San Antonio College Library

The finest general introduction to the medieval world of recent times - lavishly illustrated, with numerous maps and charts, each volume presents a synthesis of scholarly research. To coincide with the publication of Volume II and the completion of The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Middle Ages, a boxed set of all three volumes will be available from May 1997. It will provide an illustrated and accessible guide to medieval society, from 350...

"Medieval People is an account of the lives of six persons during the Middle Ages: a Frankish peasant; Marco Polo, the Venetian traveler; Madame Eglentyne, prioress of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; a middle-class Parisian housewife; two English merchants, one engaged in the wool trade and the other an Essex clothier. The author has illustrated various aspects of social life of the era by drawing on such sources as account books, diaries, letters, records,...

All Things Medieval: An Encyclopedia of the Medieval World covers the widest definition of "medieval Europe" possible, not by covering history in the traditional, textbook manner of listing wars, leaders, and significant historic events, but by presenting detailed alphabetical entries that describe the artifacts of medieval Europe. By examining the hidden material culture and by presenting information about topics that few books cover--pottery, locks...