Feudal Society, Volume 1
10 best books like Feudal Society, Volume 1 (Marc Bloch): Orientalism, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller, The Three Orders: Feudal Society Imagined, Six of Swords, Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women, The Hard Life, The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England, The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization, Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages, The Making of the Middle Ages
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic.
In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism"...
The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
| Author | Carlo Ginzburg |
| ISBN | 0801843871 |
The Cheese and the Worms is a study of the popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through the eyes of one man, a miller brought to trial during the Inquisition. Carlo Ginzburg uses the trial records of Domenico Scandella, a miller also known as Menocchio, to show how one person responded to the...
| Author | Georges Duby |
| ISBN | 0226167720 |
In The Three Orders, prominent Annales historian Georges Duby offers a tripartite construct of medieval French society, a construct which depicts men separating themselves hierarchically into those who pray, those who fight, and those who work. He considers how this medieval theory of orders originated,...
| Author | Carole Nelson Douglas |
| ISBN | 0345298365 |
I bought this book in the summer of '83 when I first moved to Cleveland. I didn't know anyone & high school was still 3 months away from starting. My mom felt bad that I was alone so she & my dad tried to find ways to keep me from moping. Along with the chores of moving into a new house, they took me to the...
| Author | Caroline Walker Bynum |
| ISBN | 0520063295 |
In the period between 1200 and 1500 in western Europe, a number of religious women gained widespread veneration and even canonization as saints for their extraordinary devotion to the Christian eucharist, supernatural multiplications of food and drink, and miracles of bodily manipulation, including...
| Author | Flann O'Brien |
| ISBN | 1564781410 |
Subtitled An Exegesis of Squalor, The Hard Life is a sober farce from a master of Irish comic fiction. Set in Dublin at the turn of the century, the novel does involve squalor illness, alcoholism, unemployment, bodily functions, crime, illicit sex but also investigates such diverse topics as Church...
| Author | Barbara A. Hanawalt |
| ISBN | 0195045645 |
Barbara A. Hanawalt's richly detailed account offers an intimate view of everyday life in Medieval England that seems at once surprisingly familiar and yet at odds with what many experts have told us. She argues that the biological needs served by the family do not change and that the ways fourteenth-...
| Author | Bryan Ward-Perkins |
| ISBN | 0192807285 |
Was the fall of Rome a great catastrophe that cast the West into darkness for centuries to come? Or, as scholars argue today, was there no crisis at all, but simply a peaceful blending of barbarians into Roman culture, an essentially positive transformation?
In The Fall of Rome, eminent historian...
In the wake of modern genocide, we tend to think of violence against minorities as a sign of intolerance, or, even worse, a prelude to extermination. Violence in the Middle Ages, however, functioned differently, according to David Nirenberg. In this provocative book, he focuses on specific attacks...
| Author | R.W. Southern |
| ISBN | 0300002300 |
An acknolwedged classic of european history, R.W. Southern's "The Middle Ages" focuses on the period between 900 and 1200 A.D. His geopgraphic focus is mostly northern france, with some asides to Germany, Italy, Southern France and England. His main thesis is the idea that this period saw the emergence...
