Author: Newman, Paul B.
Paperback; Illustrations
224 pages
Published: February 2001
McFarland & Company, Inc.
ISBN: 0786408979

Although life in the Middle Ages was not as comfortable and safe as it is for most people in industrialized countries today, the term Dark Ages is highly misleading. The era was not so primitive and crude as depictions in film and literature would suggest. Even during the worst years of the centuries immediately following the fall of Rome, the legacy of that civilization survived. This book covers diet, cooking, housing, building, clothing, hygiene, games and other pastimes, fighting and healing in medieval times. The reader will find numerous misperceptions corrected. The book also includes a comprehensive bibliography and a listing of collections of medieval art and artifacts and related sites across the United States and Canada so that readers in North America can see for thWriting for a general audience rather than for academics, historian Newman (his affiliation is not stated) offers a compendium of information on how people of the Middle Ages ate, cooked, built, dressed, cleaned, used their leisure, fought, and practiced medicine. He provides accessibly written essa