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How, in times gone by, did they live - the
ordinary people of England?
It is unlikely that we shall ever have a better
answer to this question than Trevelyan's
English Social History, in which a great liberal
historian set down all that he had been able to
discover of the daily, unspectacular, but
endlessly fascinating life of English people
between the Middle Ages and Victorian times.
The illustration of this classic work with
pictures from contemporary English sources
(so far as was possible) perfectly rounded off
a historical record which is as scholarly as it
is attractive.
This 'history of a people with the politics left
out' describes their work, their food, their
homes, their clothes, their customs, their
beliefs, their pastimes.
All the original illustrations appear in this
Pelican edition, which is in four volumes.
'A delight to the eye as well as to the mind.
Trevelyan's style is vivid in itself, but with
these...
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Fülszöveg
IMM
published by Penguin Books
How, in times gone by, did they live - the
ordinary people of England?
It is unlikely that we shall ever have a better
answer to this question than Trevelyan's
English Social History, in which a great liberal
historian set down all that he had been able to
discover of the daily, unspectacular, but
endlessly fascinating life of English people
between the Middle Ages and Victorian times.
The illustration of this classic work with
pictures from contemporary English sources
(so far as was possible) perfectly rounded off
a historical record which is as scholarly as it
is attractive.
This 'history of a people with the politics left
out' describes their work, their food, their
homes, their clothes, their customs, their
beliefs, their pastimes.
All the original illustrations appear in this
Pelican edition, which is in four volumes.
'A delight to the eye as well as to the mind.
Trevelyan's style is vivid in itself, but with
these contemporary pictures the whole English
scene of the period comes alive' - John
O'London's
The first volume covers life in Chaucer's
England and under the early Tudors.
The cover shows part of a page of Queen Mary's Psalter,
English, early fourteenth century, in the British Museum
(photo by John Freeman)
For copyright reasons this edition is not for sale in the U.S.A.
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