Everyday life in the era of Louis Saint. Faral E.

The book of the French historian Edmond Faral is dedicated to the daily life of France at a time when this country was in the zenith of its glory and power-to the reign of King Louis IX Saint (1227-1270). This era is considered a “golden age” in the history of the French kingdom, which came out in the first place among European states: the French king was the most powerful rulers in Western Europe, French culture and art blossomed with extraordinary power, all France was covered with Gothic churches. As a matter of fact, it is precisely this period in French history that it is customary to call the "classic Middle Ages."

The author set himself the task of showing how people of different classes lived during this political, economic and cultural flourishing: how the knights fought in war and in tournaments, how the townspeople earned their lives and had fun during the city festivities, What they all dressed, what furniture surrounded them in castles and burgher mansions. The researcher offers us a real section of a medieval society, illuminating those aspects of life that often rarely pop up on the pages of medieval manuscripts. His book is rightfully considered one of the best works of the genre of the history of everyday life.