The Writer Guide to Everyday Life in the Middle Ages The British Isles From 5001500 eBook Sherrilyn Kenyon
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General history of life in the Middle Ages covering how people in the British Isles lived from 500-1500. From the peasants meals to the royal banquet table, clothing styles and fabric worn by both men and women, medical and dental care treatments, family life and women's roles, festivals, music, titles, knights, castles, wenches, saints, The Church, weapons and war. Written by New York Times #1 Bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon as a guide to building the worlds for her many bestselling historical novels.
About the Author Sherrilyn Kenyon is the recipient of the prestigious Georgia College Alumni Achievement Award. She was Literary guest of honor at the 2010 national Sci-Fi and Fantasy Convention, Dragon*Con. Sherrilyn Kenyon has had seventeen #1 Bestsellers in three years in four different genres, is published in over 100 countries, and has over 30 million copies in print.
The Writer Guide to Everyday Life in the Middle Ages The British Isles From 5001500 eBook Sherrilyn Kenyon
As others have stated, the info is the kind of stuff you can get off of google. I'm always confused about titles--how do you properly address an earl, for example--and so eagerly looked forward to the section on titles. It simply listed the titles from king on down. Nothing more. The section on food and dinner protocol was helpful. The rest was really rather an insult to even the most beginning of researchers.Product details
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The Writer Guide to Everyday Life in the Middle Ages The British Isles From 5001500 eBook Sherrilyn Kenyon Reviews
I found this to be a concise, informative reference book for the Middle Ages and a good introduction to Middle Age life for anyone simply interested in a glimpse of the time.
I'm not a writer but I found the information very interesting. I read the whole book and it was very entertaining.
I bought this book and have been using as a quick reference while reading other texts; sort of how one might use a dictionary. I have to say this is one of the easier to use reference guides I own. And contrary to the critics, the information provided is accurate, even if the photos are of real people who wear glasses.
Some of the books I read that this guide is a handy reference for include Chaucer, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Edmund Spenser... Authors how were actually alive during the middle ages. This guide is very helpful in understanding the specific items and ideas those long ago bards were talking about.
On my first or second reading I would have given book a negative review. I think that was because of the awe-inspiring title "The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in the Middle Ages The British Isles from 500 to 1500". That in itself was enough, an almost impossible premise for any book to live up to, particularly one that is only 232 pages (counting the index). But the back of the book adds more hype, suggesting it will provide all the facts you need to write about food, clothing, medicine, royalty, heraldry, vocabulary and war in a period that spanned 1000 years and saw massive social and technological change.
By that standard it fails. This book will only get you started. But by that second definition, a "starting point", it's excellent. I have ultimately come to love it and regularly use on it as my first source. At the end of each chapter is a bibliography of books that go into a lot more depth on each topic. And the chapters, while short, are well organized and for the most part decently written, giving a good introduction to the topics mentioned earlier as well as a brief overview of kings of the middle ages (both in the British Isles and nearby places such as the Scandinavian countries and France) and invaluable discussions of the different ethnic groups that populated this place and time, with chapters on Anglo-Saxons, Britons (Welsh), and Vikings, among others.
Yes, you can find most of this stuff on the Internet. But who wants to surf through dead links and long-winded URLs trying to find out who was king of Scotland in a particular year? Besides, some of the places I go to write don't always have internet access. You have to have a few books.
Among the book's faults are the pictures, black-and-white photos apparently of friends dressed for re-enactments. Vikings didn't really wear those stereotypical horned helmets, yet she includes a picture of a strapping blonde Viking wearing one. Another shows a young man wearing a thirteenth-century cape and some hip modern glasses groovy, but probably not accurate.
Faults aside, this is still a great starting point for any historical fiction writer's library. If I could only keep five of the pile of books I've accumulated while writing a story set in 1033 England, this would be one. I do wish Kenyon had expanded it to another hundred pages and provided more detail (particularly regarding how things changed in specific centuries and maps). I would have especially liked to see more specifics in the lists of words that end many chapters. Sometimes they appear to be French, for example, but there's no indication where or exactly when they were likely to have been used.
Before I even thought about writing for myself but loved learning all the details of the history I loved and never know how they did the normal things (and apparently asking how they use the restrooms is "disruptive". This book give the details of exactly what life was like. And the Writer's Guides and amazing in the simplistic style yet thoroughly informative. It's a great idea even if you don't care to write but really want to know. But then you wait and read my books and I ill try to get in most all the good stuff at least. Keep your eyes open for books by Lady Emily Hunt in the next couple of years. If you write me mentioning this review I might just have to send you a special copy. Just have patience and you will be glad that you did.
This book is a great guide to the ordinary customs of the middle ages that are compiled by the author's diligently thorough research on the vast time period. The way of life in the medieval time seems to be arcane or backward in our modern standard, but they lived in what they imagined as "modern" time and way. Therefore, we should not impose our fallacy of the human ego that makes us look back at the past and claim our superiority thereto. As discoursed in this essay on the book, the medieval was not altogether a grim and gloom dystopia ruled by religious didacticism and scientific ignorance.
I really don't like leaving negative reviews, but I had the original hardback in college. It had very nice photos detailing the stages of donning armor at various periods of medieval history. Very useful information. I couldn't find my book, so I decided to grab the book. It's new and updated and only $1.99. That seemed like a very good deal. Except, NOT ONE SINGLE PHOTO. I don't know if that is also true of the new hardback, but this made the version WORTHLESS for me. The rest of the book is common knowledge. I could find the rest of the information reading articles on Wikipedia for free. I didn't need them. I wanted those photos. If the hardback has the photos, and the simply left them out, then that is a complete rip off. What a waste. I never felt like I threw away $1.99 before, but in this case, I actually do. I should have spent the time searching online to see if I could find useful photos there. That was my mistake, thinking I could save time purchasing the version of a book that I had trusted throughout college.
As others have stated, the info is the kind of stuff you can get off of google. I'm always confused about titles--how do you properly address an earl, for example--and so eagerly looked forward to the section on titles. It simply listed the titles from king on down. Nothing more. The section on food and dinner protocol was helpful. The rest was really rather an insult to even the most beginning of researchers.
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