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ISBNs | 978-5-389-21927-4 |
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Life in a Medieval City is a classic bestseller by renowned historians Francis and Joseph Gies, which depicts the world of the Middle Ages through the everyday life of the French city of Troyes, the historic center of Champagne. 1250 year. This time is the peak of medieval civilization, when the former Roman forts, such as Troyes, strengthened in the centuries-old defense against ruthless invaders and developed the economy, turned into the centers of the intersection of busy trade routes, wealthy European cities, which had yet to face the devastating breath of cruel wars. the following centuries and the epidemic of the Black Death. The authors reconstruct the way of life of a rich and poor family, a housewife and her servants, a merchant and an artisan, a doctor and a schoolboy, along the way talking about the customs and traditions of that period that have long sunk into oblivion. Watching how life goes on in a medieval city, where, it seems to the last page, you yourself seem to have lived for more than one year, you open a window into an amazing, complex and colorful world, which, even from the point of view of all the achievements of the XNUMXst century, cannot be called “backward”. Middle Ages".