Dimensions
198 x 260 x 25mm
Scenes from medieval life often appear familiar, intensely human and recognisable, yet also distant. They depict the everyday concerns of people who loved, worried, feasted, starved and prayed across a vast area from Scandinavia to Constantinople, from Ireland to Sicily, and from Spain to Jerusalem, for nearly a thousand years. Many recorded their fears, jokes and anxieties, especially with their health and pains, as well as their delights.
In this miscellany, Judith Herrin has selected exerpts from poems, chronicles, wills, romances, epitaphs, letters and legal regulations, all translated into modern English, to offer a rich and delightful mosaic of life in medieval times. Accompanied by stunning, full-colour reproductions of exquisit manuscript illustrations from the sixth to the fifteenth century, 'A Medieval Miscellany' reflects a long, slow process of change between the ancient and modern worlds.
