Life in a medieval city. GIS J., GIS F.

“Life in the medieval city” is a classic bestseller from famous historians Francis and Joseph Gis, in which the world of the Middle Ages is presented on the example of the daily life of the French city of Trua, the historical center of Shampani. 1250. This time is the peak of the heyday of medieval civilization, when the former Roman forts, such as True, having overthrew the centuries -old defense against ruthless invaders and developing the economy, turned into centers of the intersection of lively trade routes, rich European cities, which had yet to encounter the exhausting breathing of cruel wars the next centuries and epidemics of black death.

The authors reconstruct the life of the life of a rich and poor family, housewives and her servants, merchant and artisan, doctor and schoolboy, simultaneously telling about the customs and traditions of that period who had long gone into oblivion. Watching how life flows in a medieval city, where it seems to the last page, and it seems to have lived for more than one year - you open the window into an amazing, difficultly arranged and colorful world, which, even from the point of view of all the achievements of the 21st century, can not be called “backwards” Middle Ages ".