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A Medieval Family - The Pastons of Fifteenth-Century England by Frances Gies; Joseph Gies
Category: History
The fascinating story of the fortunes of one medieval family over the course of a century, from bestselling historians Frances and Joseph Gies.The Pastons were members of the English gentry--a tiny group of roughly 1,000 households sandwiched between the ruling nobility and the peasants, and a rough ana ...Show more
Life in a Medieval Castle by Gies, Joseph, Gies, Frances
Category: History
Medieval history comes alive in Joseph and Frances Gies's Life in a Medieval Castle, used as a research resource by George R. R. Martin in creating the world of A Game of Thrones. Newly reissued for the first time in decades, Life in a Medieval Castle is the bestselling classic that has introduced coun ...Show more
Life in a Medieval City by Frances Gies
Category: History | Series: Medieval Life Ser.
From acclaimed historians Frances and Joseph Gies comes the reissue of their classic book on day-to-day life in medieval cities, which was a source for George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones series. Evoking every aspect of city life in the Middle Ages, Life in a Medieval City depicts in detail what it was ...Show more
Life in a Medieval Village by Frances Gies and Joesph Gies
Category: History | Series: Medieval Life Ser.
The reissue of Joseph and Frances Gies's classic bestseller on life in medieval villages. This new reissue of Life in a Medieval Village, by respected historians Joseph and Frances Gies, paints a lively, convincing portrait of rural people at work and at play in the Middle Ages. Focusing on the village ...Show more
Women in the Middle Ages by Joseph Gies; Frances Gies
Category: History | Series: Medieval Life Ser.
Reissued for the first time in decades, this ambitious work of Medieval scholarship by bestselling historians Frances and Joseph Gies traces the stories and fates of women in Medieval Europe over the course of a millennium. Medieval history is often written as a series of battles and territorial shifts. ...Show more
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