European Customs And Manners PDF Download

This work is a vivid and faithful description of the Manners and Customs of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. In writing this work, the author has practically depended on the prevailing art during the periods under study. Art tells us about the life of our ancestors. As such, the contemporary art and the Manners and Customs of the period are two inseparable things. Both entwine one another, and become complete one by the other. The reader will observe that the public and private customs offer a curious mixture of barbarism and civilization during the period under study. Barbarian, Roman, and Christian customs and character are mixed up in the same society, and very often in the same individuals. Apart from feudalism, the counter of dealers, fairs and markets, manufactures, commerce, industry and fashion and dress will attract the attention of the reader in this work. The author has taken great pains in reproducing by means of strict facsimiles the engraving and chromo-lithography pertaining to the Middle Ages, and the rarest engravings of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as well as the most precious miniatures of the manuscripts preserved in principal libraries of Europe. This has not made it easier to understand the subject under study more intimately but has also added the beauty and value of the book. The detailed introduction by the Editor provides added and latest information about the subject under study. It is hoped that the book and the subject would be of greatest interest, not only to the man of science and students of European history, but to the common man of the world also. Besides, the way the book has been produced; it can be an excellent coffee table book.