History of Everyday Things
4 total works
Examines daily life in the Middle Ages, covering such aspects as chivalry, the great cathedrals, medieval technology, country life, and pilgrimages.
Traces the history of the Roman Empire and the Dark Ages which followed through a description of common objects, tools, clothes, dwellings, food, and day-to-day activities of the people in both the cities and in the country.
Traces the early history of civilization from the first toolmakers of four million years ago through the Greeks of the fifth century B.C.
Presents, in text and illustrations, a range of people whose way of life reveals various aspects of the society developing in Europe and America from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries.