{"product_id":"a-medieval-life-cecilia-penifader-and-the-world-of-english-peasants-before-the-plague-9780812224696","title":"A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader and the World of English Peasants Before the Plague","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Medieval Life\u003c\/i\u003e offers a biography of one woman, a portrait of her world, and an introduction to historical method. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Medieval Life\u003c\/i\u003e offers a biography of one woman, a portrait of her world, and an introduction to historical method. Written in a clear and accessible style, it reworks a well-loved book to provide an entirely new resource for students, teachers, and general readers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike Cecilia Penifader, most people in the Middle Ages were peasants, humble people living socially below the knights, bishops, and kings who figure so large in history books. Judith M. Bennett shows that peasants, too, made history. She explores how peasant lives were closely entangled with the lives and interests of those more privileged, looking at manors as well as villages; parishes, faith, and ritual practices; royal taxes and justice; economy and trade; famine and disease. By moving out from Cecilia's perspective, the book explores the ties and tensions that bound all medieval people--poor as well as rich--into a medieval society. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book also provides a primer on the fact-finding and interpretative debates that are at the heart of the historian's craft. Each chapter includes a new section on how medievalists today are studying such topics as puberty, morals, courtship, and climate change. The illustrations, taken from the famous Luttrell Psalter, provide a coherent, rich, and interpretatively complex visual program. And the final chapter explores some of the different ways in which historians, for better and for worse, have understood medieval society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Judith M. Bennett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/20\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Middle Ages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.6lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812224696\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2nd Edition\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42709406318729,"sku":"9780812224696","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_91522a9f-2a3e-432d-9fec-46982cf96672.jpg?v=1719515647","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/a-medieval-life-cecilia-penifader-and-the-world-of-english-peasants-before-the-plague-9780812224696","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}