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1900’s
Williams, Jay – Life in the Middle Ages (Random House, 1966) 155 pp. ToC
Ormrod, Mark – Life in the Middle Ages (Wayland, 1991) 45 pp. ToC
Pofahl, Jane – The Middle Ages: Everyday Life (1993) 34 pp. ToC
Reader’s Digest – Life in the Age of Chivalry in Journeys into the Past (Reader’s Digest Association, 1993) 160 pp. ToC
Cosman, Madeleine P. – The Medieval Baker’s Daughter: a Bilingual [Spanish & English] Adventure in Medieval Life with Costumes, Banners, Music, Food and a Mystery Play (Bard Hall, 1984) 100 pp. ToC
Thie, Greg – The Middle Ages in Living in the Past (Simon & Schuster, 1992) 45 pp.
Langley, Andrew – Medieval Life in Eyewitness Books (Knopf, 1996) 65 pp.
Rice, Jr., Earle – Life during the Middle Ages in The Way People Live (Lucent Books, 1998) 90 pp.
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2000’s
Kiddm Rees & Tudor – Heinemann History Scheme: Life in Medieval Times, bk. 1 (Heinemann, 2000) 190 pp. ToC
Guy, John – Medieval Life in Snapping Turtle Guides (Ticktock Media, 2003) 30 pp. ToC
Zarlengo, Dianne – Living in the Middle Ages in Exploring Cultural History (Greenhaven Press, 2004) 125 pp. ToC
Chrisp, Peter – Medieval Realms: Daily Life (London: Hodder Wayland, 2005) 48 pp. ToC
Grafton, Carol B. – Medieval Life & People CD-ROM & Book (Dover, 2007) 47 pp. no ToC
Nicholson, Susan – Medieval Life in Eyewitness Project Books (Dorling Kinfersley, 2009) 48 pp. ToC
ed. Hunt, Norman B. – Living in the Middle Ages (Chelsea House Publishers, 2009) 90 pp.
Park, Louise – Life in the Middle Ages in Ancient Civilizations (Power Kids Press, 2013) 35 pp. ToC
Allman, Toney – Life during Medieval Times in Living History (Reference Point Press, 2014) 90 pp. ToC
Allen, Kathy – The Horrible, Miserable Middle Ages: the Disgusting Details about Life during Medieval Times (Raintree, 2016) 30 pp. ToC
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Encyclopedia & Handbook
2000’s
ed. Salisbury, Joyce – The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Global Medieval Life & Culture, vol. 1 (Europe & Americas), 2 (Africa & Middle East), 3 (Asia & Oceana) (Greenwood, 2009) ToC
Cosman, Madeleine & Linda Jones – Handbook to Life in the Medieval World, vol. 1 (History, Society, Economy, Trade, Warfare), 2 (Philosophy, Religion, Mysticism, Magic, Medicine, Science, Technology, Art, Architecture), 3 (Literature, Music, Dance, Holidays, Festivals, Clothing, Costume, Textiles) (Facts on File, 2008) ToC
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Books
1800’s
Neander, Augustus – Memorials of Christian Life in the Early & Middle Ages (London: 1852) 545 pp. ToC
McLaughlin, Edward T. – Studies in Mediaeval Life & Literature (Putnam’s Sons, 1894) 200 pp. ToC
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1900’s
Tappan, E.M. – In Feudal Times: Social Life in the Middle Ages (London: Harrap, 1913) 355 pp.
Powicke, F.M.
Ways of Medieval Life & Thought
Pwoicke, Maurice – The Christian Life in the Middle Ages & Other Essays (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1935) 185 pp. ToC
eds. Mundy, Emery & Nelson – Essays in Medieval Life & Thought presented in Honor of Austin Patterson Evans (Columbia Univ. Press, 1955) 270 pp. ToC
Part 1 is “Religion & Heresy”; part 2 is “Science & Thought”; part 3 is “Institutional & Local History”.
Quennell, Marjorie & C.H.B. – Everyday Life in Roman & Anglo-Saxon Times, including Viking & Norman Times (Putnam’s Sons, 1959) 230 pp. ToC
D’Haucourt, Genevieve – Life in the Middle Ages (Walker & Co., 1963) 155 pp. ToC
Powicke, F.M. – Ways of Medieval Life & Thought: Essays & Addresses (Biblo & Tannen, 1964) 250 pp. ToC
Rowling, Marjorie – Everyday Life in Medieval Times (Batsford, 1968) 225 pp. ToC
Delort, Robert – Life in the Middle Ages tr. Robert Allen (1973) 340 pp. ToC
Winston, Clara & Richard – The Horizon Book of Daily Life in the Middle Ages (American Heritage Publishing Co., 1975) 125 pp. ToC
Bouchard, Constance B. – Life & Society in the West: Antiquity & the Middle Ages (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988) 375 pp. ToC
Cromarty, Dorothy – Everyday Life in Medieval Shrewsbury (Shropshire Books, 1991) 130 pp.
Goetz, Hans-Werner – Life in the Middle Ages: from the Seventh to the Thirteenth Century (1993) 320 pp. ToC
Kenyon, Sherrilyn – The Writer’s Guide to Everyday Life in the Middle Ages: the British Isles from 500 to 1500 (Writer’s Digest Books, 1995) 230 pp. ToC
Smith, Nigel – Life in Medieval Britain (Wayland, 1996) 45 pp. ToC
ed. Morgan, Gwendolyn – Medieval Ballads: Chivalry, Romance & Everyday Life: a Critical Anthology (Peter Lang, 1996) 230 pp. ToC
Singman, Jeffrey L. – Daily Life in Medieval Europe (Greenwood Press, 1999) 280 pp. ToC
Gies, Francis & Joseph – Daily Life in Medieval Times: a Vivid, Detailed account of birth, marriage and death; food, clothing and housing; love and labor in the Middle Ages (Black Dog & Leventhal, 1999) 400 pp. ToC
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2000’s
Newman, Paul B. – Daily Life in the Middle Ages (McFarland & Co., 2001) 290 pp. ToC
Nicolle, David – The History of Medieval Life (Barnes & Noble Books, 2002) 190 pp. ToC
Woolley, Linda – Medieval Life & Leisure in the Devonshire Hunting Tapestries (V&A Publications, 2007) 130 pp. ToC
Mitchell, Linda – Family Life in the Middle Ages (Greenwood Press, 2007) 250 pp. ToC
Hinds, Kathryn – Everyday Life in Medieval Europe (Marshall Cavendish, Benchmark, 2009) 285 pp.
Whittock, Martyn – A Brief History of Life in the Middle Ages (Running Press, 2009) 325 pp. ToC
Fossier, Robert – The Axe & the Oath: Ordinary Life in the Middle Ages (2010) 400 pp. ToC
Lacroix, Paul – Medieval Life: Manners, Customs & Dress during the Middle Ages (Arcturus, 2011) 585 pp. ToC
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General
Kamen, Henry – Early Modern European Society (Routledge, 2000) 280 pp. ToC
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Social & Economic
Pirenne, Henri – Economic & Social History of Medieval Europe (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1936) 250 pp. ToC
Epstein, Steven – An Economic & Social History of Later Medieval Europe, 1000-1500 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2009) 295 pp. ToC
Hodgett, Gerald – A Social & Economic History of Medieval Europe (Methuen, 1972) 250 pp.
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Economics
Articles
Cosentino, Salvatore – “Pillars of Empire: the Economic Role of the Large Islands of the Mediterranean from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages” in Dumbarton Oaks Papers 76 (2022), pp. 245–80
Zavagno, Luca – “At the Edge of Two Empires: the Economy of Cyprus between Late Antiquity & the Early Middle Ages (650s-800s CE)” in Dumbarton Oaks Papers 65/66 (2011), pp. 121–55
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Books
ed. Postan, M.M. – The Cambridge Economic History of Europe, vol. 1 (Agrarian Life in Middle Ages), 2 (Trade & Industry in Middle Ages), 3 (Economic Organization & Policies in Middle Ages) (Cambrdige Univ. Press, 1966) ToC 1, 2, 3
Toch, Michael – The Economic History of European Jews: Late Antiquity & Early Middle Ages (Brill, 2013) 370 pp.
Pounds, N.J.G. – An Economic History of Medieval Europe (Longman, 1974) 570 pp.
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Popular Culture
Campbell, Josie – Popular Culture in the Middle Ages (Bowling Green State Univ. Popular Press, 1986) 160 pp. ToC
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Primary Source Anthologies
1900’s
A Source Book of Mediæval History: Documents Illustrative of European life & Institutions from the German Invasion to the Renaissance (American Book Co., [c. 1907]) 510 pp. ToC
Coulton, G.G. – Life in the Middle Ages: Selected, Translated & Annotated 4 vols. in 1 (Macmillan, 1930) 1,070 pp. ToC
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Historical Fiction
For Youth
Allen, Agnes – Living in the Middle Ages (Johnston, 1951) 185 pp. ToC
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Specific Eras
450 to 1100
Book
ed. Hoyt, Robert – Life & Thought in the Early Middle Ages (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1967) 180 pp. ToC
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Civics
eds. Brelaz & Rose – Civic Identity & Civic Participation in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Brepols, 2021) 440 pp. ToC
McCormick, Michael – Eternal Victory: Triumphal Rulership in Late Antiquity, Byzantium & the Early Medieval West (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1986) 470 pp.
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900 to 1100
Agus, Irving – Urban-Civilization In Pre-Crusade Europe, vol. 1, 2 (Yeshiva Univ. Press, 1968) 425 pp. ToC 1, 2
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1100’s
Books
ed. Jane, L.C. – The Chronicle of Joceline of Brakelond, Monk of St. Edmundsbury: a Picture of Monastic & Social Life in the 12th Century (Chatto & Windus, 1931) 290 pp. ToC
Holmes, Jr., Urban – Daily Living in the Twelfth Century: Based on the Observations of Alexander Neckam in London & Paris (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1952) 360 pp. ToC
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1200’s
Davis, William S. – Life on a Medieval Barony: a Picture of a Typical Feudal Community in the Thirteenth Century (Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1923) 425 pp. ToC
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Late Middle Ages
Books
Kleinberg, Aviad M. – Prophets in their own Country: Living Saints & the making of Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1992) 195 pp.
Britnell, Richard – Daily Life in the Late Middle Ages (Sutton Publishing, 1998) 245 pp. ToC
Swabey, Ffiona – Medieval Gentlewoman: Life in a Gentry Household in the Later Middle Ages (Routledge, 1999) 225 pp. ToC
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Europe
Social & Economic
Thompson, James W. – Economic & Social History of Europe in the Later Middle Ages (1300-1530) (Ungar, 1931) 550 pp. ToC
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Economic
Kellenbenz, Hermann – The Rise of the European Economy: an Economic History of Continental Europe from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1976) 360 pp. ToC
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England
Book
Dyer, Christopher – Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages: Social Change in England, c. 1200-1520 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1989) 310 pp. ToC
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Cities & Villages
Laughton, Jane – Life in a Late Medieval City: Chester 1275-1520 (2008) 265 pp. ToC
Harris, Mary – Life In An Old English Town [Middle Ages to 1898] (Sonnenschein, 1898) 385 pp. ToC
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Private Life
ed. Virgoe, Roger – Private Life in the Fifteenth Century: Illustrated Letters of the Paston Family [in England] (Widenfeld & Nicolson, 1989) 280 pp. ToC
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France & Netherlands
Huizinga, J. – The Waning of the Middle Ages: a Study of the Forms of Life, Thought & Art in France & the Netherlands in the Fourteenth & Fifteenth Centuries (Penguin, 1968) 345 pp. ToC
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Spain
Scholberg, Kenneth – Spanish Life in the Late Middle Ages: Selected & Translated (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1966) 175 pp. ToC
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Portugal
de Oliveira Marques, A.H. – Daily Life in Portugal in the Late Middle Ages (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1971) 370 pp. ToC
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Special Topics
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People
Families, Women, Children
Disfigurement
Sanitation
Towns
Castles, Chivalry, Knights, Military, War
Education, Colleges, Universities, Libraries, Books, Language
Science & Medicine
Work
Cooking
Clothing & Crafts
Medicine
Hunting
Peasants
Countryside
Travelers & Pilgrims
Law
Prisons
Medicine
Hunting
Peasants
Countryside
Church, Religion, Saints, Monastics
Soldiers
Crusades
Earthquakes
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People
Friendly
Whittock, Martyn – Conflict, People & Power: Medieval Britain 1066-1500 (Hodder & Stoughton, 2000) 70 pp. ToC
Putney, Richard H. – Medieval Art, Medieval People: the Cloister Gallery of the Toledo Museum of Art (Toledo Museum of Art, 2002) 60 pp.
Grafton, Carol B. – Medieval Life & People CD-ROM & Book (Dover, 2007) 47 pp. no ToC
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Books
Swain, Barbara – Fools & Folly during the Middle Ages & the Renaissance (Columbia Univ. Press, 1932) 240 pp.
Power, Eileen – Medieval People (Univ. Paperbacks, 1966) 225 pp. ToC
Sheeran, George – Medieval Yorkshire Towns: People, Buildings & Spaces (1998) 220 pp. ToC
Hamilton, Sarah – Church & People in the Medieval West, 900-1200 (Routledge, 2013) 425 pp. ToC
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Families, Women & Children
Articles
McLaughlin, Edward T. – Studies in Mediaeval Life & Literature (Putnam’s Sons, 1894)
“Childhood in Medieval Literature”, pp. 123-52
“A Mediaeval Woman”, pp. 152-83
Wren, Jr., C. Michael – “Among Your Company at Home: Family Discipleship in Late Ancient & Medieval Households” in Trained in the Fear of God: Family Ministry in Theological, Historical & Practical Perspective, eds. Randy Stinson & Timothy Paul Jones (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2011)
Horn, Cornelia – “The Lives & Literary Roles of Children in Advancing Conversion to Christianity: Hagiography from the Caucasus in Late Antiquity & the Middle Ages” in Church History, vol. 76, no. 2 (June 2007), pp. 262-97
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Short & Friendly
Machajewski, Sarah – A Kid’s Life during the Middle Ages in How Kids Lived (2015) 27 pp.
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Books
Labarge, Margaret W. – A Small Sound of the Trumpet: Women in Medieval Life (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1990) 280 pp. ToC
Swabey, Ffiona – Medieval Gentlewoman: Life in a Gentry Household in the Later Middle Ages (Routledge, 1999) 225 pp. ToC
Orme, Nicholas – Medieval Children (Yale University Press, 2001) 390 pp. ToC
Baumgarten, Elisheva
Mothers & Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe (Princeton Univ. Press, 2004) 285 pp. ToC
Biblical Women & Jewish Daily Life in the Middle Ages in Jewish Culture & Contexts (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2022) 288 pp.
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Castles & Chivalry
Friendly
Hinds, Kathryn – Life in the Middle Ages: the Castle (Benchmark Books, 2001) 80 pp. ToC
Black, Irma S. – Castle, Abbey & Town: How People Lived in the Middle Ages (Holiday House, 1963) 100 pp. ToC
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Books
Stuart, Dorothy M. – Chivalry & Social Life in the Middle Ages (Harrap, 1927) 190 pp. ToC
Reader’s Digest – Life in the Age of Chivalry in Journeys into the Past (Reader’s Digest Association, 1993) 160 pp. ToC
ed. Morgan, Gwendolyn – Medieval Ballads: Chivalry, Romance & Everyday Life: a Critical Anthology (Peter Lang, 1996) 230 pp. ToC
eds. Benson & Leyerle – Chivalric Literature: Essays on Relations between Literature & Life in the Later Middle Ages in Studies in Medieval Culture, XIV (Medieval Institute Publications, 1980) 190 pp. ToC
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Disfigurement
Skinner, Patricia – Living with Disfigurement in Early Medieval Europe (Palgrave, 2017) 270 pp. ToC
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Sanitation
Article
Thorndyke, Lynn – “Sanitation, Baths & Street-Cleaning in the Middle Ages & Renaissance” in Speculum, vol. 3, no. 2 (Apr., 1928), pp. 192-203
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Towns
Article
Ashley, W.J. – “The Beginnings of Town Life in the Middle Ages” in The Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 10 (July, 1896) 50 pp.
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Friendly
Black, Irma S. – Castle, Abbey & Town: How People Lived in the Middle Ages (Holiday House, 1963) 100 pp. ToC
Unstead, R.J. – Living in a Medieval Village (A & C Black, 1971) 40 pp. ToC
Sancha, Sheila – The Luttrell Village: Country Life in the Middle Ages (Crowell, 1982) 60 pp.
Anderson, Mercedes – Feudalism & Village Life in the Middle Ages (World Almanac Library, 2006) 50 pp.
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Books
Coulton, G.C. – The Medieval Village
Platt, Colin – The English Medieval Town
Benson, Edwin – Life in a Medieval City: Illustrated by York in the XVth Century (London: SPCK, 1920) 90 pp. ToC
Davis, William S. – Life on a Medieval Barony: a Picture of a Typical Feudal Community in the Thirteenth Century (Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1923) 425 pp. ToC
Troedsson, Carl B. – The Growth of the Western City during the Middle Ages (Forlag, 1959) 130 pp.
Raftis, J. Ambrose – Warboys: Two Hundred Years in the Life of an English Mediaeval Village (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1974) 275 pp. ToC
ed. DeWindt, Edwin B. – The Salt of Common Life: Individuality & Choice in the Medieval Town, Countryside & Church (Medieval Institute Publications, 1995) 565 pp. ToC
Sheeran, George – Medieval Yorkshire Towns: People, Buildings & Spaces (1998) 220 pp. ToC
Gies, Frances & Joseph – Life in a Medieval City (Folio Society, 2002) 270 pp. ToC
Laughton, Jane – Life in a Late Medieval City: Chester 1275-1520 (2008) 265 pp. ToC
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Castles
Friendly
Kallay, Zelma – Kings, Queens, Castles & Crusades: Life in the Middle Ages (Good Apple, 1997) 92 pp.
Kallen, Stuart – Life during the Crusades in Living History (Reference Point Press, 2014) 90 pp. ToC
Rice, Jr., Earle – Life during the Crusades (Lucent Books, 1998) 90 pp. ToC
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Books
Davis, William S. – Life on a Medieval Barony: a Picture of a Typical Feudal Community in the Thirteenth Century (Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1923) 425 pp. ToC
Manenti, Clemente & Markus Bollen – Castles in Italy: the Medieval Life of Noble Families (Koneman, 2001) 330 pp. ToC
Gies, Joseph & Francis – Life in a Medieval Castle (London: Folio Society, 2002) 265 pp.
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Knights
Short & Friendly
Hopkins, Andrea – A Day in the Life of a Knight (Orpheus, 2006) 32 pp. ToC
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Military & War
Article
Kaegi, Jr., Walter – “Some Thoughts on Byzantine Military Strategy” in The Hellenic Studies Lecture (Hellenic College Press, 1983) 17 pp.
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Books
Lacroix, Paul – Military & Religious Life in the Middle Ages & the Renaissance (Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1964) 570 pp. ToC
Verbruggen, J. F. – The Art of Warfare in Western Europe during the Middle Ages: from the Eighth Century to 1340 (North-Holland Publishing Co., 1977) 340 pp.
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Education, Colleges & Universities
Articles
Powicke, F.M. – chs. 8-11 in Ways of Medieval Life & Thought: Essays & Addresses (Biblo & Tannen, 1964) ToC
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Books
Graves, Frank P. – A History of Education during the Middle Ages & the Transition to Modern Times (Macmillan, 1910) 340 pp. ToC
Seybolt, Robert Francis – The Manuale Scholarium; an Original Account of Life in the Mediaeval University (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1921) 125 pp. ToC
Rait, Robert – Life in the Medieval University in The Cambridge Manuals of Science & Literature (1931) 170 pp.
Powicke, Maurice – The Christian Life in the Middle Ages & Other Essays (Clarendon Press, 1935) 175 pp. ToC
Thorndike, Lynn – University Records & Life in the Middle Ages (Columbia Univ. Press, 1949) 485 pp.
Harrison, Frederick – Life in a Medieval College: the Story of the Vicars-Choral of York Minister (London: John Murray, 1952) 355 pp.
Cobban, Alan – English University Life in the Middle Ages (UCL Press, 1999) 270 pp. ToC
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Libraries, Books & Language
Books
Putnam, George H. – Books & their Makers during the Middle Ages; a Study of the Conditions of the Production & Distribution of Literature from the fall of the Roman Empire to the close of the Seventeenth Century, vol. 1 (476-1600), 2 (1500-1709) (Putnam, 1896) 490 pp. ToC 1, 2
Savage, Ernest – Old English Libraries: the Making, Collection & Use of Books during the Middle Ages (London: Methuen, 1911) 415 pp. ToC
Amsler, Mark – Etymology & Grammatical Discourse in Late Antiquity & the Early Middle Ages (John Benjamins Publishing Co., 1989) 290 pp.
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Science & Medicine
Short & Friendly
Strom, Laura L. – Dr. Medieval: Medicine in the Middle Ages (Children’s Press, 2007) 30 pp. ToC
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Book
eds. Mundy, Emery & Nelson – pt. 2, “Science & Thought” ToC in Essays in Medieval Life & Thought presented in Honor of Austin Patterson Evans (Columbia Univ. Press, 1955), pp. 91-153
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Work, Trades & Fairs
Cunningham, William – The Growth of English Industry & Commerce during the Early & Middle Ages (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1890) 630 pp. ToC
James, Susan H. – Domestic Commerce in England during the Middle Ages, with Special Reference to Fairs & Markets MA thesis (Boston Univ. Libraries, 1930) 140 pp. ToC
Husa, VaÌclav – Traditional Crafts & Skills: Life & Work in Mediaeval & Renaissance Times (London: Paul Hamlyn, 1967) 225 pp. ToC
Knoop, Douglas & G.P. Jones – The Medieval Mason: an Economic History of English Stone Building in the Later Middle Ages & Early Modern Times (Manchester Univ. Press, 1967) 280 pp. ToC
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Travelers & Pilgrims
Books
Jusserand, J.J. – English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages (XIVth Century) 5th ed. (T. Fisher & Unwin, 1897) 450 pp. ToC
Heath, Sidney – Pilgrim Life in the Middle Ages (Houghton Mifflin, 1912) 360 pp. ToC
Rowling, Marjorie – Everyday Life of Medieval Travellers (Batsford, 1971) 205 pp. ToC
Kleinschmidt, Harald – People on the Move: Attitudes toward & Perceptions of Migration in Medieval & Modern Europe (Praeger, 2003) 300 pp. ToC
Constable, Olivia – Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean World: Lodging, Trade & Travel in Late Antiquity & the Middle Ages (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003) 430 pp. ToC
Clancy-Smith, Julia – Exemplary Women & Sacred Journeys: Women & Gender in Judaism, Christianity & Islam from Late Antiquity to the Eve of Modernity (American Historical Association & the Commitee on Women Historians, 2006) 55 pp.
Newton, A.P. – Travel & Travellers in the Middle Ages
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Law
Vinogradoff, Paul – Roman Law in Mediaeval Europe (Harper & Brothers, 1909) 145 pp. ToC
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Prisons
Geltner, G. – The Medieval Prison: a Social History (Princeton Univ. Press, 2014) 215 pp. ToC
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Medicine
Fort, George – Medical Economy during the Middle Ages: a Contribution to the History of European Morals, from the Time of the Roman Empire to the Close of the Fourteenth Century (Bouton, 1883) 500 pp. ToC
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Hunting
Cummins, John – The Hound & the Hawk: the Art of Medieval Hunting
Woolley, Linda – Medieval Life & Leisure in the Devonshire Hunting Tapestries (V&A Publications, 2007) 130 pp. ToC
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Peasants
Short & Friendly
Beckett, Wendy – The Duke & the Peasant: Life in the Middle Ages: the Calendar Pictures in the Duc de Berry’s Très Riches Heures in Adventures in Art (Prestel, 1997) 28 pp. no ToC
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Books
Helmbrecht & Heinrich – Peasant Life in Old German Epics [in the 1200’s] tr. Clair Bell (Columbia Univ. Press, 1931) 205 pp. ToC
Fossier, Robert – Peasants in the Medieval West [England, Germany, Italy and especially France] (Basil Blackwell, 1988) 220 pp. ToC
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Countryside
Friendly
Davies, Penelope – Country Life in the Middle Ages (1972) 90 pp. ToC
Hinds, Kathryn – Life in the Middle Ages: the Countryside (Benchmark Books, 2001) 75 pp. ToC
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Books
Davis, William S. – Life on a Medieval Barony: a Picture of a Typical Feudal Community in the Thirteenth Century (Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1923) 425 pp. ToC
Robo, Etienne – Medieval Farnham: Everyday Life in an Episcopal Manor (Farnham: Langham, 1935) 358 pp. ToC
Duby, Georges – Rural Economy & Country Life in the Medieval West [France, Germany & Netherlands] (London: Edward Arnold, 1968) 620 pp. ToC
ed. DeWindt, Edwin B. – The Salt of Common Life: Individuality & Choice in the Medieval Town, Countryside & Church (Medieval Institute Publications, 1995) 565 pp. ToC
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Images
Bodleian Library – English Rural Life in the Middle Ages (Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1965) no ToC
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Religion & Church
Articles
eds. Mundy, Emery & Nelson – pt. 1, “Religion & Heresy” in Essays in Medieval Life & Thought presented in Honor of Austin Patterson Evans (Columbia Univ. Press, 1955), pp. 3-91
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Friendly
Black, Irma S. – Castle, Abbey & Town: How People Lived in the Middle Ages (Holiday House, 1963) 100 pp. ToC
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Books
Gasquet, Abbot – Parish Life in Medieval England (Methuen & Co., 1906) 350 pp. ToC
Powicke, Maurice – The Christian Life in the Middle Ages & Other Essays (Clarendon Press, 1935) 175 pp. ToC
Lacroix, Paul – Military & Religious Life in the Middle Ages & the Renaissance (Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1964) 570 pp. ToC
ed. DeWindt, Edwin B. – The Salt of Common Life: Individuality & Choice in the Medieval Town, Countryside & Church (Medieval Institute Publications, 1995) 565 pp. ToC
Geary, Patrick – Living with the Dead [Saints, Relics, etc.] in the Middle Ages (Cornell Univ. Press, 1994) 280 pp. ToC
Hamilton, Sarah – Church & People in the Medieval West, 900-1200 (Routledge, 2013) 425 pp. ToC
eds. Ritari, Stenger & van Andringa – Being Pagan, being Christian in Late Antiquity & Early Middle Ages (HUP, 2023) 325 pp. ToC
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Monastics & Saints
Books
Gasquet, Cardinal – Monastic Life in the Middle Ages… (London, Bell & Sons, 1922) 340 pp. ToC
ed. Jane, L.C. – The Chronicle of Joceline of Brakelond, Monk of St. Edmundsbury: a Picture of Monastic & Social Life in the 12th Century (Chatto & Windus, 1931) 290 pp. ToC
Crossley, F.H. – The English Abbey: its Life & Work in the Middle Ages (London: Batsford, 1935) 260 pp. ToC
Dickinson, John C. – Monastic Life in Medieval England (London: Black, 1961) 205 pp. ToC
Kleinberg, Aviad M. – Prophets in their own Country: Living Saints & the making of Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1992) 195 pp.
Brooke, Christopher – The Age of the Cloister: the Story of Monastic Life in the Middle Ages (Hidden Spring, 2003) 365 pp. ToC
Crone & Hindmarch – Living & Dying at Auldhame, East Lothian [Scotland]: the Excavation of an Anglican Monastic Settlement & Medieval Parish Church (Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 2016) 250 pp. ToC
eds. Howard-Johnston & Hayward – The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity & the Middle Ages: Essays on the Contribution of Peter Brown (Oxford Univ. Press, 1999) 310 pp.
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Cooking
Book
Albala, Ken – Cooking in Europe, 1250-1650 (Greenwood)
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Clothing & Crafts
Howard & Crossley – English Church Woodwork; a Study in Craftsmanship during the Mediaeval Period, A.D. 1250-1550 (London: Batsford, 1919) 415 pp. ToC
Hartley, Dorothy – Mediæval Costume & Life: a Review of their Social aspects arranged under various classes and workers with instructions for making numerous types of dress (Batsford, 1931) 185 pp. ToC
eds. Mundy, Emery & Nelson – pt. 3, “Institutional & Local History” ToC in Essays in Medieval Life & Thought presented in Honor of Austin Patterson Evans (Columbia Univ. Press, 1955), pp. 153-255
Husa, VaÌclav – Traditional Crafts & Skills: Life & Work in Mediaeval & Renaissance Times (London: Paul Hamlyn, 1967) 225 pp. ToC
Martin, Rebecca – Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages (Cleveland Museum of Art, 1985) 65 pp. ToC
MacGregor, Mainman & Rogers – Craft, Industry & Everyday Life: Bone, Antler, Ivory & Horn from Anglo-Scandinavian & Medieval York (Council for British Archaeology, 1999) 205 pp. ToC
Morris, Carole – Craft, Industry & Everyday Life: Wood & Woodworking in Anglo-Scandinavian & Medieval York (Council for British Archaeology, 2000) 400 pp. ToC
Lacroix, Paul – Medieval Life: Manners, Customs & Dress during the Middle Ages (Arcturus, 2011) 585 pp. ToC
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Boots & Shoes
Hall, J. Sparkes – The Book of the Feet: a History of Boots & Shoes: with illustrations of the fashions of the Egyptians, Hebrews, Persians, Greeks & Romans, and the prevailing style throughout Europe, during the Middle Ages down to the present period… (William H. Graham, 1847) 220 pp. ToC
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Soldiers
Rogers, Clifford – The Middle Ages in Soldiers’ Lives through History (Greenwood Press)
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Crusades
Life during the Crusades
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Friendly
Kallay, Zelma – Kings, Queens, Castles & Crusades: Life in the Middle Ages (Good Apple, 1997) 92 pp.
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Earthquakes
Book
eds. Compatangelo-Soussignan, Diosono & Le Blay – Living with Seismic Phenomena in the Mediterranean & Beyond between Antiquity & the Middle Ages: Proceedings of Cascia (25-26 October, 2019) & Le Mans (2-3 June, 2021) Conferences (Archaeopress Archaeology, 2022) 425 pp. ToC
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Jews
Books
Abrahams, Israel – Jewish Life in the Middle Ages (Macmillan, 1896) 480 pp. ToC
Zunz, Leopold – The Sufferings of the Jews during the Middle Ages (Bloch, 1907) 95 pp. no ToC
Neuman, Abraham – The Jews in Spain: their Social, Political & Cultural Life during the Middle Ages, vol. 1 (Political & Economic), 2 (Social & Cultural) (Octagon Books, 1948) 330 pp.
Fischel, Walter – Jews in the Economic & Political Life of Medieval Islam (Ktav, 1969) 165 pp. ToC
Toaff, Ariel – Love, Work & Death: Jewish Life in Medieval Umbria [Italy] (London: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1996) 300 pp. ToC
Cohen, Jeremy – Living Letters of the Law: Ideas of the Jew in Medieval Christianity (Univ. of California Press, 1999) 460 pp.
Rubenstein, Jeffrey – The Culture of the Babylonian Talmud (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2003) 245 pp. ToC
Roth, Norman – Daily Life of the Jews in the Middle Ages (Greenwood Press, 2005) 255 pp. ToC
Elukin, Jonathan – Living Together; Living Apart: Rethinking Jewish-Christian Relations in the Middle Ages (Princeton Univ. Press, 2007) 205 pp.
Chazan, Robert – Reassessing Jewish Life in Medieval Europe (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010) 295 pp. ToC
Kattan Gribetz, Sarit – Conceptions of Time & Rhythms of Daily Life in Rabbinic Literature, 200-600 C.E. PhD diss. (Princeton University, 2013) 300 pp.
eds. Ehrlich, Carl & Sara Horowitz – Jewish Studies on Premodern Periods Pre (De Gruyter, 2023) 335 pp. ToC
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Economics
Toch, Michael – The Economic History of European Jews: Late Antiquity & Early Middle Ages (Brill, 2013) 370 pp.
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Arabs
Everyday Life for Arabs in the Middle Ages
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Islam
Everyday Life in Islam in the Middle Ages
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Barbarians
.
Order of
Vikings
Franks
Normans
Goths
Vandals
Mongols
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Vikings
Short & Friendly
Martell, Hazel M. – Everyday Life in Viking Times (1994) 35 pp. ToC
Green, Jen – Gods & Goddesses in the Daily Life of the Vikings (Hodder Wayland, 2002) 40 pp. ToC
MacDonald, Fiona – Viking Raiders: Viking Longships, Explorers & Warriors, Everyday Life, Gods & Heros (Tick Tock Media, 2005) 24 pp. ToC
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Books
Quennell, Marjorie & C.H.B. – Everyday Life in Roman & Anglo-Saxon Times, including Viking & Norman Times (Putnam’s Sons, 1959) 230 pp. ToC
Simpson, Jacqueline – Everyday Life in the Viking Age (Dorset Press, 1967) 200 pp. ToC
Wolf, Kristen – Daily Life of the Vikings (Greenwood Press)
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Franks & France
Books
Hueffer, Francis – The Troubadours: a History of Provencal Life & Literature in the Middle Ages (London: Chatto & Windus, 1878) 410 pp. ToC
Evans, Joan – Life in Medeival France (London: Phaidon Press, 1957) 275 pp. ToC
Huizinga, J. – The Waning of the Middle Ages: a Study of the Forms of Life, Thought & Art in France & the Netherlands in the Fourteenth & Fifteenth Centuries (Penguin, 1968) 345 pp. ToC
Riche, Pierre – Daily Life in the World of Charlemagne [AD 748-814] (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1978) 345 pp. ToC
Todd, Malcom – Everyday Life of the Barbarians: Goths, Franks & Vandals (Dorset Press, 1988) 190 pp. ToC
Baldwin, John – Aristocratic Life in Medieval France: the Romances of Jean Renart & Gerbert de Montreuil, 1190-1230 (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2000) 380 pp.
Butt, John – Daily Life in the Age of Charlemagne (Greenwood Press, 2008) 210 pp. Blurb
Livingstone, Amy – Out of Love for My Kin: Aristocratic Family Life in the Lands of the Loire, 1000-1200 (Cornell Univ. Press, 2015) 290 pp. ToC
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Historical Fiction
Wilford, Florence – The King of a Day, or Glimpses of French Life in the Fifteenth Century (London: Masters, 1868) 255 pp. no ToC
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City of Paris
Short & Friendly
Hoban, Sarah – Daily Life in Ancient & Modern Paris (Runestone Press, 2001) 65 pp. ToC
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Books
Gabriel, Astrik L. – Student Life in Ave Maria College: Mediaeval Paris: History & Chartulary of the College (Notre Dame, 1955) 440 pp.
Farmer, Sharon – Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris: Gender, Ideology & the Daily Lives of the Poor (Cornell Univ. Press, 2002) 215 pp. ToC
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Peasants & Country Life
Duby, Georges – Rural Economy & Country Life in the Medieval West [France, Germany & Netherlands] (London: Edward Arnold, 1968) 620 pp. ToC
Fossier, Robert – Peasants in the Medieval West [England, Germany, Italy and especially France] (Basil Blackwell, 1988) 220 pp. ToC
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Normans
Article
Hodgetts, James F. – Lecture 1, “The Normans” ToC in The English in the Middle Ages: from the Norman Usurpation to the Days of the Stuarts; their mode of life, dress, arms, occupations and amusements, as illustrated by the mediaeval remains in the British Museum (London: Whiting, 1885), pp. 1-37
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Books
Quennell, Marjorie & C.H.B. – Everyday Life in Roman & Anglo-Saxon Times, including Viking & Norman Times (Putnam’s Sons, 1959) 230 pp. ToC
Bates, Houts & D’Angelo – People, Texts & Artefacts: Cultural Transmission in the Medieval Norman Worlds (London: Instituted of Historical Research, 2018) 285 pp.
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Peasants
Duby, Georges – Rural Economy & Country Life in the Medieval West [France, Germany & Netherlands] (London: Edward Arnold, 1968) 620 pp. ToC
Fossier, Robert – Peasants in the Medieval West [England, Germany, Italy and especially France] (Basil Blackwell, 1988) 220 pp. ToC
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Goths
Todd, Malcom – Everyday Life of the Barbarians: Goths, Franks & Vandals (Dorset Press, 1988) 190 pp. ToC
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Vandals
Todd, Malcom – Everyday Life of the Barbarians: Goths, Franks & Vandals (Dorset Press, 1988) 190 pp. ToC
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Mongols
Lane, George – Daily Life in the Mongol Empire (Greenwood Press, 2006) 335 pp. ToC
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Europe
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Order of
Northern Europe
Britain
. England
. Scotland
. Ireland
Netherlands
Germany
Spain
Italy
.
Northern Europe
Book
Sitwell, Sacheverell – The Gothick North: a Study of Mediaeval Life, Art & Thought (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1929) 180 pp. ToC
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Britain
Short & Friendly
Butterfield, Moira – Tracking Down Medieval Life in Britain (Franklin Watts, 2010) 34 pp. ToC
Ganeri, Anita – Life in Medieval Britain: a Child’s History of Britain (Raintree, 2014) 35 pp. ToC
Butterfield, Moira – Discover the Anglo-Saxons: Everyday Life (Watts: 2016) 34 pp. ToC
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Books
Hodgetts, James F. – The English in the Middle Ages: from the Norman Usurpation to the Days of the Stuarts; their mode of life, dress, arms, occupations and amusements, as illustrated by the mediaeval remains in the British Museum (London: Whiting, 1885) 230 pp. ToC
Windle, Bertram – Life in Early Britain, being an Account of the Early Inhabitants of this Island & the Memorials which they have left behind them (London: David Nutt, 1897) 255 pp. ToC
Coulton, G.G. – Social Life in Britain from the [Norman] Conquest [in 1066] to the Reformation (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1918) 560 pp. ToC
Salzman, L.F. – English Life in the Middle Ages (Oxford Univ. Press, 1950) 275 pp. ToC
Anderson, M.D. – Misericords: Medieval Life in English Woodcarving (Penguin, 1954) 80 pp. no ToC
Quennell, Marjorie & C.H.B. – Everyday Life in Roman & Anglo-Saxon Times, including Viking & Norman Times (Putnam’s Sons, 1959) 230 pp. ToC
Quennell, Marjorie & C.H.B. – Everyday Life in Anglo-Saxon Times (Carousel Books, 1972) 140 pp. ToC
Dyer, Christopher – Making a Living in the Middle Ages: the People of Britain 850-1520 in The New Economic History of Britain (Yale Univ. Press, 2002) 420 pp. ToC
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Pictures
Harrison & Wells – Picture Source Book for Social History: From the Conquest to the War of the Roses [1066-1485] (Allen & Unwin)
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1300’s
Book
Chadwick, D. – Social Life in the Days of Piers Plowman [1360 to 1390] (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1922) 145 pp. ToC
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Travelers
Jusserand, J.J. – English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages (XIVth Century) 5th ed. (T. Fisher & Unwin, 1897) 450 pp. ToC
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1400’s
ed. Jones, M.D. – The Paston Letters: a Selection Illustrating English Social Life in the Fifteenth Century (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1922) 85 pp. ToC
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1450 to 1500
Kendall, Paul M. – The Yorkist Age: Daily Life during the Wars of the Roses [1455-1485] (Doubleday, 1965) 545 pp. ToC
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City of London
Books
Richardson, John – London & its People: a Social History from Medieval Times to the Present Day (Barrie & Jenkins, 1995) 360 pp. ToC
Egan, Geoff – The Medieval Household: Daily Living c. 1150 – c. 1450 in Medieval Finds from Excavations in London, no. 6 (London: Stationery Office, 1998) 355 pp. ToC
Toht, Betony & David – Daily Life in Ancient & Modern London (Runestone Press, 2000) 65 pp. ToC
Mount, Toni – Everyday Life in Medieval Longon: from the Anglo-Saxons to the Tudors (Amberley, 2015) 330 pp. ToC
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Social History
Porter, Roy – London: a Social History (Harvard Univ. Press, 1995) 440 pp. ToC
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Families
Short & Friendly
Hosking, Tessa – Family Life in Medieval Britain (Wayland, 1994) 30 pp. ToC
Hicks, Peter – Family Life in Saxon Britain (Wayland, 1994) 35 pp. ToC
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Women
Hill, Georgiana – Women in English Life from Mediaeval to Modern Times, vol. 1 (Medieval, Renaissance, 1700’s), 2 (1700’s-1800’s) (London: Bentley & Son, 1896) 370 pp. ToC 1, 2
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Sports
Brailsford, Dennis – British Sport: a Social History (Lutterworth Press, 1992) 155 pp. ToC
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Monastics
ed. Jane, L.C. – The Chronicle of Joceline of Brakelond, Monk of St. Edmundsbury: a Picture of Monastic & Social Life in the 12th Century (Chatto & Windus, 1931) 290 pp. ToC
Sayers, Jane – Life in the Medieval Monastery in Focus on History (Longmans, 1969) 45 pp.
Kerr, Julie – Life in the Medieval Cloister (Continuum, 2009) 265 pp. ToC
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England
Short & Friendly
Willoughby, Rupert & Shelley Grimwood – Life in Medieval England in The Pitkin Guide (Stroud: The History Press, 2012) 25 pp. no ToC
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Books
1800’s
Wright, Thomas – A History of Domestic Manners & Sentiments in England During the Middle Ages (London: Chapman & Hall, 1862) 510 pp. ToC
Hodgetts, J. Frederick – The English in the Middle Ages; from the Norman usurpation to the days of the Stuarts. Their mode of life, dress, arms, occupations, and amusements, as illustrated in the British Museum (London: Whiting & Co., 1885) 230 pp. ToC
Creighton, Louise – Social History of England (London: Rivingtons, 1887) 150 pp. ToC
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1900’s
Synge, M.B. – A Short History of Social Life in England (Hodder & Stoughton, 1922) 445 pp. ToC
Hall, H.R. Wilton – Social Life in England through the Centuries (Blackie & Son, 1927) 250 pp. ToC
Bagley, J.J. – Life in Medieval England (Putnam’s Sons, 1960) 185 pp. ToC
ed. Barraclough, Geoggrey – Social Life in Early England (Greenwood Press, 1980) 275 pp. ToC
Briggs, Asa – A Social History of England (Penguin, 1985) 310 pp. ToC
Dyer, Christopher – Everyday Life in Medieval England (Hambledon Press, 1993) 350 pp.
Challis, M.G. – Life in Medieval England as portrayed on Church Misericords & Bench Ends (Teamband, 1998) 67 pp. ToC
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2000’s
Crawford, Sally – Daily Life in Anglo-Saxon England (Greenwood World Publishing, 2009) 275 pp.
Singman, Jeffrey & Will McLean – Daily Life in Chaucer’s England (Greenwood Press)
Polack, Gillian & Katrin Kania – The Middle Ages Unlocked: a Guide to Life in Medieval England, 1050-1300 (Amberley, 2015) 390 pp. ToC
.
Social History
Books
Trevelyan, G.M. – English Social History: New Illustrate Edition in 1 vol. (London: Book Club Associates, 1978) 570 pp. ToC
Hibbert, Christopher – The English: a Social History 1066-1945 (Guild, 1987) 845 pp. ToC
.
Anthology of Primary Sources
Morgan, R.B. – Readings in English Social History from Pre-Roman Days to A.D. 1887 in 1 vol. (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1923) 685 pp. ToC
.
Late Medieval Era
Abram, A. – English Life & Manners in the Later Middle Ages (London: Routledge & Sons, 1913) 445 pp. ToC
Powell, Chilton – English Domestic Relations: 1487-1653: a Study of Matrimony & Family Life in Theory & Practice as Revealed by the Literature, Law & History of the Period (Columbia Univ. Press, 1917) 285 pp. ToC
Dyer, Christopher – Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages: Social Change in England, c. 1200-1520 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1989) 310 pp. ToC
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1400’s
Benson, Edwin – Life in a Medieval City: Illustrated by York in the XVth Century (London: SPCK, 1920) 90 pp. ToC
Waters, Gwen – King Richard’s Gloucester [England, 1460-1485]: Life in a Medieval Town (Gloucester Reprints, 1983) 90 pp. ToC
.
City of Cambridge
Book
Jones, M.E. Monckton – Life in Old Cambridge (Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons, 1920) 155 pp. ToC
.
Towns
Salusbury-Jones, G.T. – Street Life in Medieval England (Harvester Press, 1975) 210 pp. ToC
Waters, Gwen – King Richard’s Gloucester [England, 1460-1485]: Life in a Medieval Town (Gloucester Reprints, 1983) 90 pp. ToC
.
Sex
Whole of History
Bloch, Ivan – Sexual Life in England Past & Present tr. William H. Forstern (London: ARCO Publications, 1958) 675 pp. ToC
.
Monastics
Dickinson, John C. – Monastic Life in Medieval England (London: Black, 1961) 205 pp. ToC
.
Scotland
Whole of History
Rogers, Charles – Social Life in Scotland from Early to Recent Times, vol. 1, 2, 3 (Edinburgh: Paterson, 1884) 420 pp. ToC 1, 2, 3
.
Books
Innes, C. – Sketches of Early Scotch History & Social Progress: Church Organization, the University, Home Life (Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglass, 1861) 660 pp. ToC
Crone & Hindmarch – Living & Dying at Auldhame, East Lothian [Scotland]: the Excavation of an Anglican Monastic Settlement & Medieval Parish Church (Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 2016) 250 pp. ToC
.
Popular Culture
MacKinnon, James – Culture in Early Scotland (London: Williams & Norgate, 1892) 245 pp. ToC
.
Ireland
Article
Hore, Herbert Francis – “Life in Old Ireland [Medieval up to 1500’s]” in Ulster Journal of Archaeology, vol. 7 (1859), pp. 267-77
.
Book
Reilly, Eileen – Dirt, Dwellings & Culture: Living Conditions in Early Medieval Dublin (Archaeopress Archaeology, 2024) 140 pp. ToC
.
.
Netherlands
History
Davies, C.M.- The History of Holland & the Dutch Nation from the beginning of the tenth century to the end of the eighteenth: including an account of the municipal institutions, commercial pursuits and social habits of the people; the rise and progress of the Protestant reformation in Holland; the intestine dissensions, foreign wars, etc., vol. 1 (913-1572), 2 (1573-1660), 3 (1660-1794) (London: Willis, Grat Plaza, Covent Garden, 1851) ToC 1, 2, 3
.
1300’s to 1400’s
Huizinga, J. – The Waning of the Middle Ages: a Study of the Forms of Life, Thought & Art in France & the Netherlands in the Fourteenth & Fifteenth Centuries (Penguin, 1968) 345 pp. ToC
.
Rural Life
Duby, Georges – Rural Economy & Country Life in the Medieval West [France, Germany & Netherlands] (London: Edward Arnold, 1968) 620 pp. ToC
.
.
Germany
500 to 1000
Fiore, Jordan – Germanic Government, Religion & Family Life in Beowulf (1946) 130 pp. ToC
.
Peasants
Helmbrecht & Heinrich – Peasant Life in Old German Epics [in the 1200’s] tr. Clair Bell (Columbia Univ. Press, 1931) 205 pp. ToC
.
Slavery
Wergeland, Agnes – Slavery in Germanic Society during the Middle Ages (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1916) 170 pp. ToC
.
Spain
Book
ed. Keller, John – Daily Life Depicted in the Cantigas de Santa Maria [during 1252-1284] (Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1998) 130 pp.
.
Anthology of Primary Sources
Scholberg, Kenneth – Spanish Life in the Late Middle Ages: Selected & Translated (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1966) 175 pp. ToC
.
Commerce & Industry
Ardzrooni, Leon – “Commerce & Industry in Spain During Ancient & Mediaeval Times” in The Journal of Political Economy (1913), pp. 432-53
.
Jews
Neuman, Abraham – The Jews in Spain: their Social, Political & Cultural Life during the Middle Ages, vol. 1 (Political & Economic), 2 (Social & Cultural) (Octagon Books, 1948) 330 pp.
.
Italy
Books
Cognasso, Francesco – Life & Culture in Piedmont, from the Middle Ages to the Present Day (Turin: RIV-SKF, Officine di Villar Perosa, S.P.A., 1970) 460 pp. no ToC
Origo, Iris – The Merchant of Prato: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City (Penguin Books, 2017) 390 pp. ToC
.
City of Rome
Whole History
Barghusen, Joan – Daily Life in Ancient & Modern Rome (Runestone Press, 1999) 60 pp.
.
City of Florence
Outlines
Montgomery, Helen B. – Life in Old Florence (Univ. of the State of New York, 1895) 38 pp. no ToC
.
Politics
Heers, Jacques – Parties & Political Life in the Medieval West in Europe in the Middle Ages: Selected Studies, vol. 7 (North-Holland Publishing Co., 1977) 320 pp. ToC
.
Castles
Manenti, Clemente & Markus Bollen – Castles in Italy: the Medieval Life of Noble Families (Koneman, 2001) 330 pp. ToC
.
Women
eds. Scaraffia & Zarri – Women & Faith: Catholic Religious Life in Italy from Late Antiquity to the Present (Harvard Univ. Press, 1999) 420 pp. ToC
.
Jews
Toaff, Ariel – Love, Work & Death: Jewish Life in Medieval Umbria (London: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1996) 300 pp. ToC
.
Middle East
.
Order of
.
.
Byzantium
Books
Rice, Tamara – Everyday Life in Byzantium (Dorset Press, 1967) 240 pp. ToC
ed. Papanikola-Bakirtzi – Byzantine Hours: Everyday Life in Byzantium (Athens, 2002) 585 pp. ToC
Rautman, Marcus – Daily Life in the Byzantine Empire (Greenwood Press, 2006) 375 pp. ToC
.
Greece
Buraselis, Kostas – [The Greek Island of] Kos between Hellenism & Rome: Studies on the Political, Institutional & Social History of Kos from ca. the Middle Second Century B.C. until Late Antiquity (American Philosophical Society, 2000) 185 pp.
.
Mediterranean Islands
Articles
Cosentino, Salvatore – “Pillars of Empire: the Economic Role of the Large Islands of the Mediterranean from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages” in Dumbarton Oaks Papers 76 (2022), pp. 245–80
Zavagno, Luca – “At the Edge of Two Empires: the Economy of Cyprus between Late Antiquity & the Early Middle Ages (650s-800s CE)” in Dumbarton Oaks Papers 65/66 (2011), pp. 121–55
.
Book
Stewart, Basil – My Experiences of Cyprus; being an account of the People, Mediæval Cities & Castles, Antiquities & History of the Island of Cyprus… (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1908) 360 pp. ToC
.
City of Constantinople
Baker, B. Granville – The Walls of Constantinople (London: John Milne, 1910) 170 pp. ToC
.
City of Jerusalem
Short & Friendly
Slavik, Diane – Daily Life in Ancient & Modern Jerusalem in Cities through Time (Runestone Press, 2001) 62 pp. ToC
.
Book
Rossoff, Dovid – Where Heaven touches Earth: Jewish Life in Jerusalem from Medieval Times to the Present rev. ed. (Jerusalem: Guardian Press, 1998) 660 pp.
.
Israel
Civics & Cities
McCormick, Michael – Eternal Victory: Triumphal Rulership in Late Antiquity, Byzantium & the Early Medieval West (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1986) 470 pp.
Zavagno, Luca – The Byzantine City from Heraclius to the Fourth Crusade, 610-1204: Urban Life after Antiquity (Palgrave: 2021) 210 pp.
.
War
Kaegi, Jr., Walter – “Some Thoughts on Byzantine Military Strategy” in The Hellenic Studies Lecture (Hellenic College Press, 1983) 17 pp.
.
.
Egypt
City of Cairo
Shoshan, Boaz – Popular Culture in Medieval Cairo (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002) 160 pp.
.
Arabs
Guthrie, Shirley – Arab Social Life in the Middle Ages: an Illustrated Study (Saqui Books, 1995) 245 pp. ToC
.
.
Islam
Muhammad
al-Wahab b. Nasir al-Turayri, Abd – A Day In The Life Of Muhammad: a Study in the Prophet’s Daily Programme tr. Adil Salahi (n.p., n.d.) 98 pp. ToC
.
Short & Friendly
Nardo, Don – Daily Life in the Islamic Golden Age (Raintree, 2015) 50 pp.
.
Article
Hoshimovich, Kodirov – “Abul Qasim Qushayri and Cultural Life in the Khalifat [in Northeastern Iran, AD 900 to 1100]” in Central Journal of Literature, Philosophy & Culture, vol. 4, issue 4 (2023)
.
Books
Guthrie, Shirley – Arab Social Life in the Middle Ages: an Illustrated Study (Saqui Books, 1995) 245 pp. ToC
Lindsay, James E. – Daily Life in the Medieval Islamic World (Greenwood Press, 2005) 320 pp. ToC
.
Social History
Rosenthal, Franz – Muslim Intellectual & Social History: a Collection of Essays [AD 750-1500] (Variorum, 1990) 330 pp. ToC
.
Jews
Fischel, Walter – Jews in the Economic & Political Life of Medieval Islam (Ktav, 1969) 165 pp. ToC
.
Education
Hussain, Amjad – A Social History of Education in the Muslim World: from the Prophetic Era to Ottoman Times [AD 610-1924] (Ta-Ha Publishers, 2013) 270 pp. ToC
.
Medieval India
Books
Sen, Asit Kumar – People & Politics in Early Mediaeval India (1206-1398 A.D.) (Indian Book Distributing Co., 1963) 180 pp. ToC
Sharma, Brij N. – Social Life in Northern India [A.D. 600 – 1000] (Munshiram Manoharlal, 1966) 400 pp. ToC
Kamat, Jyotsna – Social Life in Medival Karnataka (New Delhi: Abhinav Publications, 1980) 165 pp. ToC
Guha, Sumit – Environment & Ethnicity in India from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century (Cambridge Univ. Press)
Vasu, Nagendra Nath – Social History Kamarupa [Antiquity to AD 1400], vol. 1, 2 (Calcutta: Author, 1922) ToC 1, 2
.
Court & Political Life
Ali, Daud – Courtly Culture & Political Life in Early Medieval India (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004) 315 pp. ToC
Peabody, Norbert – Hindu Kingship & Polity in Pre-Colonial India (Cambridge Univ. Press)
.
Money
Deyell, John S. – Living without Silver: the Monetary History of Early Medieval North India (Delhi: Oxford Univ. Press, 1990) 420 pp. ToC
.
Asia
.
Order of
Russia
Western Asia
China
Japan
.
Russia
Books
Grekov, B.D. – The Culture of Kiev Rus [800’s to 1300] (Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1947) 160 pp. ToC
Elnett, Elaine – Historic Origin & Social Development of Family Life in Russia [c. 860 – 1921] (Columbia Univ. Press, 1926) 160 pp. ToC
.
Social History
Mirsky, D.S. – Russia: a Social History (London: Cresset Press, 1931) 350 pp. ToC
.
City of Moscow
Toht, Patricia – Daily Life in Ancient [AD 1147+] & Modern Moscow (Runestone Press, 2000) 60 pp. ToC
.
Western Asia
Armenia
Franklin, Kate – Everyday Cosmopolitanisms: Living the Silk Road in Medieval Armenia (Univ. of California Press, 2021) 190 pp.
.
China
Books
de Pee, Christian – Urban Life & Intellectual Crisis in Middle-Period China, 800-1100 CE (Amsterdam Univ. Press, 2022) 280 pp. ToC
eds. Johnson, Nathan & Rawski – Popular Culture in Late Imperial China [1368-1912] (Univ. of California Press, 1985)
ed. Ebrey & Watson – Kinship Organization in Late Imperial China, 1000-1940 (Univ. of California Press, 1986)
.
Social History
Sun, E-Tu Zen & John de Frances – Chinese Social History: Translations of Selected Studies [c. 1523 – 1911] (NY: Octagon, 1966) 425 pp. ToC
.
Popular Culture
eds. Johnson, Nathan & Rawski – Popular Culture in Late Imperial China (Univ. of California Press, 1985) 445 pp.
.
Families
ed. Ebrey, Patricia – Family & Property in Sung China [1127-1279]: Yüan Tsʼai’s [c. 1140 – c. 1195] Precepts for Social Life (Princeton Univ. Press, 1984) 380 pp.
.
Death Rituals
eds. Watson & Rawski – Death Ritual in Late Imperial & Modern China (Univ. of California Press, 1988)
.
Japan
Deal, William – Handbook to Life in Medieval & Early Modern Japan (Facts on File, 2006) 430 pp. ToC
.
Medieval Africa
Western Africa
Book
McKissack, Patricia & Fredrick – The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali & Songhay: Life in Medieval Africa (Holt, 1995) 150 pp.
.
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Americas
.
Dominican Republic
Samson, Alice V.M. – Renewing the House: Trajectories of Social Life in the Yucayeque (Community) of El Cabo, Higüey, Dominican Republic, AD 800 to 1504 (1977; Sidestone Press, 2010) 360 pp.
.
New Zealand
Best, Elsdon – The Maori as he was: a Brief Account of Maori Life as it was in Pre-European Days [AD 1200-1700] (1924; R.E. Owen, 1952) 310 pp. ToC
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