Life in medieval Europe : fact and fiction / Daniele Cybulskie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cybulskie, Daniele, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe-History-476-1492-Miscellanea.

Europe--History--476-1492--Miscellanea.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 138 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Barnsley, South Yorkshire ; Philadelphia : Pen & Sword History, [2019]

Summary:

"A lovely, witty treasure trove of a book, spilling over with historical gems...a very human history: sometimes weird, always wonderful." --Dan Jones, New York Times -bestselling author Have you ever found yourself watching a show or reading a novel and wondering what life was really like in the Middle Ages?What did people actually eat?.

Contents:

Intro

Title

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

Chapter One A Dirty Little Secret

Did medieval people take baths?

Did they ever wash their hands?

Did they use soap?

What about their teeth?

Did they wash their clothes?

Were the cities filthy?

What about toilets?

Chapter Two Farming, Fasting, Feasting

What did people eat?

Didn't everyone just cook their meals at home?

Wasn't the food all bland?

How far did the trade routes stretch?

Did Europeans have a lot of contact with different cultures?

What did people drink?

Were they constantly drunk?

Was everyone up for a night of drunken excitement?

What was a feast like?

Did they really eat with their hands?

Did people have any table manners?

Did they have dessert?

Wasn't some of that a little unhygienic?

Chapter Three The Art of Love

Did medieval people date?

Weren't all of the marriages arranged?

How did they get married?

What about the wedding night?

What about their sex lives?

What about LGBTQIA+ people?

Even priests were having sex?

People were using contraceptives?

Did they love their children?

What was childhood like?

Did everyone die young?

How did people cope with death?

What actually happened when someone died?

Chapter Four Nasty and Brutish

Wasn't the whole political structure of the Middle Ages based on 'might is right'?

There were slaves in medieval Europe?

When a serf got married, did the lord get to sleep with the bride?

Weren't punishments always pretty brutal?

What about executions?

How did trial by combat and trial by ordeal work?

How did the justice system work after that?

They used forensic evidence?

If people didn't confess to their crimes, were they tortured?

Weren't medieval people always fighting?

Was the longbow really that deadly?.

What about crossbows?

What about knights?

Could they even move under all that armour?

Did knights get to use their skills often?

How did a siege work?

What is a trebuchet?

What else did besiegers do to get in?

Did anyone fight pitched battles?

Were guns invented in the Middle Ages?

Chapter Five The Age of Faith

Was medieval Europe ruled by the church?

How did people practice their faith?

Who took care of people's spiritual needs?

What was it like to be a monk or a nun?

Weren't monasteries also schools?

Weren't there a lot of stories about saints in the Middle Ages?

Did many people go on pilgrimages?

Did everyone believe?

Wasn't the church always burning people for heresy?

What was life like for the Jews?

What about Muslims?

What about the crusades?

Chapter Six In Sickness and in Health

What happened when people got hurt?

What happened when people got sick?

Did they rely solely on faith?

What if they needed surgery?

Did they have doctors like we do today?

What about women's medicine?

What about people with disabilities?

What was the Black Death?

Chapter Seven Couture, Competition, and Courtly Love

What did people wear?

Did they wear accessories?

How did people make their clothes?

Did medieval people wear underwear?

What did they do for fun?

Did they listen to music?

Did they play games?

Did they play any sports?

What about tournaments?

Did anyone read for pleasure?

A Final Word

Acknowledgements

Bibliography

Notes

Plate section.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-5267-3348-X

1-5267-3346-3

OCLC:

1204136148