesEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-11
ISBN: 077871389X
Number of pages: 32
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
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Book Review: Manners and Customs in the Middle Ages
Summary: 5 Stars
These books in The Medieval World series (there are 20), published by Crabtree Publishing Company, serve myriad purposes. For the intended reading age, 9-12, they present medieval life--very confusing to our contemporary conventions--in a perfectly understandable fashion. For that age range, I could not recommend these books higher. If I'd had such materials when I was younger, I might have ended up as a medieval scholar.
Yet they also serve a purpose that the publisher may not have intended, and that is for the casual researcher of medieval life.
There are accessible texts for the casual researcher, this is true, but none that I've seen contain simple explanations and diagrams. For example, this book is full of wonderful illustrations that depict manners as they relate to the chapters below (a squire being knighted, serving a bishop, teaching young boys to serve as pages, etc.), with a two-page diagram of Harvest Time; and many, many more.
Every page in this book (there are 32 pages in every book in the series), is presented in full color, the pages colored to resemble parchment, and the illustrations done to wonderfully evoke the period.
The "chapters" included are:
The Middle Ages
Orders of Society
Noble Youth
At the Table
Chivalrous Knights
In a Monastery
A Woman's World
Wedding Customs
Birth and Death
Winter Festivities
Spring Holidays
Harvest Time
Glossary and Index (wonderful to have!)
If you're a writer, and you're looking for simple information on what medieval life looked like, this series of books can't be beat. To buy the entire series may be prohibitive, but if you have an idea of exactly what you want, this is a great starting point.
My only complaint would have to be that I wish these books were bound together in a single volume. Some of the material overlaps from book to book, and as the books themselves are only 32 pages long, a single volume would run well under 200 pages, I would imagine.
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