![]() ![]() The world of Elton and similar villages is not found in movies or novels. The Gies provide a history of the village concept and its definition its role in the manorial system (contrasted to the seigneurial system) a description of its people, physical structure, buildings, administration and administrators, judicial system, family and spiritual life, and work and the background behind its decline. ![]() Researched and written for the layperson, Life in a Medieval Village is more accurately about life in an English medieval village, with most of the detail coming from the records of Aethelintone/Aethelington/Adelintune/Aylington (Elton) in Huntingdon, one of Ramsey Abbey’s manors. The Gies use a number of primary and secondary sources, the latter of which reveal how the historian’s view of the medieval village has changed in the 20th and 21st centuries and how flexible historians must be in interpreting the evidence. This series rarely touches upon the great people and events romanticized by Hollywood and numerous fiction writers (and perhaps even a few historians), but focuses on the basics of everyday life for the average person or even the average lord or cleric. Life in a Medieval Village is one of a series, including Life in a Medieval City and Life in a Medieval Castle, written by Frances and Joseph Gies. Life in a Medieval Village by Frances and Joseph Gies. Recommended. ![]()
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