Analyzes family life in the Middle Ages focusing on the contrasts between the family in the Medieval West, the Byzantine East, the Islamic world, and the Jewish

From bestselling historians Frances and Joseph Gies, authors of the classic "Medieval Life" series, comes this compelling, lucid, and highly readable account of

"A great virtue of this reader is the length of its selections--not just snippets, but long enough portions for students to get a real sense of how the text wor

This book presents a synthetic history of the family--the most basic building block of medieval Jewish communities--in Germany and northern France during the Hi

A collection of essays by Michael Sheehan, whose work and interpretation on medieval property, marriage, family, sexuality, and law has insprired scholars for 4