The majority of people in Western Europe in the Middle Ages were peasants. Children will enjoy discovering how a manor was run, the distribution of power on a manor, and what peasants’s homes and daily lives were like.
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Life in a Medieval Manor - sumptuously illustrated and described
Nov 16 2007
By Jonathan Appleseed
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Format:Paperback
These books in The Medieval World series, published by Crabtree Publishing Company, serve myriad purposes. For the intended reading age, 9-12, they present medieval life--very confusing to our contemporary conventions--in a perfectly understandable fashion. For that age range, I could not recommend these books higher.
Yet they also serve a purpose that the publisher may not have intended, and that is for the casual researcher of medieval life.
There are accessible texts for the casual researcher, this is true, but none of them--that I've seen, that is, and to their detriment--contain simple explanations and diagrams. For example, in this book, there is a two-page full-color drawing of a medieval manor, and it gives a better bird's eye view than any scholarly text I've come across.
Every page in the book, for that matter, is presented in full color, the pages colored to resemble parchment, and the illustrations done to wonderfully evoke the period.
I've read a number of books on the Middle Ages, but until I came across this one, I never really had a good image of a medieval manor: where the "peasants" lived, where the church was situated, where the mill was and how it worked (yes, there's a diagram on how the mill works, and what the components of the mill are called), who performed some of the essential duties of the Lord of the Manor (who really couldn't be troubled) and many others.
If you're a writer, and you're looking for simple information on what medieval life looked like, this series of books can't be beat.
Yet they also serve a purpose that the publisher may not have intended, and that is for the casual researcher of medieval life.
There are accessible texts for the casual researcher, this is true, but none of them--that I've seen, that is, and to their detriment--contain simple explanations and diagrams. For example, in this book, there is a two-page full-color drawing of a medieval manor, and it gives a better bird's eye view than any scholarly text I've come across.
Every page in the book, for that matter, is presented in full color, the pages colored to resemble parchment, and the illustrations done to wonderfully evoke the period.
I've read a number of books on the Middle Ages, but until I came across this one, I never really had a good image of a medieval manor: where the "peasants" lived, where the church was situated, where the mill was and how it worked (yes, there's a diagram on how the mill works, and what the components of the mill are called), who performed some of the essential duties of the Lord of the Manor (who really couldn't be troubled) and many others.
If you're a writer, and you're looking for simple information on what medieval life looked like, this series of books can't be beat.
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Life on a Medieval Manor
Dec 29 2010
By Lori
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This is a marvelous book for upper elementary school children. The text is well done, and the illustrations are taken from iconic paintings and prints of that period. I would recommend this book for teachers looking for quality resources in their classrooms and students with an interest in this time in history.
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LIFE ON A MIDEVIAL MANOR
Dec 4 2011
By FRED MITCHELL
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Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
pLEASE SEE MY REVIEW REGARDING TOWN AND COUNTRY LIFE IN MIDEVIAL TIMES... SAME APPLIES TO THIS BOOK AS WELL. FREDERICK DALE MITCHELL
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