Describes customs and activities associated with twelve medieval holidays and festivals, from Twelfth Night through Midsummer Eve and Halloween to Christmas. Also includes recipes and instructions for making banners, decorations, and costumes.

Medieval Holidays and Festivals: A Calendar of Celebrations

Cosman, Madeleine Pelner

Children's Books

Atheneum

Explores every aspect of medieval life as reflected in the food and the eating habits of the Middle Ages, at peasant's board and King's table, and provides recipes for medieval dishes

Fabulous Feasts: Medieval Cookery and Ceremony

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cooking Methods

George Braziller

What did people who lived during the Middle Ages eat? How did they eat? Dr. Cosman proves just how endlessly intriguing the answers to these questions are in this fascinating exploration of medieval food habits in service, table manners, menu, and courtly magnificence. Also provided are tempting recipes for the modern-day host and hostess who would like to delight their guests with a medieval feast. Fabulous Feasts received nominations for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

Fabulous Feasts (Medieval Cookery and Ceremony)

Cooking Education & Reference

George Braziller, Inc.

This book celebrates the vocabulary of the medieval period, the era of European history dating roughly from A.D. 500 to 1500 - one millennium of life, love, food, ideas, medicine, art and war. Over 4,000 words culled from those years are presented in Medieval Wordbook. In Medieval Wordbook you will discover the source of many words and phrases that make up part of our modern vocabulary, for example: corduroy, from the French corde du roi, "cloth of the king," is a ridged silk or cotton fabric; gossip, from the Anglo-Saxon god sib, "sister in God," a friendly woman companion; upper crust, the top crust cut from round loaves of bread presented to the noble guests at feasts; and riggamarole, a meaningless recitation of words, as in the 13th-century Scottish ragman's role, a reluctant pledge of allegiance to the English king. Medieval Wordbook makes an interesting and readable companion to medieval history, full of wonderful anecdotes and literary, pictorial and sociological references to everything from merchants and poets to architecture and beer halls. Though formidable in scholarship, this unique work, fully cross-referenced, is friendly to the reader.

Medieval Wordbook

History

Americas

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Explores the lives of medieval women, including the many trades they pursued, the rewards they attained by their labor, and the dangers they faced on the job.

Women at Work in Medieval Europe

Europe

Collects over 4,000 terms used in the Middle Ages, including expressions from art and architecture, science and medicine, literature and law, liturgy and ceremony, sex, costumes, cookery, religion, warfare, and other realms.

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Book by David, Rosalie, Foster, Lynn V., Cosman, Madeleine Pelner, Jones, Linda Gale, Deal, William E., Aguilar-Moreno, Manuel

Handbook to Life

Adkins, Lesley

David, Rosalie

Sider, Sandra

Aguilar-Moreno, Manuel

McIntosh, Jane

Adkins, Roy A.

Bertman, Stephen

Deal, William E.

Jones, Linda Gale

Foster, Lynn V.

Teen & Young Adult

A fifteenth-century instruction book for women provides an inside look at life in medieval France and discusses the role of women on each economic level

A Medieval Woman's Mirror of Honor: The Treasury of the City of Ladies

Literature & Fiction

Christine, De Pisan

History & Criticism

Bard Hall Pr

Advises unemployed college graduates how to assess their career goals, analyze their job skills, and identify compatible occupations

Kissing the Dragon: The Intelligent Work-Hunter's Companion

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

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