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Every One a Witness, the Plantagenet Age
Arthur Finley Scott
其他書名
Commentaries of an Era
出版White Lion Publishers, 1975
主題History / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralSocial Science / Customs & Traditions
ISBN07274004019780727400406
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=DIlnAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"The Plantagenet Age is an exuberant portrait of England during an exuberant era, spanning three centuries, from the coronation in 1154 of Henry II, one of the nation's greatest monarchs, to the death in 1485 on Bosworth's bloody field of Richard III, last of the Plantagenet line. This was an era of great events—of Becket's murder and the signing of the Magna Carta, of the Crusades and the Wars of the Roses, of the triumphs at Crécy and Agincourt—as well as of memorable personalities: of Richard the Lionhearted, Warwick the Kingmaker, Edward the Black Prince, and of Geoffrey Chaucer, poet; William Caxton, printer, and Roger Bacon, monk, philosopher, and supposed necromancer. Drawing on original source materials, including manuscripts, letters, and official documents, as well as the literature and chronicles of the age, A. F. Scott has re-created these years as they were experienced by the people who actually lived through them. Individual chapters are devoted to royalty, family life, food and drink, dress, education, sports and pastimes, religion, warfare, and other facets of the daily life of the time—all in the words of the people at the time. The focus throughout is on the concrete and particular, not the abstract and the general. Here they are—the men and women of the Plantagenet Age—real people, as they really lived."-Publisher.