Everyday Life in Medieval England

By Christopher Dyer

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852852011
• ISBN13: 9781852852016
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Title is a Misnomer

Scholastic scholars should never misidentified a book by implying it is an account of daily life, when in fact it is a RESEARCH treatise. It is a diatribe of 327 pages with brief conjectures of reviewed historical tallies. I found nothing pertaining to how "sub-aristocratic" (peasant) people vibrantly lived their lives in the Medieval times of England. Mr. Dyer couldn't tell anyone how a real Medieval human conducted their life …from sunrise to sunset… if he wished. This "book" is a disappointment designed for student examination. It does not provide any insights of exactly how a Medieval "personal" daily life was joyfully lived, or suffered.