The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England

9 best books like The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England (Barbara A. Hanawalt): My Ántonia, 1066: The Year of the Conquest, Ask the Dust, William Marshal: The Flower of Chivalry, Fred & Edie, Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women, Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages, Feudal Society, Volume 1, Life in a Medieval Castle

My Ántonia

Author	Willa Cather
ISBN	1583485090

Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant life in the Nebraska heartland, with all its insistent bonds. Guiding the way are some of literature's most beguiling characters: the Russian brothers plagued by memories of a fateful sleigh ride,...

1066: The Year of the Conquest

Author

David Howarth

Alternate cover for ISBN 10: 0140058508 / ISBN 13: 9780140058505

Everyone knows 1066 as the date of the Norman invasion and conquest of England. But how many of us can place that event in the context of the entire dramatic year in which it took place? From the death of Edward the Confessor in early...

Ask the Dust

Author	John Fante
ISBN	0060822554

Ask the Dust is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young Italian-American writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Struggling to survive, he perseveres until, at last, his first novel is published. But the bright light of success is...

William Marshal: The Flower of Chivalry

Author

Georges Duby

Georges Duby, one of this century's great medieval historians, has brought to life with exceptional brilliance and imagination William Marshal, adviser to the Plantagents, knight extraordinaire, the flower of chivalry. A marvel of historical reconstruction, William Marshal is based on a biographical...

Fred & Edie

Author	Jill Dawson
ISBN	0340751673

In the winter of 1922 Edith Thompson and her younger lover, Freddy Bywaters, were found guilty of murdering Percy Thompson, Edith's boorish husband. The two lovers were executed in a whirl of publicity in 1923. The case caused a sensation, a crime of passion that gripped the nation's imagination and...

Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women

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...

Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages

Author

David Nirenberg

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...

Feudal Society, Volume 1

Author	Marc Bloch
ISBN	0226059782

What I particularly enjoy about Bloch's study is the sense of feudal Europe as dynamic. Institutions are changing while different areas are developing in different ways and influencing each other. Waves of immigrant Magyars, Vikings and Muslims are sweeping, sailing and galloping in from the edges...

Life in a Medieval Castle

Author

Joseph Gies

Focusing on Chepstow, an English castle that survived the turbulent Middle Ages with a relative lack of violence, the book offers an exquisite portrait of what day-to-day life was actually like during the era, and of the key role the castle played. The Gieses take us through the full cycle of a medieval...