Buildings and Landmarks of Medieval Europe : The Middle Ages Revealed / James B. Tschen-Emmons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tschen-Emmons, James B., author.

Series:

Family life through history

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxii, 347 pages) : illustrations, plans

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2023.

Place of Publication:

Greenwood, 2016.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

Through the use of images, diagrams, and detailed descriptions, this book enables readers to appreciate how the construction, design, and function of famous structures inform our understanding of societies of the past. Buildings and Landmarks of Medieval Europe: The Middle Ages Revealed makes use of significant buildings as "representative structures" to provide insight into specific cultures, historical periods, or topics of the Middle Ages. The explanations of these buildings' construction, original intended use and change over time, and design elements allow readers to better comprehend what life in European societies of the past was like, covering social, political, economic, and intellectual perspectives. Readers will be able to apply what they learn from the discussions of the structures to improve their understanding of the historical period as well as their skills of observation and assessment needed to analyze these landmark structures and draw meaningful conclusions about their context and significance. The book's supporting features-a chronology, biographical appendix, glossary, and subject index-help researchers in successfully completing their papers or projects.

Contents:

Introduction: Investigating the medieval family

The late Roman family and transition to the Middle Ages

The family in the medieval West

The family in the Byzantine East

The family in the Islamic world

The Jewish family in the Middle Ages

The physical environment of the medieval family

Grooms and brides, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers

Children and the family

Religion and the family

Families, labor, and the laboring family

The family as rhetorical device : traditional, transitional, and non-traditional families.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-233) and index.

ISBN:

979-84-00-62220-5

979-82-16-05680-5

1-4408-4182-9

OCLC:

966118881