Jones Malcolm
Jones Malcolm - The Secret Middle Ages Discovering The Real Medieval World - Paperback
Jones Malcolm - The Secret Middle Ages Discovering The Real Medieval World - Paperback
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Description: The Secret Middle Ages is a controversial and completely fresh view of the medieval world through its rare and amazing artefacts. Using the wealth of medieval art much of it unseen or ignored by museums and art historians Malcolm Jones paints a compelling picture of the visual environment of the great mass of ordinary people between 1200 and 1500. The picture that emerges is of a civilisation that is both like and unlike our own one that teems with the richness of life and its contradictions. Unlike most studies of the medieval world it does not concern itself greatly with religious or aristocratic art but with the products of popular and folk art. Here we find beliefs and traditions rendered memorable by the vivid creative imagination and strong visual culture of the middle ages. Love hatred crime and punishment proverbs heaven on earth husband - beating - all feature in the jewellery tableware illustrations carvings and textiles of the period. This book offers a major reassessment of the high medieval period and as such is not only important to specialist but has much appeal to the general reader. It is essential reading for medievalists and those interested in the history of language and customs. It provides a brilliant and evocative picture of medieval Europe where people spent their time wearing their hearts on their sleeves snapping sausages and getting bees in their bonnets. As Malcolm Jones writes gems and precious metals may dazzle the eye but a pewter brooch though it may look tawdry may be of more significance and can tell us more about the middle ages than a cofferful of royal jewels.
Title: The Secret Middle Ages Discovering The Real Medieval World
Author(s): Jones Malcolm
Publisher: The History Press Ltd
Barcode: 9781803998008
Publication Date: 7/15/2025
Category: Sociology: Customs & Traditions
Description: The Secret Middle Ages is a controversial and completely fresh view of the medieval world through its rare and amazing artefacts. Using the wealth of medieval art much of it unseen or ignored by museums and art historians Malcolm Jones paints a compelling picture of the visual environment of the great mass of ordinary people between 1200 and 1500. The picture that emerges is of a civilisation that is both like and unlike our own one that teems with the richness of life and its contradictions. Unlike most studies of the medieval world it does not concern itself greatly with religious or aristocratic art but with the products of popular and folk art. Here we find beliefs and traditions rendered memorable by the vivid creative imagination and strong visual culture of the middle ages. Love hatred crime and punishment proverbs heaven on earth husband - beating - all feature in the jewellery tableware illustrations carvings and textiles of the period. This book offers a major reassessment of the high medieval period and as such is not only important to specialist but has much appeal to the general reader. It is essential reading for medievalists and those interested in the history of language and customs. It provides a brilliant and evocative picture of medieval Europe where people spent their time wearing their hearts on their sleeves snapping sausages and getting bees in their bonnets. As Malcolm Jones writes gems and precious metals may dazzle the eye but a pewter brooch though it may look tawdry may be of more significance and can tell us more about the middle ages than a cofferful of royal jewels.
Title: The Secret Middle Ages Discovering The Real Medieval World
Author(s): Jones Malcolm
Publisher: The History Press Ltd
Barcode: 9781803998008
Publication Date: 7/15/2025
Category: Sociology: Customs & Traditions
