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In this classic of social history, noted medieval scholar Eileen Power recreates the lives of six ordinary people who lived during the Middle Ages. Drawing upon account books, diaries, letters, records, wills, and other authentic historical documents, she brings to vivid life Bodo, a Frankish peasant in the time of Charlemagne; Marco Polo, the well-known Venetian traveler of the 13th century; Madame Eglentyne, Chaucer's prioress in real life; a Parisian housewife of the 14th century; Thomas Betson, a 15th-century English merchant; and Thomas Paycocke of Coggeshall, an Essex clothier in the days of Henry VII.
Largely untouched by fame (with the exception of Marco Polo), the lives and activities of these common people offer a unique glimpse of various aspects of the medieval world — peasant life, monastic life, the wool trade, Venetian trade with the East, domestic life in a middleclass home, and more. Enlivened with charming illustrations and touches of humor, this scholarly, yet highly readable work "possesses a color, a dramatic touch that humanizes the dry bones of charters and documents." — New York Tribune.
Students, teachers of history, and anyone interested in medieval life will be delighted with this spirited account that is sure to capture the imaginations of general readers as well.
- Sales Rank: #999631 in Books
- Published on: 2000-09-18
- Released on: 2000-09-18
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.43" h x .49" w x 5.39" l, .58 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 256 pages
- ISBN13: 9780486414355
- Condition: New
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"It possesses a color, a dramatic touch that humanizes." -- --New York Tribune
About the Author
Eileen Power(1889 1940) was a writer and a feminist known for being the second woman appointed to a Chair in economic history at the London School of Economics. After marrying the historian Michael Postan in 1937, she became professor of economic history at Cambridge University.
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84 of 85 people found the following review helpful.
A view of History from the Medieval Kitchens
By Marc Comtois
Eileen Power's Medieval People sets out to study the Middle Ages not from the viewpoint of an Historical abstraction, but rather from that of the people who lived during the age. It is an account of six individuals who lived during the MA's; Bodo, a Frankish Peasant; Marco Polo, the famous Venetian merchant; Madame Eglentyne, prioress of Chaucer; an anonymous middle-class Parisian housewife; and two English merchants, one engaged in the wool trade and the other a clothier in Essex. The author has illustrated various aspects of social life of the era by drawing on such sources as account books, diaries, letters, records, and wills. She starts the work with a previously unpublished essay entitled "The Precursors," which describes the barbarian conquest of Rome. In this, she describes the lives of three men, Ausonius, Sidonius and Fortunatus and uses them to foreshadow the life that would re-emerge in the Middle Ages.
She starts by imagining a day in the life of the Peasant Bodo, in the time of Charlemagne. From her study of primarily economic documents from the Middle Ages of this time, she not only extrapolates but truly brings to life Bodo and his wife Ermentrude. From there, she goes on to the better documented life of Marco Polo, and also describes how he served as an inspiration for Columbus. Madam Eglentyne is next. Here, Power humorously details the inner workings of a gossipy nunnery and how Eglentyne would have gone about her life as an aristocratic women of God. She next details the life of a middle class Parisian housewife by studying the contents of the Menagier's Wife and validating many of it's points by citing other documents. She concludes by detailing the lives of the two Thomases; Betson and Paycocke of Coggeshall. Both are merchants and provide a chance for Power to really show off her grasp of medieval economics as well as an ability to compile disparate correspondences into a story of a life. This is a rare scholarly work that truly entertains while being read. One of the best books I've ever read.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Interesting, But Too Much Chaucerian English
By Kim M Kremer
I enjoyed much of this book, but I would have enjoyed it a great deal more without the lengthy passages in the language of the time.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
By a Medieval Scholar for Medieval Scholars
By Silver
I very much enjoyed this book on my MP3, but I would hesitate to recommend it to anyone who is not (as I am) fluent in the subtleties of the mores, language and customs of Medieval times, as well as Latin and French.
Eileen Power (the author) frequently uses terms with which the modern reader will not be familiar without explanation. For example, she speaks at length about the cloth industry, and repeatedly mentions fullers and fulling without once explaining the duties of the fuller. Wikipedia defines fulling as a step in woolen clothmaking which involves the cleansing of cloth (particularly wool) to eliminate oils, dirt, and other impurities, and making it thicker. Few modern readers would know (without continually resorting to another reference) many of the terms frequently used which are important for following the stories told in this book. The rare definitions she does provide tend to be for terms which are not essential to the stories and are notable by their very rarity.
Long sections of the book are written in Latin french (I have no idea if it is modern or Medieval french) with no translation. As someone who knows little to no french or Latin, this was quite frustrating. An occasional french phrase might be puzzled out in a similar book, but entire pages are not within the grasp of the average reader, even the average well educated (American) reader.
The author dropped names from literature with which she expected the reader to be immediately familiar. She expected an immediate familiarity with each of the characters from Chaucer, and their habits and stories, as well as other literary and historical figures. I can not quote other examples as I have to admit to not being familiar enough with some of them to have remembered them, and as I tend to listen to my MP3 while driving I could not take notes for later reference.
A note specific to the audio listener - the reader had one of the best voices. It was smooth and melodic, an absolute joy to the ear!
Although I enjoyed this book quite a bit, I could not help but wish the author had written it for the common man, not to impress her fellow scholars. One would expect her editor to see this problem and tell her to define her terms, and to translate the foreign passages. This small change would have made this book go from a book which now would confuse most people to a medieval primer, suitable to introduce the masses to social history.
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