Author: Robert Delort
Life in the Middle Ages
Phaidon Press Ltd
1974
348
Format: Pdf
Size: 16 MB
Language: English
Historian Hans-Werner Goetz presents here a comprehensive depiction of life in the earlier Middle Ages that focuses on "everyday history". According to Goetz it is nearly impossible to write a history of everyday life during the Middle Ages since the written sources of that age had entirely different purposes, never describing everyday life for its own sake.