The Axe and the Oath: Ordinary Life in the Middle Ages

by RobertFossier (Author), LydiaG.Cochrane (Translator)

• New

  Hardcover
  2010

  $35.72

  Presenting a picture of daily life in the Middle Ages as it was experienced by ordinary people, this book describes how these vulnerable people confronted life, from birth to death, including childhood, marriage, work, sex, food, illness, religion, and the natural world. It describes how they encountered the basic material facts of their lives.