Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
An age of chivalry, color, and faith from which the modern world still draws inspiration or centuries of violence, squalor, and superstition best forgotten? Marjorie Rowling refreshingly avoids any such extreme judgments so often passed on the Middle Ages. Instead, she looks closely at some of the people who lived and worked in that fascinating era of European history."
Table of Contents
Acknowledgment
1. Charlemagne and Society
2. Lords and Vassals
3. Townsmen and Traders
4. Women and Wives
5. Pilgrims and Crusaders
6. Monks and Friars
7. Schools and Scholars
8. Church Builders and Artists
9. Doctors and Patients
10. Scientists and Technologists
Chronology
Select Bibliography
Index