Writing 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, dress
Dangerous and difficult for both mother and child-what was the birth experience like in the Middle Ages? Dependent, in part, on social class, what pastimes did children enjoy? What games did they pla
Though most people in the European Middle Ages lived their entire lives within a few miles, says US medieval historian Newman, there were many people who traveled widely, and though most goods were pr