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Item Details
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THE SECRET MIDDLE AGES
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| By: |
Malcolm Jones |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£14.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0750938749 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780750938747 |
| Publisher: |
THE HISTORY PRESS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
30 September, 2004 |
| Pages: |
400 |
| Description: |
Using a wealth of medieval art, much of it unseen or ignored by museums and art historians, Malcolm Jones paints a picture of life as imagined by the great mass of ordinary people between 1200 and 1500. The picture that emerges is of a civilization both like and unlike our own, one that teems with the richness of life and its contradictions. |
| Synopsis: |
Using the wealth of medieval art, much of it unseen or ignored by museums and art historians, Malcolm Jones paints a compelling picture of life as imagined by the great mass of ordinary people between 1200 and 1500. The picture that emerges is of a civilisation that is both like and unlike our own, one that teems with the richness of life and its contradictions. Unlike most studies of the medieval world, it does not concern itself greatly with religious or aristocratic art but with the products of popular and folk art. Here we find beliefs and traditions rendered memorable by the vivid creative imagination and strong visual culture of the middle ages. Love, hatred, crime and punishment, proverbs, heaven on earth, husband-beating -- all feature in the jewellery, tableware, illustrations, carvings and textiles of the period. This book offers a major reassessment of the high medieval period. It will be essential reading for medievalists and those interested in the history of language and customs. It provides a brilliant and evocative picture of medieval Europe where people spent their time wearing their hearts on their sleeves, snapping sausages and getting bees in their bonnets. As M |
| Illustrations: |
160 illustrations, (110 colour ) |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Sutton Publishing Ltd |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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