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Every schoolboy knows that the Middle Ages arose on the ruins of the Roman Empire. The decline of Rome preceded and in some ways prepared the rise of the kingdoms and cultures which composed the medieval system.
Waarschijnlijk gedateerd, maar het was een van de eerste pogingen om de Middeleeuwen te evoceren vanuit de gewone man of vrouw. Niet simpel, met al die elitaire bronnen! ( )
These are genuinely endearing stories of individuals of medieval Europe who were not royalty or aristocracy. Power gleans details of the lives of these people from numerous sources, and, at least in the case of the peasant, Bodo, uses these sources to create a composite character, due to the lack of sufficient historical information about any one historical person.
Powers describes the lives, homes, general living conditions and practices, the towns and villages, and the working and leasure time of her subjects. With varying degrees of success, Powers is able to bring three-dimensional figures to life, and at the end of this work, one feels like one is leaving new friends.
Highly recommended to anyone who enjoys cultural history or simply wants a better idea of medieval life.
“Anche il popolo nel suo complesso, le masse anonime e indistinte del popolo che ora dormono in tombe sconosciute hanno avuto infine il loro riconoscimento”: così scrive Eileen Power, e in questo libro descrive la vita di sei personaggi medievali, individui comuni (ma rappresentativi) realmente esistiti, basandosi su documenti e testimonianze dell'epoca. Due sono famosi (Marco Polo e Madama Eglentyne, che è un personaggio letterario, ma sembra vero); gli altri quattro fanno parte della schiera dei comuni esseri umani che vivono e muoiono quasi senza lasciare tracce, minuscole increspature inosservate nel mare, a volte tempestoso, della storia. Vivace e spigliato, ben tradotto e di lettura assai piacevole, un piccolo classico di divulgazione storica. ( )
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"I counsel thee, shut not thy heart nor thy library" CHARLES LAMB
For if heuene be on this erthe . and ese to any soule, It is in cloistere or in scole . by many skilles I fynde; For in cloistre cometh no man . to chide ne to fiᲴte, But alle is buxomnesse there and bokes . to rede and to lerne, In scole there is scorne . but if a clerke wil lerne, And grete loue and lykynge . for eche of hem loueth other. - LANGLAND, Piers Plowman
Dedicatòria
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To my colleagues and students of Girton College, Cambridge, 1913-1920
Primeres paraules
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Social history sometimes suffers from the reproach that it is vague and general, unable to compete with the attractions of political history either for the student or for the general reader, because of its lack of outstanding personalities.
Preface.
Economic history, as we know it, is the newest of all the branches of history.
Chapter I. The peasant Bodo.
Citacions
Darreres paraules
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All these were honoured in their generation and were the glory of their times.
Every schoolboy knows that the Middle Ages arose on the ruins of the Roman Empire. The decline of Rome preceded and in some ways prepared the rise of the kingdoms and cultures which composed the medieval system.
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