Medieval People

The problem with owning an e-reader is that you don’t get that closure of money changing hands. You just click through Amazon, pressing the One Click Buy button with impunity while your credit card quietly sobs in your wallet. In an attempt to limit the damage on my bank account, I went through Amaz......more

When I picked up this book and looked at the title and the cover, I did not expect that I was really going to enjoy reading it; it looked like it was going to be really boring and badly written. I was surprised when I started reading and realized that the style of writing was unlike most history boo......more

Written at a time when, in the author's words, "historians imagined that kings and wars and parliaments and the jury system alone were history", Eileen Power's landmark study in social history sought to turn the focus instead upon the lives of relatively ordinary people. Drawing on a range of primar......more

Secilen kisilerin hayatlarindan damitilanlarin ortacagin gunluk yasamina dair nefis bilgiler vermesini saglayan kitabin cevirisi ve dipnotlari ozene yazilmis. Dil yalin, uslup akici. Alanla ilgili olmayan insanlar da sikilmadan, keyifle okuyabilirler.......more

This book is just okay. It's informative, and some of the stories are interesting. I like Power's conceit of keeping from the politics that everyone else usually focused on when writing histories and choosing to focus on the individual instead. I like her organizing principle of each chapter being a......more