Joseph Gies
Birth date: October 08, 1916
Died: April 13, 2006
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Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages Interesting (if somewhat outdated) book giving a very broad overview of technology in the middle-ages. Not very technical, which is a pity.
Not the most exciting nor groundbreaking read, but a pleasantly thorough background of things I probably should have already known. It worked very well as an audiobook; the Gies tend to repeat their points, which I think I would have found frustrating in print but as background reading was perfect.
Great look at women in the Middle Ages. The book works because of its two section. The first is a general introduction and the second takes a look at women of various classes, usually focusing on one or two women, sometimes more.Readable.
I read a lot of fantasy novels, many of which are set in a gloomy created world not unlike the European middle ages. This book was my attempt to see whether the truly dismal picture painted therein has any truth in it.The book discusses the life of women in the thousand years or so from around 600AD...
I've come to prefer social history to "big events". This is an account of the fortunes of a newly-prosperous family, who had made their fortunes as lawyers, drawn from an unusually complete collection of their correspondence. The correspondence deals with many matters of money and litigation. They w...
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