Series: The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series

An introduction to the everyday lives of medieval European women: how they ate and slept, what their work was like, and the many factors that shaped their experiences. Ordinary people are often hard to see in the historical record. This resource for students reveals the everyday world of the Middle Ages for women: sex, marriage, work, and power. Using scholarship...

Daily Life in the American West explores the lives of a wide range of people who struggled to make a home for themselves in this harsh and unforgiving region. It includes descriptions of how various people lived their daily lives, from nomadic Indian tribes to Chinese immigrants, and from cowboys to city-dwellers. The book conveys how these individual lives are...